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Tag Archives: geology
Utah and Four Corners Road Trip 2025
My wife and I recently finished a wonder-filled twelve-day road trip through Utah and the Four Corners region of the US Southwest. This is an incredible part of the country, and I wanted to share some of our experiences and a tiny sample of our photos. Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged bryce, colorado plateau, four corners, geology, moab, national parks, photography, tourism, utah, zion
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The Fifth Season
The Fifth Season takes place on a geologically unstable world where there’s a catastrophic “fifth season” of eruptions and earthquakes every few hundred years. It tells the story of one woman’s quest to find her abducted daughter during an especially destructive season. Rich, vivid and highly inventive. Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged fiction, geology, n.k. jemisin, science fiction, speculative fiction
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The Ends of the World
You might think a 290-page deep dive into mass extinction would be the most depressing book ever. But The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged book review, carbon cycle, climate change, extinction, geology, nonfiction, paleontology, peter brannen
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