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https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/08/great-and-inexpensive-opportunity-to.html Geotripper: A Great (and Inexpensive) Opportunity to tour some of California's Most Incredible... The Far Western Section of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers would like to extend an invitation to all geologists, teachers, ... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/12/another-friday-mystery-post.html?showComment=1291412698092 Geotripper: Another Friday Mystery Post I'm on the road again today, seeking out the mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything, and I have my towel in hand (literary allusion)... geotripperanotherfridaymysterypost https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2013/12/four-terrifying-pictures-from-northern.html Geotripper: Four Terrifying Pictures from Northern California Here are a couple of scenes from our road trip this Christmas. Does the tagline seem a bit incendiary? It should be. Sure, there are three... geotripperfourterrifyingpicturesnorthern https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/01/vagabonding-across-39th-parallel-hoodoo_09.html Geotripper: Vagabonding Across the 39th Parallel: Hoodoo Homily, A Land of Glowing Rocks It's the third Hoodoo Homily (and now that I'm here there will be a fourth, probably). We had reached the two week point of our vagabonding ... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/04/stuff-we-never-talk-about.html Geotripper: The Stuff We Never Talk About... I am often asked if I have run across strange phenomena in my travels. My journeys take me to many different places and environments, and fr... the stuffgeotrippernevertalk https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/04/other-california-wandering-volcano-and.html Geotripper: The Other California: A Wandering Volcano and a Floral Outburst I can still be astounded.... There are lots of things I haven't seen and done in my life, but I can imagine what it is going to be like to... the other californiageotripperwanderingvolcanofloral https://geotripperbirds.blogspot.com/2016/09/snowy-egret-on-csu-stanislaus-campus.html Geotripper's California Birds: Snowy Egret on the CSU Stanislaus Campus What a treat last night! I'm back to work teaching classes, including an evening course at CSU Stanislaus. There's a large pond behind my ... california birdssnowy egreton thegeotripper https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2018/01/ Geotripper: January 2018 News and views from the geologic realm geotripperjanuary https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/03/incredible-new-research-in-central.html?showComment=1207086060000 Geotripper: Incredible New Research in Central California Could something like this be in our future? A new paper being published tomorrow in the Journal of California Geophysics by Pompilius Eostu... new researchgeotripperincrediblecentralcalifornia https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/06/rigors-of-routine-life-ii-on-other-hand.html Geotripper: The Rigors of the Routine Life II: On Other Hand, Your Brain Will Shrivel Up... A couple of seemingly unrelated things caught my eye yesterday. First, it is the 30th anniversary of the release of my favorite film of all ... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2026/05/george-lucas-had-it-wrong-day-of.html Geotripper: George Lucas Had It Wrong. A Day of Intense Pride at Modesto Junior College Yesterday Going to hyperspace? Not exactly... George Lucas had it wrong. No, I'm not talking about the prequels to Star Wars ! It was something much e... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-dangerous-than-cocaine.html?showComment=1273766313189 Geotripper: More Dangerous Than Cocaine... Just a short thought tonight... If you haven't seen it, check out this video of the BP oil leak, via Deep Sea News (if it isn't showing rig... geotripperdangerouscocaine https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2015/08/vagabonding-on-dangerous-ground-into_6.html Geotripper: Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Into the Realm of the Devil (and Sea Lions) Ocean waves are powerful. Extremely powerful. Waves are one of the few erosional processes that operate within a time frame that can be p... on dangerous ground https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/06/secrets-of-trade-how-geologists-find.html Geotripper: Secrets of the Trade: How Geologists Find Features in the Field Ever wonder how geologists find those really cool features and faults that we are always discovering? Here, from a few cherished trips to t... of thefind featuresgeotrippersecretstrade https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/03/incredible-new-research-in-central.html?showComment=1207115880000 Geotripper: Incredible New Research in Central California Could something like this be in our future? A new paper being published tomorrow in the Journal of California Geophysics by Pompilius Eostu... new researchgeotripperincrediblecentralcalifornia https://arizonageology.blogspot.com/2009/01/geotripper-blog-from-black-mesa.html Arizona Geology: Geotripper blog from Black Mesa MJC, who blogs at Geotripper , has been posting in recent weeks from Cretaceous locales on the Colorado Plateau. His new one from the Blac... from blackarizonageologygeotripperblog https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2015/12/dreams-of-summer-and-southwest-travels.html Geotripper: Dreams of Summer and Southwest Travels: Hole in the Wall, Mojave National Preserve Christmas is over and suddenly the snow and blizzards aren't so fun any more. I find myself dreaming of warmer places and times, including... hole in the wall https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/05/whats-missing-from-this-picture-only.html?showComment=1336805447845 Geotripper: What's Missing From This Picture? Only a billion years or so... Geology is good for perspective. The bookends of this particular day: the very very long hour spent trying to restart a dead car in a rem... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/07/something-doesnt-feel-right-about-this.html Geotripper: Something Doesn't Feel Right About This: The Serpentine Issue in California The more I read about this, the more disturbed I become. Andrew Alden gets right to the point about the very strange goings-on in the Califo... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/06/ten-overrated-places-to-see-before-you.html?showComment=1277757744718 Geotripper: Ten Overrated Places to See Before You Die...Part One I am about to kick a hornet's nest, more or less just for the fun of it. There are so many places to see in the world, and lots of lists and... places to seebefore yougeotrippertenoverrated https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2024/11/in-heart-of-devil-damning-of-del-puerto.html Geotripper: In the Heart of the Devil: The Damning of Del Puerto Canyon This beautiful canyon is under serious threat California geology is complicated. Unlike any other state, it is affected by the interactions... in the heartdel puertogeotripperdevildamning https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/09/done-with-domes-accretionary-wedge-13.html Geotripper: Done With Domes: Accretionary Wedge #13 This month's Accretionary Wedge is hosted by Goodschist , and includes a great topic, "Geologeeeeee in Spaaaaaaaace!" I have noticed that s... accretionary wedgegeotripperdonedomes https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2009/08/hoodoos-redux-what-im-reading.html Geotripper: Hoodoos Redux: What I'm Reading With my last post on hoodoos at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks and the distinctive landforms to be found there, it is mere coincidence that I am r... i mgeotripperhoodoosreduxreading https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/12/accretionary-wedge-carnival-41-geology.html Geotripper: Accretionary Wedge Carnival #41: Geology in Progress...the night I got in big trouble OK, not that kind of trouble. I wasn't falling off a cliff or getting buried in earthquake rubble or anything like that. I wasn't swallowed... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/03/strangers-in-strange-land-or-maybe.html Geotripper: Strangers in a Strange Land; or maybe the opposite Which of the two pictures below is more strange? Which has creatures that are more out of place? I know that my series on Strangers in a S... strangers in a strange landor maybegeotripperopposite https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2016/01/dreams-of-summer-if-theres-little.html Geotripper: Dreams of Summer: If there's a Little Colorado River, is there a Little Grand Canyon? In the last post , I noted that there is a lot more to the Colorado Plateau than the Grand Canyon. The Canyon (it just has to be capitaliz... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/12/dispatches-from-road-cold-white.html Geotripper: Dispatches from the Road: Cold White Volcanoes and Fiery Red Sunsets Mostly a day on the highway, making the 400 mile long drive from Tucson to the Grand Canyon. Didn't stop for photos at all, really, except f... from the roadcold white https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/ Geotripper: 2012 News and views from the geologic realm geotripper https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/10/he-thought-his-had-exploded-it-hadnt.html Geotripper: He thought his had exploded. It hadn't, yet. Gallows humor is a tricky thing. Something about this event having happened in 1925 provides some emotional distance perhaps, but someone di... geotripperthoughtexplodedyet https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/06/world-in-water-droplet-sundays-shot-was.html?showComment=1275930031513 Geotripper: The World in a Water Droplet: Sunday's Shot was a Snap It didn't take long for Eric and most of the others to figure out the location of Sunday's Snapshot . It is indeed at Yosemite (and come on... the worldin awater droplet https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/09/vagabonding-across-39th-parallel-canyon.html?showComment=1315896074883 Geotripper: Vagabonding across the 39th Parallel: A Canyon Along The Colorado River? Really? Photo by Mrs. Geotripper A few weeks ago I was writing about my summer vagabonding along the 39th parallel as if it were a fresh memory ... https://geotripperbirds.blogspot.com/2020/05/ohmigosh-its-happened-blue-grosbeak-on.html Geotripper's California Birds: Ohmigosh It's Happened! A Blue Grosbeak on the Tuolumne River Trail! Sometimes there are just eerie little things about birdwatching. I'd think it was almost supernatural, but I think it has more to do with ... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-first-stage-of-our-journey-basic.html Geotripper: The First Stage of our Journey: Basic Principles We are into our third day on our journey through the Colorado Plateau, and yesterday we actually reached the plateau. We needed to get ou... the first stageour journeygeotripperbasicprinciples https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2023/09/ Geotripper: September 2023 News and views from the geologic realm geotripperseptember https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-geology-and-earth-sciences-count.html Geotripper: Why Geology and the Earth Sciences Count: Teaching at a Community College So what was Geotripper doing providing advice on human relationships on a geology blog yesterday? Randy got it exactly right, I was teachin... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2009/10/world-is-going-to-end-in-2012-uhrandom.html?showComment=1258048490637 Geotripper: The World is Going to End in 2012! Uh...Random Thoughts for Earth Science Week "But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronom... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/03/lazy-professors.html Geotripper: Lazy Professors? Thanks to Charles Carrigan at Earth-like Planet for pointing out this opinion piece in the Washington Post . As he makes very clear, the a... geotripperlazyprofessors https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2022/01/ Geotripper: January 2022 News and views from the geologic realm geotripperjanuary https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/01/other-california-for-time-it-was-black.html Geotripper: The Other California: For a time it was the Black Golden State Talking about oil drilling in California...is that like kicking a beehive? Picture of beehive in an old oil well taken by Mrs. Geotripper... the other california https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/04/tale-of-two-slides-mass-wasting-in.html Geotripper: A Tale of Two Slides: Mass Wasting in the Yosemite Region First-time visitors to Yosemite Valley who enter the park via Highway 140 from Mariposa are treated with views of a spectacular river canyo... a tale of two https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/12/from-new-great-valley-museum-learning.html Geotripper: From the New Great Valley Museum: Learning from a different perspective (many of them) I took a few hours away from grading final exams to get some training at the Great Valley Museum's new facility that will take up most of ... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2020/03/ Geotripper: March 2020 News and views from the geologic realm geotrippermarch https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2015/05/hitting-trail-for-few-days.html Geotripper: Hitting the Trail for a Few Days After a flurry of posts this week, I got kind of close to finishing my series on the most dangerous plate boundary, but school is out, and... the trailgeotripperhittingdays https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2020/11/ Geotripper: November 2020 News and views from the geologic realm geotrippernovember https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/03/beyond-dreams-of-avaricesierra-gold.html Geotripper: Beyond the Dreams of Avarice...Sierra Gold The Fricot Nugget (California State Mineral and Mining Museum, Mariposa, CA) Some more fallout from my field trip last weekend in the southe... the dreamsgeotripperbeyondavaricesierra https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2015/08/vagabonding-on-dangerous-ground-into.html Geotripper: Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Into the Land of Sand and Exploding Whales The Cascadia Subduction Zone has raised mountains. The entire length of the convergent boundary, from California to British Columbia is ma... on dangerous ground https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2009/06/puu-oo-big-picture.html Geotripper: Pu'u O'o: the Big Picture More details to follow about the Pu'u O'o flow, but going through my pictures, I discovered that I had a single shot that included the enti... the biggeotripperpupicture https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/07/other-california-ca-state-mineral.html Geotripper: The Other California: The CA State Mineral Museum - this is art, darnit! I know it when I see it. Purveyors of that which we would not call art would use shiny perfect minerals that would cause the viewer to obje... the other californiathis is art https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-living-kaleidoscope-in-red-hills-of.html Geotripper: A Living Kaleidoscope in the Red Hills of the Sierra Nevada Foothills I always thought that kaleidoscopes were named after someone named Kaleid, but the authoritative source (Wikipedia, of course) indicates ... in the red https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-living-kaleidoscope-in-red-hills-of.html?showComment=1459277170901 Geotripper: A Living Kaleidoscope in the Red Hills of the Sierra Nevada Foothills I always thought that kaleidoscopes were named after someone named Kaleid, but the authoritative source (Wikipedia, of course) indicates ... in the red https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-little-rock-mystery-for-day.html?showComment=1443625265995 Geotripper: A Little Rock Mystery for the Day A little rock mystery for the day. What are we looking at, and why is it strange? The picture is about 16 inches across. a littlefor thegeotripperrockmystery https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/07/other-california-baymouth-bars-its-5.html Geotripper: The Other California: Baymouth Bars - It's 5 O'clock Somewhere? It's Friday, the end a long week! I'm home from a four day exploration of the California's North Coast country, and it was...uh...academica... the other california https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/02/other-california-havin-fun-with.html Geotripper: The "Other" California: Havin' Fun With Sasquatch An exploration of the Klamath Mountains of California is not complete without a discussion of...well, let me mention a field trip story. Th... the other californiafun withgeotripperhavinsasquatch https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2013/10/chaos-jumbles-and-crags-of-lassen.html Geotripper: Chaos! The Jumbles and Crags of Lassen Volcanic National Park Lassen Volcanic National Park is one of the lesser-known and less visited of the national parks in California. Many have heard of Lassen P... lassen volcanicgeotripperchaosjumbles https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/08/vagabonding-across-39th-parallel.html Geotripper: Vagabonding across the 39th Parallel: Setting out on the Road The ultimate authority ( Wikipedia, of course ) defines a vagabond as "...an itinerant person. The word is derived from the Latin adjective... setting outgeotrippervagabondingacrossparallel https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/03/incredible-new-research-in-central.html Geotripper: Incredible New Research in Central California Could something like this be in our future? A new paper being published tomorrow in the Journal of California Geophysics by Pompilius Eostu... new researchgeotripperincrediblecentralcalifornia https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/03/picture-of-day-great-outcrop-part-2.html Geotripper: Picture of the Day - A Great Outcrop, Part 2 Today is the broader look at the outcrop in yesterday's post. It doesn't stop with the faults! What the heck is going on with the left side... picture of the daygeotrippergreatpart https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/08/time-beyond-imagining-brief-history-of_09.html Geotripper: Time Beyond Imagining - A Brief History of the Colorado Plateau: On to the Grand... Picture by Susan Hayes I have enjoyed exploring the Grand Canyon on this blog over the last few weeks, using the incredible gorge as an int... a brief history of https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/10/present-day-gondwanaland-forest.html Geotripper: A Present-Day Gondwanaland Forest I am using today's post as a bridge back to my continuing story of the real Jurassic Parks (and Cretaceous Parks) on the Colorado Plat... present daygeotrippergondwanalandforest https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/07/fighting-for-californias-state-rock.html Geotripper: Fighting For California's State Rock: What's Wrong With Senate Bill 624? An analysis of factual errors in Senate Bill 624. Legislators in the Assembly need to hear this in the coming week! Summary: Senate Bill 62... https://geotripperbirds.blogspot.com/2016/08/female-black-chinned-hummingbird-on.html Geotripper's California Birds: Female Black-chinned Hummingbird on the Tuolumne River Female hummingbirds can be hard to tell apart. I'm going with the white eye spot and slightly curved beak to call this one a Black-chinned... california birds https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/10/liken-lichens-lot-latelyfall-report.html Geotripper: Liken' Lichens a Lot Lately...Fall Report from the Sierra Foothills It was a beautiful sparkling clear day following yesterday's storm that dumped 3-4 inches of rain on many parts of Central and Northern Cal... a lot https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/05/another-scene-from-colorado-plateau-for.html Geotripper: Another Scene from the Colorado Plateau, for a Special Day Today's posting is a view of the San Juan Mountains from the campus of Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. It is sort of a transition z... from thecolorado plateaugeotripperanotherscene https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/06/lost-coast-found-and-answer-to-fridays.html?showComment=1307329956677 Geotripper: The Lost Coast Found, and An Answer to Friday's Foto Mystery Actually today's post is the answer to three questions...there's Friday's question , and these: What's the westernmost spot in the contiguou... the lost coast https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-california-whispers-from-past.html Geotripper: The Other California: Whispers from the Past Continuing our exploration of the places to go in California when you've seen all the places on the postcards ...today we visit one of the l... the other californiageotripperwhisperspast https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/06/rigors-of-routine-life-why-i-might-be.html Geotripper: The Rigors of the Routine Life: Why I Might Be a Little Bit Homesick A Friday cat blog, a day late... I remember a sequence in the movie " The Truman Show " when the assembled cast was trying to convince Trum... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-abandoned-landsa-journey-through_16.html Geotripper: The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: A Hell of a Place to Lose... No wonder he abandoned the place...the best that Ebenezer Bryce could say about the national park that now bears his name was "It's a hell... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/10/vagabonding-across-39th-parallel-in_19.html Geotripper: Vagabonding across the 39th Parallel: In the Former Realm of Glaciers...Part II, on... It was the morning of our last day of an all-too-short visit at Rocky Mountain National Park during our vagabonding journey across the 39th ... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2009/10/time-beyond-imagining-end-of-story-or.html Geotripper: Time Beyond Imagining: The End of the Story, or the Beginning? Picking up from the ecologic trauma of my previous post , there was, in fact, a significant addition to the collection of animals living i... end of storygeotrippertimebeyondimagining https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/03/picture-of-day-great-utcrop.html Geotripper: Picture of the Day - A Great Outcrop Death Valley and environs is an unendingly fascinating collection of naked rock exposures. The next post or two concentrates on a particula... picture of the daygeotrippergreat https://geotripperbirds.blogspot.com/2018/10/its-snipe-hunt-i-found-mine-at-san.html Geotripper's California Birds: It's a Snipe Hunt! I Found Mine at the San Joaquin River National... When I was a scout back in another era we often introduced the new guys to our trip by conducting a snipe hunt, chasing imaginary birds w... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/06/world-in-water-droplet-sundays-shot-was.html?showComment=1275974411490 Geotripper: The World in a Water Droplet: Sunday's Shot was a Snap It didn't take long for Eric and most of the others to figure out the location of Sunday's Snapshot . It is indeed at Yosemite (and come on... the worldin awater droplet https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/03/picture-of-day-sierra-nevada-foothills.html Geotripper: Picture of the Day - Sierra Nevada Foothills Spent a third straight weekend with students and fellow geologists in the field. I was pleased with the telephoto that allowed me to get an... picture of the daysierra nevadageotripperfoothills https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/08/sandlots-of-sand.html Geotripper: Sand...Lots of Sand Wrapping up my mini-exploration of the coast of Oregon leads me to the plainest of all subjects: sand. Or maybe not the plainest. We use t... geotrippersandlots https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/06/lost-coast-found-and-answer-to-fridays.html?showComment=1307298260992 Geotripper: The Lost Coast Found, and An Answer to Friday's Foto Mystery Actually today's post is the answer to three questions...there's Friday's question , and these: What's the westernmost spot in the contiguou... the lost coast https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-abandoned-landsa-journey-through_17.html?showComment=1347868532210 Geotripper: The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: 700 years in the Fertile... It's been a bit of time since we checked in on our journey through the Abandoned Lands , my theme for our summer field studies in the geolog... a journey through https://geotripperbirds.blogspot.com/2020/05/an-oddity-at-old-basso-bridge-possible.html Geotripper's California Birds: An Oddity at Old Basso Bridge: A Possible Melanistic Ash-throated... Sometimes one sees the strangest things out there. I was busy social distancing with Mrs. Geotripper up the Tuolumne River a few miles whe... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2012/12/its-dogs-worldand-ours-too.html Geotripper: It's a Dog's World...and Ours, Too A coyote in Yosemite National Park This is a story of the evolutionary journey from the first furry things to Fifi the toy poodle...the ... s adog worldgeotripper https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2009/03/10-things-geology-major-should-know.html Geotripper: 10 Things a Geology Major Should Know (An Alternate View) Callan Bentley at NOVA Geoblog ordered us into a meme on the topic of ten things we think geology majors should know . His rule was that we ... should knowgeotripperthingsgeology https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-greetings-from-mojave-desert.html Geotripper: Christmas Greetings from the Mojave Desert! Not an unknown sight, but rare enough that I have only seen it a few times despite living my early life near by: snow in the western Mojave... christmas greetingsfrom thegeotrippermojavedesert https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/01/photo-of-day.html Geotripper: Photo of the Day Photo of the day.... The "other" Yosemite. Hetch Hetchy Valley was dammed in the early part of the last century over the objections of John ... of thegeotripperphotoday https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2023/ Geotripper: 2023 News and views from the geologic realm geotripper https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/12/tucson-sunset.html?showComment=1230496140000 Geotripper: Tucson Sunset OK, I admit my ignorance...are all Arizona/southwest sunsets like this? I spent a week or so traveling through Grand Canyon, Phoenix, Tucso... geotrippertucsonsunset https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-can-you-tell-its-still-winter-in.html Geotripper: How can you tell it's still winter in Southern California? How can you tell it's still winter in Southern California? There are some definite clues in the picture above, though you may have to look ... how cantell it https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2009/08/gsa-subaru-minority-student-scholarship.html Geotripper: GSA-Subaru Minority Student Scholarship Deadline Approaching Subaru of America, Inc., in partnership with GSA, has funded a scholarship program to benefit undergraduate minorities considering a degree ... student scholarshipgeotrippergsasubaruminority https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-other-california-biggest-living.html?showComment=1650170752176 Geotripper: The Other California: The Biggest Living Things and the Deepest Canyon in the U.S.... Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks were established 50 years apart (1890 and 1940), and they preserve different aspects of the Sierr... the other california https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2009/11/california-has-her-faults-field-trip.html Geotripper: California Has Her Faults: A Field Trip along the San Andreas Fault System We are well into the fall, but California weather is, well, really nice (and please use the word "drought" quietly around here; it is a tou... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-first-day-of-summer.html Geotripper: My First Day of "Summer"... Well, this is what a "compressed academic schedule" looks like...my first day of summer employment hiatus. A few years back the school want... my first daygeotrippersummer https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-story-can-single-rock-tell-day-in.html?showComment=1290780551546 Geotripper: What Story Can a Single Rock Tell? A Day in the Coast Ranges Meet my new deskcrop! I was out on the last field trip of the year, a journey through the Diablo Range to the San Andreas fault and Pinnacl... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/02/picture-of-day-airliner-chronicles-part.html Geotripper: Picture of the Day - The Airliner Chronicles Part 10 Back to the air...sorry, no context for this one, because United doesn't provide a GPS tracker. I can only say it was in northern Canada so... picture of the daygeotripperairlinerchroniclespart https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2013/06/yeah-im-still-here-and-there-and.html Geotripper: Yeah, I'm Still Here (and there, and everywhere): SUPER MOON! 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... here and therei mgeotripperyeahstill https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2020/02/ Geotripper: February 2020 News and views from the geologic realm geotripperfebruary https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/03/incredible-new-research-in-central.html?showComment=1207060560000 Geotripper: Incredible New Research in Central California Could something like this be in our future? A new paper being published tomorrow in the Journal of California Geophysics by Pompilius Eostu... new researchgeotripperincrediblecentralcalifornia https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2013/12/accretionary-wedge-63-and-berry-go.html Geotripper: Accretionary Wedge #63 AND Berry Go Round, Two Blog Carnivals and One Post on Serpentine I don't usually post two blogs in one day, but the latest Accretionary Wedge deadline is approaching, and I'll be on the road again, doing ... https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2009/10/senator-mccain-joins-governor-jindal-in.html Geotripper: Senator McCain joins Governor Jindal in Geologic Ignorance Senator (and would-have-been president) John McCain twitters today that the #1 most egregious example of government waste is the expenditu... geotrippersenatormccainjoinsgovernor https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2013/11/need-geo-pictures-for-that-end-of.html Geotripper: Need Geo-Pictures for that End of Semester Project? Check out Geotripper Images! Active basalt lava flow at Kalapana on the Big Island of Hawai'i Every so often I want to remind you all that I have collected a lot of ... end of semester https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2016/01/dreams-of-summer-going-underground-on.html Geotripper: Dreams of Summer: Going Underground on New Mexico's Continental Divide When one thinks of the Continental Divide, one might imagine high peaks of the Rocky Mountains, piercing the sky with glacially carved ri... going underground https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-fossil-day-during-earth-science.html Geotripper: It's Fossil Day during Earth Science Week! It's the first ever National Fossil Day , and I feel inclined to repost my blog entry of March 27, 2008 ... This is another of those maybe ... earth sciencegeotripperfossildayweek https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2008/01/picture-of-day-airliner-chronicles-part_22.html Geotripper: Picture of the Day - The Airliner Chronicles Part 5 One more Cascades photo; one that mystifies me a little bit, as I am unfamiliar with the territory...I am wondering if anyone has a clear i... picture of the daygeotripperairlinerchroniclespart https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-other-california-yokohl-valley.html Geotripper: The Other California: Yokohl Valley Drive in the Southern Sierra Nevada...and a "Blank... To be clear, the "blank spot" on the map is MY blank spot, not the cartographer's. For all the geological explorations I've been documenti...