En Tequila Es Verdad

Let's have a road trip, shall we? Yes, I do know we were in the middle of Oregon , getting ready to shove our noses against some particu...

I'm not being facetious. I spent a good portion of Sunday reading the pamphlet for the Geologic Map of the Silver Lake Quadrangle, Cowli...

We would have ended the summer adventuring season with a bang if Mount St. Helens had been so kind as to erupt. I used to have a bit of a ...

This post first sailed on the HMS Elitist Bastard , three long years ago, when PZ Myers hosted Carnival of the Elitist Bastards III . I'...

Before Anne Jefferson , floods bored me. I didn't used to put a lot of thought into how rivers overran. I knew the basics: too much wa...

"Make them like me adorers of the good science of rock-breaking," Charles Darwin told Charles Lyell once , long ago. This, from a ...

Yup. Actually, there is. And this is why the announcement that Flood geologists , those poor dumb souls who are so besotted with a Bronze Ag...

A caldera eruption is a massively violent thing. We're not talking the quiet calderas in shield volcanoes like Mauna Loa and Kilauea , ...

My poor beautiful hand samples from our Oregon trip are just sitting forlorn on the porch, waiting for me to come up with a permanent home f...

I wish I could promise you drama. However, aside from some very nice scenery, Highway 58's about the least-dramatic road through the Cas...

I'm not going to say a damned word about lineaments . Let's just say that traveling down Route 58 is something of an intrigue: you...

There's some superfine geology in this month's Wedge. Go have a look !

Erik Klemetti, on Twitter, had steam coming from his ears on Wednesday : WHY, OH WHY did Bloomsberg talk to @ michiokaku instead of a geol...

One of the beautiful things about OMSI is the Paleontology Lab . This is a place where a mere rope stands between you and delights like this...

My non-geo friends don't get dry mouths and pounding hearts when passing road cuts. Sometimes, I think they're blind to beauty. Uncl...