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Tuesday, 24 May 2016

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Beatty: Old Buildings, A Fold, and Onward toward Titus Canyon 

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Before a mediocre breakfast with slow service at the casino at the north end of Beatty, I walked around in the early morning light taking various photos of some of the old (and old-styled) buildings. The Sourdough Saloon and Happy Burro sit across the street from the parking lot of the Exchange Club Motel. By the way, you can get a dinner at either place photographed above, and over the

Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Following the Cascadia Subduction Zone on Highway 101 

Geotripper [2015-07-22 05:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info

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Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park at the north end of Highway 101. I'm sure that NO ONE in the various forms of mass media WOULD EVER stoop to using HYPERBOLE to increase their readership/viewership. You know, saying things like "THE BIG ONE IS COMING", that the GIGANTIC TSUNAMI is going to DESTROY EVERYTHING WEST OF I-5, that EVERYONE WILL DIE in the BIG EARTHQUAKE (or at some

El Niño Near Long Valley Creek, Lassen County, CA 

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I've got a few more pictures from that rainy May day, the 21st, when MOH and I were on what was really the first leg of a trip to Colorado and back. A downpour over unnamed hills just off the north end of the Bald Mountain Range and just south of Beckwourth Pass. Photo taken May 21st, 12:44 pm. Looking up Dinwiddie Arm (of Long Valley Creek?) into the area of Roberts and Coulee

Galapagos Wolf Volcano Erupts For First Time In 33 Years 

Volcano Science And News Blog [2015-05-28 00:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (346 visits) info

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The volcanoes of Galapagos have been quiet for a while but that quiet has been ended by a spectacular eruption of Galapagos' Wolf Island Volcano. From images it appears a flank fissure has opened up outside the caldera, issuing fluid pahoeoe lava flows (much in the same style of Hawaiian volcanoes). According to VolcanoDiscovery.com, no wildlife, especially the famed pink iguanas, are threatened by the flowing lava.Google Earth screenshot showing Wolf Volcano in the Galapagos.Image taken from [...]

Eruption update at 15:24 UTC 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [2014-08-31 17:24:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (633 visits) info

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This is a short update on the eruption north of Vatnajökull glacier. The eruption has its origin in Bárðarbunga volcano. This information is going to get outdated quickly. North end of the eruption fissure is in an area … Continue reading

It Was a Devilish Sort of Day 

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Last week when I drove southwest on I-80 through western Nevada, the wind was blowing strongly from the southwest, gusting to 39-44 mph. The drive was challenging (or horrendous, depending on your POV) in a jeep with a metal rack. Dust devil blowing northeast across the north end of Rye Patch Reservoir, probably across the Upper or Lower Pitt-Taylor Reservoir. Even the devils were having

Vancouver Island's West Coast Trail - A Trip Into the Green - Part 3 

Earthly Musings [2013-08-25 19:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
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After a wonderful night at Tsusiat, it was time to hit the trail once again. Right out of the gate, there is this nice ladder complex. I say nice because I loved the ladders on this trail and I think if t-shorts were made for the WCT, they would simply have to be splattered with images of ladders. Most guidebooks talk about the mud but to me the ladders were the treat.At least there are intervening platforms on the way up!I took to taking pictures of the km signs to show what the various [...]

Baker River geology field guide posted 

Northwest Geology Field Trips [2012-12-04 03:09:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info

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After a hike up the Baker River Trail at the north end of the Baker Reservoir, I just had to write it up for the blog. Shuksan Greenschist, waterfalls, an entrenched delta-cum-alluvial fan, exhumed eroded giant tree stumps, and really cool river cobbles, including volcanic breccia from Hannegan caldera. An easy round trip of 5

The Northern San Andreas Fault 

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It's been a while since I paid a visit to the San Andreas fault, but that's what I did today. California's best-known geological feature is peppered with exhibits these days, and today's locality has a formal earthquake trail that runs along the trace of the 1906 surface rupture. I include it in my gallery of the northern part of the fault. This gallery starts at the north end and works down, from the Alder Creek locality on the Pacific coast down to San Juan Bautista, where the 1906 rupture [...]

Germany Valley overlook 

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This past April I took a trip through Virginia and West Virginia exploring some sites that were listed in the book "Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States" by Jasper Burns. In my previous post I showed you some fossils from a roadcut into the Reedsville formation. Across from that roadcut, where I parked my car, is a pull off for an overlook of the Germany Valley. Below is a panorama of the view looking north with east to the right.I found this view to be both peaceful and intriguing as [...]

Delta Growth in Lake Turkana 

Geology.com News [2012-05-01 20:46:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
“The Omo Delta, at the north end of Lake Turkana, a lake now located mainly in Kenya. Left: February 1, 1973. Right: January 24, 2005 to February 12, 2006. In 1973, the delta was contained entirely within the boundaries of Ethiopia. By 2005-2006, the southernmost point of the delta had moved roughly 12 kilometers (7

Assessing rapid erosion after the Horseshoe 2 wildfire 

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Debris flows are a serious hazard after wildfires and AZGS is working with the USGS and Forest Service to develop better predictive techniques and models. AZGS geologists Ann Youberg and Joe Cook recently went back country with Forest Service personnel to Emigrant Canyon at the north end of the Chiricahua Mountains to assess post-fire erosion following the 2011 Horseshoe 2 Fire.The results

The Tohoku Earthquake, a Year Ago Today 

About Geology [2012-03-11 14:36:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
The largest earthquake in Japan's history started at 2:46 on a Friday afternoon, March 11, 2011, and finally stopped shaking several minutes later. Japan's early warning system did its job and so did the nation's well-constructed buildings, which limited the death toll to less than a thousand people. We will never know the exact number, though, because soon afterward gigantic tsunamis erased whole cities up and down the coast of the Tohoku district, the traditional region at the north end of [...]

Backroads: Too Cold to Change a Flat, and other Considerations 

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Upon getting out of the truck at the north end of the Monitor Valley playa, it became rapidly clear to me that it was very cold. (Later, the weather calendar for Eureka showed a max of 28°F and a min of-3°F for the day.) When I pulled off to the side of the road, possibly running over some spiky twigs from the roadside saltbushes, I hoped I wouldn't get a flat tire. I then immediately

The Pontatoc mine in a north Tucson neighborhood 

Wry Heat [2012-01-02 15:43:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (27 visits) info
Sometimes mines just vanish.  Such seems to be the case with the Pontatoc mine located near the north end of Pontatoc Road in Tucson and just south of Pontatoc Ridge.  The map below shows the general location (at the balloon).  The Pontatoc mine was discovered in 1906 and worked until 1917.  It produced about 5,000

历史上8月22日的地震 

GeoIdea [2011-08-19 05:16:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
M8.1 – Queen Charlotte Island, 1949 Canada’s largest historic earthquake since 1700. The shaking was so severe on the Queen Charlotte Islands that cows were knocked off their feet, and a geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada working on the north end of Graham Island could not stand up. Chimneys toppled, and an oil

Details of an Ocean's Birth 

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The Earth's biggest volcanic zone, far outweighing everything else, is the worldwide mid-ocean ridge system. But because it's deep in the middle of the ocean, we can't study it easily. A possible exception is in the African Rift Zone, especially at its north end in Eritrea's Afar region. In the newest issue of Science News magazine, Alexandra Witze presents "Death of a Continent, Birth of an Ocean," an excellent summary of research in Afar in the wake of a recent spreading episode....Read Full [...]
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