This is part 3 of 3. You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. Probably the best field trip* in the world ever! (*and it wasn’t even a field trip) Part 3 of 3: Yosemite to Las Vegas Two years ago we decided, as a family, […]
Jonathan Dean is a postdoc at the British Geological Survey. In this post, he travels through the land east of the Sierra Nevada to discover some incredible geology. You can read more of his adventures here. I’d just spent a week in Reno at a conference, and was ready to move on from the so-called […]
Death Valley National Park contains arguably the most diverse set of geologic features per square mile than any other national park in the world. Among the highlights are the Ubehebe volcanic field and Titus Canyon. The Ubehebe (you-bee-hee-bee) volcanic field is a classic example of a phreatomagmatic eruption. A phreatomagmatic eruption occurs when rising magma […]
Kellen Gunderson on Death Valley. Kellen (website) is a PhD Candidate at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, United States. He is a tectonic geomorphologist currently working on spatial and temporal scales of fault slip rate variability in the Northern Apennines, Italy. Death Valley (part 1) To most people Death valley seems desolate. […]
