The following is part of KRCC's 'Peak Past' essay series. I’m no geologist but I can’t help myself when I come across a pretty piece of pearly white quartz or a silver-flecked hunk of granite. I scoop ...
In a hidden pocket of Monument Valley Park, tucked against a hillside away from this greenway at the edge of downtown Colorado Springs, a colorful wall of rock rises. This is the Geologic Column ...
A hidden corner of Monument Valley Park teaches about Colorado Springs’ human history and its much deeper natural history. Welcome to the Geologic Column. The hillside is streaked by multi-colored ...
This collection of basalt columns was recorded in a canyon north of Molokai, at a depth of just over a mile, according to Nautilus Live Ocean Exploration Trust. YouTube video screengrab Newly recorded ...
DR. WELLS'S new book, although essentially a text-book of stratigraphy, is something more than a formal descriptive catalogue of the various divisions and subdivisions of the geological column. It is ...
Newly recorded video captured the clearest images yet of a “geologic wonder” off Hawaii that resembles the skyline of an abandoned seafloor metropolis. The surreal collection of shapes — each around ...