Posts treating: "national monument"
Friday, 05 June 2015
The National Park Service issued a news release this afternoon in response to an internet claim that a steam cloud was produced by Sunset Crater near Flagstaff. NPS stated "...no activity has been observed on the ground by park rangers staffing the National Monument."
We're in contact with the NPS, National Forest, National Weather Service, county officials and no one has seen any evidence
It's one thing to find that a number of fish species survive within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park, which preserves the hottest and driest desert in North America. But sure, springs will persist in many dry environments. But a permanent, year-round waterfall? Yes, there is one in Death Valley National Park.
When Death Valley was changed from a national monument to a
Bear Gulch Cave at Pinnacles National Park
California's Coast Ranges hide some real gems (literally: check out benitoite, for instance). One of my favorites is also the nation's newest national park: Pinnacles National Park. The park was first established as a national monument by Teddy Roosevelt in 1908, and given national park status in 2013.
The park preserves the spire-like remains of
Good morning everyone! With another weekend on the horizon, here’s something fun you can plan for in the coming weeks—the 2014 Big Water Dinosaur Festival! “The Big Water Dinosaur Festival is celebrating the many past and ongoing dinosaur fossil discoveries in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and other areas surrounding Big Water, UT. The
Written In Stone...seen through my lens [2012-12-31 12:26:00]
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Quaternary,Cambrian,Jurassic
Anyone and everyone that blogs knows the challenges. What shall I post about next? What should I say? Is the subject important? Will anyone read it? What photographs should I use? Do they convey the best image possible? There are many photographs that never get the Blogger "Publish" button. So, it is with this final post of the year that I contribute a few 2012 photos from here and there that never quite made it.JanuaryThis massive, foot-long clast of Westboro Formation quartzite is [...]
What happens when you take an arid landscape with faulting and high relief, add in some loosely consolidated poorly sorted sedimentary and volcanic rocks, and add yearly monsoon flashfloods? You get the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks, a national monument located in New Mexico on the Cochiti Pueblo at the western edge of the Rio Grande Rift. This was the location of yesterday's mini-quiz, as noted
I have flown a lot over the course of my life, probably more than most folks who don't have to travel for a job. I have always loved occupying the window seat. Being able to look down at buildings and cars and the landscape was always magical, but it wasn't until getting into geology that I began to really appreciate flying in a window seat. Seeing geologic structures from the air makes me feel like a superhero (Geology Girl! photographing plunging synclines in a single shot!), so [...]
The proposal to create a Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument has newspapers in the region weighing in with some more nuanced and thoughtful discussions than we often see in likely contentious issues like this. [Right, view of proposed monument area. Credit, Steve Bridgehouse, as posted on the Sierra Club site]
The St. George (Utah) News starts off with the statement, "For well over
Last summer I finally had the chance to visit Devils Postpile National Monument in California. While everyone shares their photos of the iconic columnar basalt at the park, a different location caught my attention on the park map: “Soda Springs.” … Continue reading
WATCH FOR ROCKS - Travels of a Sharp-Eyed Geologist [2012-01-23 00:31:13]
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(63 visits) Jurassic,Triassic
It can’t be helped. During the winter I find myself drawn to all sorts of hidden corners of the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve. If you have ever been to southern Utah you will understand why. Yellow Knolls In the Red Cliffs Desert ReserveYou can swing a cat from atop the cliffs of nearby Zion National Park and it will most likely land somewhere in the Desert Reserve. That relatively short distance translates into the same rock formations outcropping in both Zion and the Desert Reserve. I’m [...]
Traveling from here to there; sought a way to Tuscon without having to go through Phoenix and found Highway 85 to Interstate 8, a route that took us right through one of our nation's youngest national monuments, Sonoran Desert National Monument.
The park, administered by the Bureau of Land Management, has not been developed to any degree, and a large portion is designated wilderness. There is
The USGS has issued a new report on the geology, geochemistry, and groundwater of Montezuma Well, the eponymous center of a national monument but they acknowledge that more information on the geology, surface water, and groundwater flow is needed to test the conceptual ideas they have on how the system operates."The source of water to Montezuma Well, a flowing sinkhole in a desert setting,
I apologize for my recent absence - I am now a mom!Back to Spineless things... I am currently working on unwrapping a series of fossils collected in Morocco. You may have seen some of these featured on the cover of Nature or in the New York Times. Ever specimen I unwrap is somehow new and exciting; it's like Christmas in March! All kinds of new research is being done with these specimens, but one aspect that I find especially important is the value of these lagerstätte. Now you may be [...]
It didn't take folks very long to figure out that Tuesday's mystery photo was taken in the vicinity of Devils Postpile at the national monument of the same name. Devils Postpile is justly famous as a stunning example of columnar jointing in a volcanic rock, and the vertical columns seen here are relatively rare around the world (Devils Tower in Wyoming and the Giants Causeway in Ireland
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The skulls of Utah’s prehistoric lizards keep rolling out of the country’s largest national monument with the two newest ones so unusual that when unveiled this week, their discovery will have a global impact.
That was the message during last week’s lecture from paleontologist Scott Sampson, author, research curator for the Utah Museum of Natural History
The base of the Chinle Formation is well exposed in Canyon DeChelly National Monument just outside of Chinle, Arizona. Here the Chinle fills paleovalleys incised into Permian-age rocks, in this case the aeolian DeChelly Sandstone. The only trail accessible in the monument is the White House Trail, which leads down to abandoned ancient puebloan indian sites on the valley floor and in the
We spent much of June exploring both front and back county areas of the Grand Staircase NM. Our journeys took us from Bryce Canyon to the Circle Cliffs. This is an amazing country and we are so fortunate that much of it is protected as a national monument.However, it appears, to me anyway, that much of the interpretation of the natural world is done by biologists. We visited Bryce Canyon with
One of the neat things about Los Alamos is that Bandelier National Monument is only a few minutes away. Bandelier is named for the volcanic tuff that was erupted from the Valles caldera about 1.25 million years ago, but it's not just a site of geologic interest; it's also an archaeological site.
On the drive to the park visitor center, there's some fantastic columnar jointing in the tuff.
We camped for 12 nights, visited 3 National parks, 2 wilderness areas and one fantastic national monument. We hiked about 80 miles and rode bikes for an additional 130 miles using some single track and lots of remote desert jeep tracks. We were also able to enjoy the melt water from an above average snow pack in Central Utah. A few of the canyons we visited sported full on rivers that felt
In the spring of 2009, the United States government added a 280-million-year-old fossil site to its list of national monuments: a 5,280-acre parcel of land in southern New Mexico that will be called Paleozoic Trackways National Monument. The national park, which has been studied by scientists and quarried by amateurs since the late 1980s, will
