Beautiful breakdown and the weathering of Gargoyles
Like people, any individual rock can have its own story, but in aggregate, on mountains, their stories tend to follow a similar structure. Any given igneous roc...
Category: Geology
See evidence of millennia of volcanic eruptions on one mountain–it’s beautiful
I grew up going to the High Sierras every summer with my family. They are my home mountains. It wasn’t until I took a geology class at Carnegie Mellon tha...
Jordan Geology Project: The 4.54 billion year view (OR: What we don’t know)
One of my favorite things about geology is how much we don’t know. For example, the earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old, but the oldest rock w...