Happy Anniversary
This one will be real short (but I promise a more detailed discussion when my currently overloaded life allows me the time). The year was 1700 on January 26th. None of us were here,...
Tagged: Plate Tectonics
Harmonic Tremors are Really Cool
Those of us who celebrate the earth and its processes are having a real good time in Iceland (late November 2023). Please don’t think me insensitive: while the situation is surely fraught with peril...
A Brief Introduction to Earthquakes
Stress… it can be a big deal. We all get stress all the time — from any number of sources and in a dog’s breakfast of exotic flavors and intensities. Sometimes we bend and...
A Brief Introduction to Volcanoes
Before we get started I gotta come clean: The year was 1957, I was six years old in southeastern Nebraska, and Pop had called a family meeting to inform my sister and I that...
Super Volcanoes
kaBoom2 The headline of the article in Global Times (8/10/22) sounded ominous: “Earth overdue for volcanic super eruption. Explosive pressure builds up over millions of years, new research finds.” The article reports that “super...
