Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: Surviving in the Great Rift

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I've been doing this journey through the Abandoned Lands sort of backward...the places we've been exploring, like Acoma , and tod...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: The Rise and Fall of Empires...

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We walked along the pathway, and the only other living thing was a rock wren (I think), perched on the remains of an old wall. It was a pe...
Monday, August 13, 2012

No Meteors, So Some Pictures of a Sunset Instead

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The Great Valley is great sometimes, but not if you want to see astronomical phenomena. We have some of the worst air pollution in the nat...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: Kasha Katuwe Tent Rocks, Erosion in Action

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What happens when you take an arid landscape with faulting and high relief, add in some loosely consolidated poorly sorted sedimentary and...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: I've looked at erosion from both sides now

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I guess I will never be a songwriter for Joni Mitchell. But I like looking at the effects of erosion. Sometimes you see it from above, for...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: There are some who won't give up

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We are back on our journey through the abandoned lands , the geological wonderland of the Colorado Plateau (the journey was in June, but i...