Geotripper

Senate Bill 624 in the California legislature calls for serpentine to be removed as the state rock of California. The bill is in the Assembl...

A geologist, a biologist and a pair of lawyers were out in a boat fishing one day. The lawyers were arguing back and forth about a case they...

As the California legislature prepares to vote on Senate Bill 624, it is important that our senators and assembly members know that issue i...

Oh, the power of words. What do you think of when you hear words like lobbyist , deadly, carcinogen, asbestos, toxic , no safe level of expo...

( Update : I've removed the original first paragraph of this post. I wrote it in response to a post elsewhere that has since been remove...

California's state flower, the Golden Poppy, grows on serpentine soils at Hells Hollow on Highway 49 in California's Mother Lode. F...

An analysis of factual errors in Senate Bill 624. Legislators in the Assembly need to hear this in the coming week! Summary: Senate Bill 62...

Many thanks to Sheril Kirshenbaum at Discover Blogs (the Intersection) for posting this important development in the effort to maintain se...

Two of the strangest days in my life happened this week, awoke one morning to find the serpentine story on the AP wires all across the coun...

It's a teachable moment; our state rock has value and is worth keeping . The following is a study of serpentine/peridotite landscapes as...

My Grandfather was a proud and hardworking man. When the dustbowl overwhelmed so many in Oklahoma, he moved the family to Texas, and in 1943...

There is nothing quite like exploring the serpentine belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills in spring time. Few plants can adapt to the nutrie...

A new picture of California's serpentinite landscapes . Today's picture includes some springtime poppies on an outcrop of the state ...

Serpentinite (the rock composed of serpentine) is many things to many people. To geologists it is a clue to understanding the deep interior...

The California State Legislature is about to make a mistake that will harm earth science education, and may inadvertently cost the state, co...

I seriously can't believe that with all the crap going on in the California state legislature over the budget, which does in fact have a...