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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Fossil Hunting North Texas Creeks - March 2023

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Labels: Cretaceous, Fossil Hunting, Texas Geology

Monday, October 30, 2023

This Popular Michigan Fossil Hunting Location is FULL of Incredible Fossils

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Labels: Fossil Hunting, Michigan Fossils, Michigan Geology, Paleozoic Era, Rockhounding

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Fossil Hunting North Texas Creeks

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Labels: Cretaceous, Fossil Hunting, Geo-Bucket List, My Geologic Bucket List, North Texas, Texas, Texas Geology

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Fossil Country

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Labels: Eocene, Eocene Fossils, Fossil Fish, Fossil Hunting, Geo-Bucket List, My Geologic Bucket List, Wyoming, Wyoming Geology

Friday, October 27, 2023

How to find SUPER nice Fossil Fish | Wyoming Rock Quarry

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Labels: Eocene, Eocene Fossils, Fossil Fish, Fossil Hunting, Geo-Bucket List, My Geologic Bucket List, Wyoming, Wyoming Geology

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Some of the BEST Fossil Fish on Earth found here!

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Labels: Eocene, Eocene Fossils, Fossil Fish, Fossil Hunting, Geo-Bucket List, My Geologic Bucket List, Wyoming, Wyoming Geology

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Big Obsidian Flow

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Labels: Cascade Volcanoes, Obsidian, Oregon, Oregon Geology, Rockhounding, Volcanic Processes

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Why Is This Stark White Mountain Sitting In The Middle of Utah's West De...

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Labels: Basin and Range Province, Igneous Mineralogy, Utah Geology

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Rockhounding / Arrowhead Hunting 101: What is Chert and Flint?

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Labels: Chemical Sedimentary Rocks, Chert, Flint, Geochemistry, Rockhounding, Sedimentary Processes

Monday, October 16, 2023

Southern California Geology | Massive crystals within a Pegmatite!

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Labels: California, Igneous Mineralogy, Mineralogy, Pegmatites, Rockhounding

Sunday, October 15, 2023

The Active Volcanoes in California; Mono County

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Labels: California, Explosive Volcanoes, Shield Volcanoes, Volcanoes

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Minute by Minute: The Eruption of Mount St. Helens

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Labels: Cascade Volcanoes, Composite Volcanoes, Pyroclastics, Washington Geology, Washington State

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Explosions at Mount Saint Helens | How the Earth Was Made (S2, E10) | Fu...

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Labels: Cascade Volcanoes, Composite Volcanoes, Mount St. Helens, Pyroclastics, Washington Geology, Washington State

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Earthly Musings - Wayne Ranney's Geology Blog

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HAIDA GWAII: MISTY SHORES AND DAPPLED LIGHT - ARCHEA: Misty shores, moss-covered forests, dappled light, and the smell of salt airâ€”these are my memories of Haida Gwaii, a land where ancient stories a...
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Akkadia: How Climate Change Doomed The World’s First Empire - Gol-e-Zard Cave lies in the shadow of Mount Damavand, which at more than 5,000 metres dominates the landscape of northern Iran. In this cave, stalagmites...
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Geology IN

Alligator Quartz - Alligator quartz is a distinctive textural *variety of quartz* defined by its reptile-skin surface composed of tightly packed, blocky, stepped micro-crys...
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GeologyWriter.com - Writing by David B. Williams

Street Smart Newsletter - Every week I write a newsletter about human and natural history in the Pacific Northwest. Ranging from glaciers to escalators to wooly dogs, the newsletter...
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Highly Allochthonous

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In the Company of Plants and Rocks

A Darkling Path through the Ferny Ferns - Be there dragons here?It's November and *The Monthly Fern* series is winding down. Looking back, I realized that most of the ferns I chose are distinctiv...
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Itinerant Geologist

Route 66 Road Trip Stops in Missouri - From "Through My Lens", the final leg (west of the Mississippi) of the Eastward journey on U.S. Hwy 66.
5 years ago
Looking For Detachment

Winnemucca to Hwy 395 north of Susanville, Part4 - And now we’ll say goodbye to the Smoke Creek Desert, which we saw on the last leg of this cross-country journey, and make our way south for a very short ...
6 years ago
Lounge of the Lab Lemming

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Rapid Uplift

Landscapes: PIndari Glacier Trail - Every time I am dragging myself back on the last day of a tiring trek in the Himalaya, I curse and swear that I’ll never do this again. And yet, here I a...
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Ron Schott's Geology Home Companion Blog

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8 years ago
The Daily Plant

DNA is DNA is DNA - A few months ago I was interviewed by Story Preservation Initiative. What started out as a nice interview about *What A Plant Knows*, developed into a dis...
10 years ago
The GeoChristian » Around the web 12/11/2010

Too Many Events, Too Little Time - Let me tell you about everything I did yesterday. I woke up at 5:45 and read thirty-two chapters in my Bible. After that, I did my regular thirty-mile bike...
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The Geology P.A.G.E.

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The Landslide Blog

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on-the-rocks: As a Geologist/Naturalist with a strong interest in Photography (and being an aspiring writer), I hope to use my travels in the continental U.S. and my experiences (and mistakes) as Educational Resources. I have a constant "yearning to learn" and a desire to better understand the things that I see and have seen in the past. I grew up on the Georgia Piedmont, received my B.S. in Geology and later worked on the Coastal Plain, and spent 14 years in El Paso, where I received my Master's Degree and learned much about the Chihuahuan Desert.

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