Showing posts with label Triassic Period. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Triassic Period. Show all posts
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Journeys in the Back of Beyond: Wait, This is a National Park?

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  Pack up your stuff kids! We're going to a NATIONAL PARK! Cool! Does it have big mountains? No. Oh, does it have deep canyons? No. Can ...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

A Look Back at Ten Years of Geotripping: I toured a marble quarry on Vancouver Island; It's almost as if they didn't want us to see the rocks.

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I've been digging through the archives of Geotripper on the occasion of my tenth anniversary of geoblogging, looking for some of my fav...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Dreams of Summer: This is Where and When...Wait, They Made a National Park Out of This?

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Why, yes. Yes they did. About two posts ago , I pointed out that there are some places where the geology is kind of...monotonous. One of t...
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Monday, July 13, 2015

I Toured a Marble Quarry on Vancouver Island: It's almost as if they didn't want us to see the rocks

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So, I'm out on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, enjoying my vacation with Mrs. Geotripper, and we're casting about trying to fi...
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Bizarro Rocks Day and a Roadrunner

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We were on the road this weekend, attending the fall meeting of the Far Western Section of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. ...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Time Beyond Imagining - A Brief History of the Colorado Plateau: The Real Jurassic Parks

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As we move forward in time, we reach the geologic period called the Jurassic , one of the few units of the geologic time scale that is fami...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Time Beyond Imagining - A Brief History of the Colorado Plateau: Into the Triassic

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The first period in the Mesozoic Era is the Triassic, which lasted from about 245 to around 200 million years ago. The world's continen...
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