Showing posts with label Lava Beds National Monument. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lava Beds National Monument. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Getting Under the Skin of a Volcano: Travels in Lava Beds National Monument

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What in the world is going on here?? What are these spikes coming out of the ceiling? Is it some kind of deadly trap for Indiana Jones or...
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...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Airliner Chronicles: Do You Know California's Biggest Volcano? You May Be Surprised at the Answer

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The summit complex of Medicine Lake Highland, with Glass Mountain at the top, the Medicine flow center-left, and Medicine Lake at center-r...
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...
Friday, September 23, 2016

The Lake at the End of the World: Tule Lake in Northern California

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Tule Lake is situated at the end of the world. It's not that it's so big that the world seems to end beyond its margins, but somet...
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...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

You've Read About Them: How About Seeing Them in Person? California's Volcanoes Field Studies, Sept. 22-26, 2016

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Mt. Shasta, the second tallest and most voluminous volcano in the Cascades I write so much about my travels around the American West and...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Yesterday's Mystery Rock Explained (Sort of...)

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Yesterday's mystery rock was strange. Had I not been standing on the flanks of the largest volcano in California (and possibly in the ...
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Monday, September 14, 2015

Exploring the Southern Cascade Range or Yosemite National Park for College Credit! Sept. 24-28 and Oct. 9-11

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Captain Jack's Stronghold, where the Modoc people held out for months against U.S. troops. The site is protected today as Lava Beds Na...