Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students to go outside, take a photo showing an example of sediment transport and explain what is going on. Other posts from this assignment can be found under the “Geology 111” […]
Fictional Story – Backpacking in Alaska
Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students to write a fictional story that incorporates terms from the textbook regarding groundwater and glaciers. Other posts from this assignment can be found under the “Geology 111” category. Because of […]
Union Gap Slope Failure
Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students to find a recent mass wasting or flood event in their state. Other posts from this assignment can be found under the “Geology 111” category. Okay, so no, Union Gap […]
Record Warmth for Western Washington
Meteorological spring began on the first, but Mother Nature is using it to give the West Side their first taste of early-summer. At 4pm at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the temperature was 73 breaking the old record of 68 which was set in 1998. Seattle isn’t the only one breaking records, though. The last time Seattle […]
Cyclone Hola to skirt New Caledonia
While the tropics on this side of the world are pretty subdued, one tropical system caught my eye. Cyclone Hola. Yes, I admit, this cyclone mostly caught my eye because of it’s name. That said, it’s a good one. In this region of the world, they don’t use the same storm rating we do here […]
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students to look at the anatomy of a mid-ocean ridge. Other posts from this assignment can be found under the “Geology 111” category. Throughout the summer, the Atlantic Ocean is on […]
Earthquakes in the Mid-Columbia
Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students to look at earthquake patterns in the area they live in. Other posts from this assignment can be found under the “Geology 111” category. Earlier this semester, I wrote an […]
Geologic Time and Religion
Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students discuss how they reconcile geologic time with the time frame described in the Bible. Other posts from this assignment can be found under the “Geology 111” category. I don’t generally […]
Metamorphic construction
Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students discuss the use of metamorphic rocks in construction. Other posts from this assignment can be found under the “Geology 111” category. I find marble counter tops to be awesome, but […]
Carson Sink rocks
Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students find and take a picture of a sedimentary rock. Other posts from this assignment can be found under the “Geology 111” category. After looking at the prompt, it was not […]