This is the Gowganda. A crazy cool rock found up in Ontario – the object of my future end table tiles, and the subject of this weeks Natural Color Palette exercise. Geology Moment: The Gowganda Formation was deposited ~2.3 billion years ago. It has been interpreted to represent to deposits of a glacier into a lake – the darker background… (more…)
My Yellowstone photo has inspired me to see what other color palettes that I can find in my field photos. This will be the first of a series – here it goes. This is a photo from Firehole Canyon in southwestern Wyoming. You can’t tell from this photo – but this picture was taken from a pretty decent elevation. It… (more…)
Wow, how’s that for a title. Let Google crawl all over that one. I consider myself to be relatively green, concerned with efficiency, pretty well informed & educated, and often indecisive. It turns out, this is a dangerous combination. Let me ‘splain. Being ‘green‘ means taking care of the environment – reduce, reuse, recycle – taking steps to reduce your… (more…)
Eric and I are both geologists. One of the things that you do as a geologist is travel around and look at rocks. Another thing that you do as a geologist is find cool rocks to bring back home with you. Here’s a quick inventory of the rocks that I can see as I sit here and write: Eocene fish… (more…)