Lola "helps" with grading
My cat loves to sit on, or lie on, paper. Maps are here favorite, but she will take a pile of structural geology labs instead, if that’s all that’s available.
Faulted moraine
Continuing with the recounting of geological sights in the Owens Valley, California, area… This one is in the Pine Creek area. Take a look at this photo: No, that’s not just a portrait of Jeff Lee and his awesome handlebar mustache. Look behind Jeff, on the hillside above. See the little step down that the … Read more
A small shear zone
Back at NOVA Geoblog, I spent a portion of September and October 2009 reviewing the geological wonders I witnessed as part of a GSA field forum in the Owens Valley of California. However, I got distracted by other things, and never finished the series. I’d like to pick up on that today, looking at a … Read more
Snoverkill, 4pm
A look out the back window as DC breaks its annual snowfall record…
Normal fault in hedgetop snow stratum
Intersection of 16th Street and Columbia Road NW… … a wee bit underexposed, eh? Guess the high albedo blew out my iPhone camera. (glove for scale)
Ghost Lola
A shot of my cat Lola in the bright winter sunlight:
Test post via iPhone
This is a test post to see if I can really make a blog post from my mobile phone…
All that came before
Mountain Beltway is the new home for Callan Bentley’s geoblogging. NOVA Geoblog will soon be closed, but will be left untouched. Like a fossil, it will be static but present, an artifact from an earlier time. It is hoped that the thousand-plus posts accumulated there will continue to be useful to the Internet-surfing public.