Geotripper

I've been visiting Florence, Oregon for a number of years, and it is a beautiful place. The Siuslaw River reaches the sea near the tow...

In our last post, we had a look at the "carpeted" dunes of Florence , the ridges of wind-blown sand along the coast that have b...

So how about this plush carpeting on a sand dune? What? It doesn't look like a sand dune? Some people are such skeptics....let's f...

In the photo above we're on a hill overlooking the Siuslaw River near Florence, Oregon. From this point of view the river looks huge a...

The gloom and the rain cleared out for our last night in Oregon, and we were treated to a gorgeous sunset. We had a clear horizon to the w...

To a child who was raised along the beaches of Southern California, the Oregon coast comes as quite a shock. Beaches to me were places lik...

Or maybe, more properly, the beginning of fifty miles of sand. It's generally moving south from this point. The west coast of North ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone has raised mountains. The entire length of the convergent boundary, from California to British Columbia is ma...