Charleston College I recently returned from Charleston, South Carolina. Although the purpose of my visit was geologic in nature, it was a workshop rather than a field trip. Charleston is a charming city with many historical buildings still standing. In the major cities of the Southern United States it is rare to find any buildings […]
With Spring nearly upon us, the geologic travels are soon to begin. I am looking forward to another season of travel and fieldwork. Heck that is why I became a geologist. Until then this Friday will be Mount Etna. I visited Mount Etna in the spring of 2007 with a group of geologists from Brigham […]
Something that has always struck me about petroleum geology is that our petroleum resources nearly always seem to be in the most remote parts of the planet. For the most part, gone are the days of the Esso exploration geologists that first discovered much of the petroleum in these remote areas. These days petroleum companies […]
Because there is not much traveling in the wintertime, I will post another fab five for this Friday. This week’s fab five come from India. No where in particular, just some amazing sites around the country. The Taj Mahal is built of marble quarried from Makrana in Rajasthan. I was amazing at how little dissolution there […]
This weeks fab five comes from my old stomping grounds: the Colorado Plateau. Prof. Tom Morris (in the aquamarine shirt) standing atop Glass Mountain in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. Glass Mountain is a large diapir of selenite. Selenite is a variety of gypsum (CaSO4•2H2O) in the form of glassy crystals. Glass Mountain formed as […]
