As simple as black and white
I am absolutely convinced that we are all born geologists. I mean, really, what kid doesn’t have a rock collection? Sadly, most of us lose the love by middle school when the burdens and...
Author: GeoMan
Here Comes the Sun…
I spent much of my high school years on a surfboard. It became a full-throated obsession during my senior year when the school test-drove a new program called “Self-Imposed Scheduling.” If you were in...
Climate Change?
Europe — indeed much of the northern hemisphere, thanks to five separate high-pressure domes — is sweltering under an unprecedented heat wave: airport schedules disrupted because runways are buckling… older folks dying from heatstroke…...
Water, water everywhere…
I’ve been a collector of good ideas for as long as I can remember. But just like an on switch cannot exist without an off, or an up without a down, for every positive...
West coast tectonics
I had an interesting question come across my GeoMania website a while back: “If Mt. St. Helens and the whole west coast is a convergent plate boundary with subduction, how come there are no...
The three basic types of rock
All rocks can be put into one of three (3) fundamentally different types. This should always be the first determination attempted whenever a new rock is encountered. In most cases, it’s not all that...
Hot AND Humid
One of our nephews recently relocated to the southeast, just in time for the June 2022 heat wave (timing is everything). His rental didn’t offer any air conditioning (no surprise), but when he looked...
Why study the earth?
In my forty years in front of a classroom, probably the most common question I get at the beginning of a new term is something along the lines of “Why do I even care...
