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The heart of the GSA Cordilleran Section meeting is over; the Wednesday session will be just half a day, giving me time for a side trip or two before the post-meeting field trip. It has been fun hearing from and talking with some of our local West Coast experts and the visiting experts who have ...

I'm spending most of the week in Fresno, California, at the Cordilleran Section meeting of the Geological Society of America. Yesterday, in one of the preliminary field trips for the event, I joined a party of 25 to visit the fossil collection from the Fairmead Landfill project a few miles north ...

If you think you know your way around, think again. A geologic map will transform the way you see your stomping grounds. The familiar features—roads, cities, buildings and all that—are grayed out while the aboriginal land itself shines forth in colors, patterns and lines. Sprinkling ...

On 17 March 2013, NASA cameras captured the brightest impact on the Moon seen in eight years of monitoring. It lasted only a fraction of a second, but at the brightness of a fourth-magnitude star it could have been seen by anyone with binoculars and possibly with the naked eye. Six of the 17 fra ...

When I went to geology school, I was already so advanced that I never used mnemonics—those anagram sentences that help students keep track of the names of the geologic time periods. A reader in the Forum has been using the good old sentence "camels often sit down carefully, perhaps their j ...

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Photographer: Steven Poole  Summary Authors: Steven Poole; Jim Foster The view above shows the colorful sand dunes in Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Utah. This is the only major sand dune field on the Colorado Plateau – estimated to be between 10,000 and 15,000 years old. The dunes formed as ...

It was quiet this morning in the Science Community Center at Modesto Junior College. I walked up to the roof to have a look around and there was a beautiful cloud pattern and the Diablo Range rose in the distance. It was a peaceful start to the day. But what a day it was! It was the Ribbon Cutt ...

PORT ANGELES – The Elwha River is, as U.S. rivers go, a dinky thing. It rises in the Olympic Mountains, draining a basin of a bit more than 300 square miles and flowing north some 45 miles before dumping its cargo into Strait of Juan de Fuca just west of Port Angeles, Wash. By my standards, it’s ...

Day 5: Science Better than Reality TV By School of Rocker; Christine Nakamura Today was so action packed it was worthy of a reality show. We arrived on site for the CORK last night. Immediately the crew started lowering the underwater N ...

The heart of the GSA Cordilleran Section meeting is over; the Wednesday session will be just half a day, giving me time for a side trip or two before the post-meeting field trip. It has been fun hearing from and talking with some of our local West Coast experts and the visiting experts who have ...