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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: Iceland - Fire and Ice and Lots of Sunshine
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Sunday, July 05, 2015. Iceland - Fire and Ice and Lots of Sunshine. Annotated map of Iceland showing our route into the Keflavik Airport (red line). This is useful to show locations for the first three photos in this post (red circles with numbers). Historic re-enactors on the site reveal Icelandic hospitality. The design ...
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: Moderate-Size Earth Slump Closes Highway 89 in Northern Arizona - A Blog Report From Luxor, Egypt
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Thursday, February 21, 2013. Moderate-Size Earth Slump Closes Highway 89 in Northern Arizona - A Blog Report From Luxor, Egypt. See also Arizona State Geologist Lee Allison's blog and descriptions by Jon Spencer here. Additionally, ADOT has already produced an informative and image-rich video. I can give an informal geolog...
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: China's Rainbow Mountains and the Danxia Geologic Park
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Tuesday, December 10, 2013. China's Rainbow Mountains and the Danxia Geologic Park. China's Rainbow Mountains - Are the colors real or unreal? Or maybe you have seen this site. That offers even more of the wild photographs. Even Huffington's Post. The short answer is no - with a conditional yes/asterisk/parts of them to fo...
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: The Grand Mesa Colorado Mudslide Beneath Sugarloaf Peak - Updated June 23
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Tuesday, May 27, 2014. The Grand Mesa Colorado Mudslide Beneath Sugarloaf Peak - Updated June 23. UPDATE - On June 20, NASA's Earth Observatory web site showed before and after pictures from space of the Colbran, CO landslide. They are excellent views of the area and you can look at the images here. The earth movement appe...
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: A "Ground Zero" Hike Into Meteor Crater, Arizona
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Friday, December 17, 2010. A "Ground Zero" Hike Into Meteor Crater, Arizona. The Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona is Earth's best preserved extraterrestrial impact site. Look at how the flash from my camera is superimposed on the aerial image of the crater behind Drew. It makes it looks like the bolide. A view to the wes...
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: Through the Canyon of Lodore and Whirlpool and Split Mountain Canyons
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Thursday, August 19, 2010. Through the Canyon of Lodore and Whirlpool and Split Mountain Canyons. When you turn your gaze upstream from the Gates of Lodore you see the wide open expanse of Brown's Park. This odd arrangement of landforms confronted John Wesley Powell when he floated through here in 1869 and 1871. Wh...It ca...
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: The Osos (or Hazel or Steelhead) Landslide in Washington State - Can Geologic Information Be Better Utilized by Non-Geologists in Geohazard Assesments?
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. The Osos (or Hazel or Steelhead) Landslide in Washington State - Can Geologic Information Be Better Utilized by Non-Geologists in Geohazard Assesments? Added on April 23, 2014): A fantastic scientific account of the slide was posted on the USGS blog site. You cam access that link here. 1951: Anothe...
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: Sunday's 4.7M Earthquake - What is the Oak Creek Canyon Fault?
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Monday, December 01, 2014. Sunday's 4.7M Earthquake - What is the Oak Creek Canyon Fault? But here is a summary of the fault here. Courtesy of the Arizona Earthquake Information Center. Google Earth image of Oak Creek Canyon annotated by Wayne Ranney. 6 million years ago. As I stated in a previous post, I am unaware of...
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: Last Stop - Greenland Ice Cap and the Russell Glacier
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Monday, July 06, 2015. Last Stop - Greenland Ice Cap and the Russell Glacier. We approached Greenland from the east and soon were treated to fantastic views of the fjords and glaciers in this very remote landscape. It looks like thin sea ice with a few icebergs in the water. Then we were on our way on the longest road in G...
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog: March 2015
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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Thursday, March 19, 2015. The Southern Cone of South America. On the grounds they have reconstructed a Yamana hut as it might have looked along the shores of the channel in the 19th century. I gave a lecture about these people as we sailed on the Stella Australis in these waters. These are the rocks of southern Tierra del ...