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Vernal Fall in Yosemite and a Sense of Scale (or, How to Feel Very Small) 

It's a sense of scale that helps us keep perspective. I was at Washburn Point in Yosemite National Park today, and I took a few shots with the zoom of the same spot across the way. We have a bunch of people apparently enjoying themselves on a flat slab of rock next to a fair sized river. But why the fence? Why aren't they letting people cool their feet in the river on this reasonably warm

Friday fold: dinner plate 

The Friday fold appears on a flat slab along Maryland's Billy Goat

AGU's Outstanding Student Paper Awards 

The weekly geo-newspaper Eos reports Arizona geoscience students were among those who received Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco last DecemberSeismologyChristine Gans, University of Arizona, Tucson, Imaging the flat slab beneath the SierrasPampeanas, Argentina, using receiver function analysis: Evidence for overthickened subducted