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A Hike on Washington’s Coast: or, What Do Sandstones and "Twilight" Have in...
When I was young, my sister and father and I went on a hike on Washington’s coast. It was pretty great – the first day was sunshine, and the next two or three were miserable rain. Other than packs and...
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Columbia River Flood Basalts: A Few Pictures
I’ve been on two trips to the Columbia River Flood Basalts recently, including a really awesome one looking at structure/stratigraphy of the basalts, and the recent landslide there. These are a few...
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Sight-seeing, Airplane Style
Yesterday, my family flew down to Phoenix to watch my brother graduate from UTI (at the head of his class, no less.) Our plane flight was luckily during the day, so we got an aerial view of some great...
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The Upsides and Downsides of Mountains
I’ve lived in Western Washington for a total of twenty-one years, so it’s really easy for me to answer this month’s Accretionary Wedge (#29!) as posed by Ann at Ann’s Musings on Geology & Other...
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Slick-n-slide
Ok, so the technical name for this is “slickenside,” but I find “slickenslide” easier to remember. (I loved slip n’ slides as a child.) Anyway, a slickenside is created as the two sections of rock...
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2010 Travel Meme: The PNW Edition
This travel meme seems to be a geoblogosphere favorite! This year, Silver Fox started it, and has a list of this year’s participants. I’m a little late, but better late than never, eh? In 2010, I...
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Airplane scenery, Boise–Seattle
After finals, I decided to visit some family and friends in Seattle for a few days, before travelling out to my summer job. There was much hurried packing and rushing and I barely made it to the...
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Washington to Idaho Road Trip, Featuring Basalt
About two weeks ago, in May, my mother and I set off from her house in Seattle to travel to Idaho. I live (and now work!) in Idaho, but was back home to visit my brother and sister-in-law, who were in...
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It’s a Branch, It’s a Pothole – no, it’s an Earthquake!
For December’s Accretionary Wedge, (#41!) Ron Schott has asked us to describe the most significant or memorable geologic event we have personally experienced. The first thing that sprang to my mind was...
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All the Colors of the Lava Rainbow
Over winter break last year, I went to one of the most spectacular caves I’ve ever been to. It was a short cave (just a couple hours’ trip,) but the features were unlike any I’d ever seen before....
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