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...
Category: Jordan Geology Project
Jordan Geology Project: Caves are not made for people (Pictures from Qozhaya, Lebanon and Petra, Jordan. OR: an internet horror story)
One of my transitional moments between childhood and adulthood was when watching a nature program about caves (yep, you know the one). And watching people have ...
Jordan Geology Project: How stalagmites and stalactites form (a quick side-trip into Lebanon’s limestone caves)
After I was in Jordan in February 2013, my Mom and I went to Lebanon. I wrote a bit about it then, but didn’t get into the rock-fun we had. On one of our ...