Yellowstone Hydrothermal Explosion
I must confess that there are some things I really try to avoid, and mechanics is one of them. Without going into any of the gory details about what’s been going on with my...
Tagged: Tectonics
Pompeii vs. Herculaneum in 79 A.D.
Susie just loves to visit Italy, and suffers the twenty-plus hour one-way trip whenever she can find the time (and airfare). I tagged along several years ago, and while the focaccia bread on the...
Quicksand (a.k.a. Liquefaction)
I had a great question a little bit ago on the Ask GeoMan section of my GeoMania educational website from Elizabeth in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She’d been walking on Nye Beach on the central...
Strickler’s Laws of GeoFantasy
I love being a geologist. Along with being able to spend my life outside and in nature (and drink a lot of beer in my salad days — it’s one of the requirements for...
Earthquakes: Prediction and Control
As discussed in a couple earlier posts (Intro to Quakes and the Richter Scale), earthquakes are gonna continue to rattle our teeth and level our cities, and there’s not a hell of a lot...
Earthquakes and the Richter Scale
Humans have been trying to describe the strength of earthquakes for almost forever — I imagine the initial attempt began soon after the first caveman got knocked on his or her butt. It wasn’t...
