Earthly Musings - My Travel and Geology Blog

The Atlantic recently published an article called, "The Terrifying Record Lurking in Earth's Ancient Rock Record" by Peter Bra...

In the final ten days of January, Helen and I traveled down south to the beautiful Sonoran Desert. I had been invited by the interpretive ra...

Image from the San Francisco Chronicle California's storied Highway 1, hugging the Pacific shoreline near Big Sur, has experienced yet a...

The planet's famous red colour is from iron oxide coating everything. So it's not a just a desert. It's a desert so old  it'...

The Kilauea volcano has entered its second week of the current eruptive activity. A lava lake has developed on the floor of the crater and i...

In October of this year, I completed a 17-day rafting trip on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. We experienced perfect weather on this tri...