Posts treating: "Mesa Verde"
Sunday, 24 May 2015
This plant fossils are on display
at the Mesa Verde National Park as of August 2014.
The area is
rich in geological history going back 2 billion years. The national park
was founded in 1906 to protect the Anasazi Native American sites found
on the mesa tops, cliffs, and canyons. The exposed areas found in the
park are from the Mesozoic Era, Cretaceous Period (about 100-78
Our exploration of America's Never Never included a lot of destinations: Zion, Bryce, Arches, Black Canyon, Mesa Verde and many others. But what is the value of seeing specific points in a landscape without seeing the lands between? Sometimes I have to convince my students that sleeping while traveling between incredible places causes us to miss the context of each of our stops (don't look
Hey world! I'm still here...and there...and it feels like everywhere, and we are having a great time exploring the geology of the Colorado Plateau. This has been one of our cooler trips ever, with spring-like temperatures (and windstorms), so we are enjoying it as much as possible. Since the last post, we've been to Grand Canyon, Cedar Mesa, Mesa Verde, Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef
We'd been on the road for a while, back in June of 2012. Our tour of the Abandoned Lands had taken us on a grand loop that included Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, the pueblos of New Mexico, the Jemez Caldera, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Arches, Canyonlands, and Bryce Canyon National Park. 35 of us had been living as a slightly dysfunctional family for the last 15 days, with all the
Most visitors to Mesa Verde National Park go there to see the spectacular cliff dwellings that are preserved in the sandstone alcoves. But these sandstones and the entire landscape tell an interesting geologic story as well. It may be a stretch to say that if there were no cliff dwellings on Mesa Verde that visitors would still go there. But the view from the top of the mesa is world-class and a little knowledge of the rocks brings another learning dimension to the locality. In July of this [...]
Yeah, there are never any hazards on the road...
Things like fatal car accidents that tie up remote highways for hours, lost students (not for too long this time around), injuries, heat exhaustion, and tourists...
Today we were exploring the Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park. It was hot, very hot, and there were some stiff breezes blowing. The soil here is as
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