Showing posts with label Lassen Peak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lassen Peak. Show all posts
Friday, September 15, 2023

A California Love Letter: It's the Best Geology to be Found Anywhere!

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This is the second of some resource materials I have on our college website that are being removed, so I wanted to preserve them. The follow...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Want to See Some Incredible Volcanoes Up Close? Geology of California's Volcanoes, Sept. 27-Oct. 1, with Modesto Junior College

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I write so much about my travels around the American West and elsewhere, and some might wonder where I find the time. Well...I tend to h...
Friday, July 14, 2017

California's (not) Biggest, (not) Most Recently Active, and (not) Most Dangerous Volcano

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Photo by Mrs. Geotripper Mt. Shasta is no doubt the most dominating volcano in all of California. It's huge, topping out at well ab...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Chasing Volcanoes and Overthrusts: Exploring the Pacific Northwest and the Northern Rocky Mountains

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Mt. Shasta from Interstate 5 in the vicinity of Red Bluff and Corning. Photograph by Mrs. Geotripper A few weeks ago I had the privilege...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

About to Hit the Road Again! There are Volcanoes in my Future

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And it's been way too long locked away in an office and laboratory and lecture hall. I'll be hitting the open road with my student...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The Volcano That Wasn't There, and Two That Were...

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Mt. Shasta and Shastina from the north I hope that your holiday travels were safe and happy. I had a fine time visiting family across th...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Four Terrifying Pictures from Northern California

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Here are a couple of scenes from our road trip this Christmas. Does the tagline seem a bit incendiary? It should be. Sure, there are three...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Mountain That No Climber Can Ever Summit: Mt. Tehama (the Brokeoff Volcano)

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The gigantic boulder is a glacial erratic, left behind by sheets of ice that once covered the Lassen region. After being slightly distra...