I have, at long last, begun the Seattle adventure series requested by Rosetta Stones reader Galway. This trip, we’re visiting Seward Park, and all of the delicious geology within. There’s plenty of other science there for those strange people who don’t get really excited by rocks. Enjoy!
Stay tuned, for if all goes as planned, I should have some delicious photos from Mount Baker for you tomorrow, my darlings. And Misha’s had some adventures of her own she’ll share with you very soon. Also, too, there is a ginormous party going on at our place on Saturday, with some astonishingly awesome live music acts and an actual entomologist, so I’ll likely have photos and videos from that shindig for you once I’ve recovered. Swag will be forthcoming to those who asked for it, I swear, next week without fail. Thanks for your patience!
Do you want to know how devoted I am to you? Then I’ll have you know I gave up a boat trip to Lake Union in order to bring you blog content rather more interesting than my relationship and housing woes. That’s how much I love you, my darlings. But don’t feel bad, because said boat trip happens regularly, and I’ll be able to go along and get you gorgeous pictures of the sunset from out on the water.
Once it cools a bit, which it looks like it will do soon, I’ll be getting back down to Mount St. Helens for ye. It also looks like I may be hitting the Olympic Peninsula with S and his dad next month, so you’ll have plenty of delicious content from that. It’s going to be a fantastic summer, my darlings, now that I have my room semi-arranged and my outdoor office set mostly up. Tell your family! Tell your friends! Tell the people you’re only vaguely acquainted with! I want an enormous crowd joining us vicariously, because it shall be a blast, and I’m told the more, the merrier.
See you soon!
Hey Dana,
The purple flowers and green berries in your ninth photo are Deadly Nightshade, and you would be advised to avoid them. The berries will turn a beautiful, translucent red, which makes them look appealing and thus even more deadly.
Cheers,
Tom
Actually there are signs of earthquakes in the Az start with the Grand Wash Cliffs at the Western edge of the Grand Canyon going north into the Hurricane fault zone in UT. Then there is the Toroweap fault a bit east of there. Then looking at older faults the Grand Canyon has a number of them Then there is the Bright Angel fault in the Heart of the Grand Canyon, or the faults that allow the road to reach the river at Diamond Creek where the Redwall and other cliff forming rocks have been faulted away. Or as this article suggests the Kaibab Monocline (well seen on the road from Lees Ferry to Jacob Lake http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191814199000899
Let alone if you go to the basal rocks in the Grand Canyon, or in Jerome where the rocks have been scruched up due to 1.7 billion year old continental collisions. You just have to know what to look for. Here is a link to a geologic map of Coconino county:http://repository.azgs.az.gov/uri_gin/azgs/dlio/1620 If you look closely you will see that the county is a faulty place also. Elsewhere in Az there are also faults as most of the southern part of Az is in the Basin and Range which is defined as basins and ranges seperated by faults.