Showing posts with label Proterozoic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Proterozoic. Show all posts
Thursday, March 7, 2013

From Little Treasures Come Big Stories: Travels Through Death Valley National Park

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Photo by Mrs. Geotripper I returned from Death Valley to a load of work back on campus, but over the next few days I'll be posting o...
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Friday, July 6, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: The Seven Stages of Grand Canyon Awareness

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Stage #1: There's a Really Big Canyon Out There! This is a response of those seeing the canyon for the first time. Practically everyo...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

What's Missing From This Picture? Only a billion years or so...

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Geology is good for perspective. The bookends of this particular day: the very very long hour spent trying to restart a dead car in a rem...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Vagabonding across the 39th Parallel: A Canyon Where Cameras Stand Sideways

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You walk to the edge of the precipice, and you lose all sense of proportion. The rocks at your feet drop off in vertical cliffs into the dar...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

The Other California: A Canyon as Deep as the Grand, and a Road for no Reason

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OK, not quite as deep as the Grand, but who's to quibble over a few hundred feet? That's what I love about California: it has a lot...
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Friday, July 4, 2008

Time Beyond Imagining - The Oldest Rocks on the Colorado Plateau

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Looking at the oldest rocks of any region requires that we free ourselves of the present-day geography. In the case of the Colorado Plateau...
Thursday, July 3, 2008

Time Beyond Imagining - An Intro to the Colorado Plateau

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I would like to use a series of posts to illustrate the incredible story revealed in the rocks of the Colorado Plateau where I held class fo...
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