Ripped from the Headlines (100 years ago)

The New York Times has a cool feature where you can read selected old papers online for free (you have to pay to see all the papers). On the front page, 100 years ago (5 January 1910), is a story entitled 'Mother Earth Still Young'. The article gives the details of a lecture by William Morris Davis.

"We are now able to tell almost exactly the age of this earth," said Prof. William Morris Davis of Harvard in a lecture at the Lowell Institute. "It has existed 60,000,000 not 100,000,000 years. We are able to tell this by an examination of the cliffs in Arizona and Utah, where the time taken to lay down deposits can be easily computed."

Sure he was off by roughly 2 orders of magnitude, but he was on the front page!

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Stoney Indian Pass in Glacier National Park. Various glacier landforms.

Split Mountain, an anticline in Dinosaur NM. Take a look at the gigapan from Ron Schott for a different view and better geology write-up.

Labyrinth Canyon of the Green River in Canyonlands NP.

Brontosaur tracks at Picket Wire Canyon in SE Colorado.

Valle Grane, part of the larger Valles Caldera in N New Mexico.

Riparian forest, floodplain, terrace of Gila River in Gila Box in eastern Arizona.

More Photographs

More photos from the field...

An addition to my previous post.

John Day Fossil Beds in central Oregon


Volcanic deposits in North Fork Toutle River, near Mt St Helens.


Western section of Dry Falls, a waterfall formed during the Missoula Floods.

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I'm not dead yet

Really.

So rather than be an unemployed geoscience type this summer, I decided to be a an unemployed geoscience type that travels. So for the last two months, I have been backpacking in various places in the western US. Here are a few geology influenced pictures.

Cirques, tarns, moraines, and an active rockfall (notice dust cloud on mountain on the left) in John Muir Wilderness, Sierra Mountains.

Sag Pond on San Andreas Fault at the south end of the Carrizo Plain.

Point Reyes headlands.

Lava tube at Lava Beds National Monument.