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Accretionary Wedge 28: Familial Bookcase-crop
This Accretionary Wedge, hosted at Research at a snail’s pace, is focused on desk-crops. Normally, this would be very exciting – I have a healthy assortment of rocks. But, unfortunately, I put all my...
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Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble: Lava Cave Features
Lava tubes frequently show fantastic features, and I saw some really cool features while I was interning through the GeoCorps Program with the BLM at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve....
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Double-sided Dike
This is one of my favorite cave features here at Oregon Caves National Monument. It’s a quartz diorite dike encrusted with calcite. Water (carrying minerals) flows through cracks in the marble bedrock....
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Montana, Chert, and the 1960s.
Two years ago, this rock really caught my eye while I was caving in the Madison Group of Montana. First of all, there’s a nifty calcite or gypsum encrusted pocket, which looks much like a sparkly...
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Caving in Montana: Crystals Galore
These are well-known caves that are publically accessible with a permit. If you would like more information, or would like to view any of my site-specific references, please feel free to send me an...
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Yellowstone Pictures, Pt. II
I’m over on the east coast, doing some family visits, and thought I’d use the occasion to post some photos from this past summer/fall, that have heretofore been unpublished. This first set is from a...
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Weird AND Scenic: Accretionary Wedge #34
“… a weird and scenic landscape peculiar to itself” was how President Calvin Coolidge described Craters of the Moon when he proclaimed it a National Monument in May of 1924. For my entry in the...
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Washington to Idaho Road Trip, Featuring Basalt
About two weeks ago, in May, my mother and I set off from her house in Seattle to travel to Idaho. I live (and now work!) in Idaho, but was back home to visit my brother and sister-in-law, who were in...
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Cave Cartography at Newberry
Looking towards the entrance of Lava River Cave – tiny cavers for scale In May, I attended SpeleoEd at Newberry Volcanic Monument – a weekend of learning about caves. Cavers gather from all across the...
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All the Colors of the Lava Rainbow
Over winter break last year, I went to one of the most spectacular caves I’ve ever been to. It was a short cave (just a couple hours’ trip,) but the features were unlike any I’d ever seen before....
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