Earthly Musings - My Travel and Geology Blog

Dust cloud coming from the eastern rim of Grand Canyon near Carbon Creek Canyon. Temple Butte is the high-standing pyramid left of the dust ...

" Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau " was first published in 2008 and is now available in a fully revised and completely ...

Next stop on this trip was the Shetland Islands - the northernmost part of Scotland. We anchored off of the largest city, Lerwick. It has a ...

After leaving  the Isle of Skye, Le Champlain  rounded the northern tip of the Scottish mainland and came to anchor on the western side of t...

The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory has issued a report on the hydrothermal blast in the Biscuit Basin area of the Park on July 23. I have c...

Recently, I was fortunate to represent the Smithsonian Institution's travel program, Smithsonian Journeys , as a geologic lecturer for 1...