What happens when you take 60 rocks from 15 different countries all around the world, capture 8,500 photographs of them and string them together into a three-minute stop motion video? The geology ...
The birth of modern geology is said to have started in the 18th century. The introduction of new concepts and thoughts about the Earth was a brave thing to do. Why is that? Because the believeth of ...
I love the Grand Canyon, both personally (because of all the good memories I have of my adventures there), and as a scientist. I first saw it in the early summer of 1981 when I went on a six-week-long ...
Even teachers spend time in summer school. Teachers spent time this week traipsing through Garden of the Gods, touching rocks and learning about such things as alluvial fans, ancestral Rocky Mountains ...
I enjoyed reading the Times’ recent articles on the Roaring Fork River. The more we all know and understand our valley’s environment, the better we can appreciate and protect it. However, let’s keep ...
Some years past when I was pulling weeds in my yard, I unearthed a dirt-covered rock. This is not unusual or really worth mentioning except that when I brushed off the dirt, one side unveiled a dark, ...
WEST GOSHEN – West Chester University students received a hands-on geology lesson this week. As part of a collaboration, about 30 students and approximately 35 seasoned professionals watched side by ...
PHILOMATH, Ore. — Three miles up the Marys Peak Road, where the roadbed cuts through a ridge of dark volcanic rock, Bob Lillie is giving a geology lesson to a group of about 16 people. Clad in a ...
Bicyclists who take part in next month’s Cycling Scandia event will get a geology lesson in addition to a 15-mile workout. Geologist Dale Setterholm, who retired in February as associate director of ...
As schools and universities in Washington state and around the country are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, teachers are using online tools to connect with students. Nick Zentner, a geology ...