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Posts treating: "Apache Nation"

Tuesday, 17 November 2020

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The Coming Crater in Arizona: The Lame Duck Administration Fast-Tracks Destruction of Sacred Lands 

Geotripper [2020-11-17 04:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
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Sometimes issues keep coming up. I hadn't heard of updates of the Oak Flat Controversy in a couple of years, but with the waning days of the current lame duck administration, the issue has arisen again as the out-going president attempts of fast-track a controversial land swap to enable the opening of a massive copper mine. I posted the following several times as the debates continued over

A Look Back at Ten Years of Geotripping: Arizona is Going to Get Another Meteor Crater, Only Bigger. And We Know Where and Why. 

Geotripper [2018-01-22 03:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (35 visits) info
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I've been commemorating ten years of geoblogging with a trip through the archives, looking for some of my favorites. I posted the following twice, once in in 2015, and again in 2016 because as a political issue it continues to simmer. It was also one of the oddest geological issues I've ever come across. My brother took me to Oak Flat during a visit to the Phoenix area, and it wasn't until

Arizona is Going to Get Another Meteor Crater, Only Bigger. And We Know Where and Why (repost) 

Geotripper [2016-03-12 01:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (659 visits) info

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This is a repeat of a post I wrote in August of last year because the issue is still in the news, and represents a piece of political larceny that should disqualify Senator John McCain from ever being re-elected. Democrat Representative Anne Kirkpatrick shares blame here as well. When I see a representative insisting that a law must be followed ("Rep. Gosar is pressuring the Forest Service

Arizona is Going to Get Another Meteor Crater, Only Bigger. And We Know Where and Why. 

Geotripper [2015-08-02 03:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (654 visits) info

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This is NOT a killer asteroid entering the Earth's atmosphere. It is a sun dog over Oak Flat Campground near Superior, Arizona. Oak Flat is going to become a gigantic crater. Because it won't be a meteor that causes it. It won't be an atomic bomb test. And it won't be because of aliens like those stupid ones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The giant crater will
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