The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind….
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The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind….
Just imagine what it is like in Death Valley! It is howling.
It is an earthquake geology/geomorphology wonderland!
A mountain front and alluvial fan reflected in a lake.
Caught a good Lake Manly reflection before the winds pick up tonight.
Sunset on a desert mountain
When the last bolt of sunshine hits the mountain…
Sunset on a desert mountain
When the last bolt of sunshine hits the mountain…
A desert landscape with sunlit mountains and a moonset.
Daybreak over land…
A stream flowing through a white salt crusted expanse with mountains in the background
Soft sand dunes with red golden colored mountains in the background.
Sunrise to sunset: Death Valley edition
There are better things to wake up to than Folgers coffee in your cup.
Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal and created this mess. Now, he's putting servicemembers in harm's way with no clear plan and no Congressional approval. The American people deserve answers — and Congress needs to do its job.
It is toasty in SF. Doors and windows wide open
Congrats!
A drill rig and misc equipment in a green field with four men standing around the drill rig
A man in a safety vest holding a drill bit surrounded by miscellaneous other drilling equipment
Field days are the best. Today I had the opportunity to attend the Taber Foundation Drill Class in Capay Valley. The class has live demos of geotechnical drilling & sampling techniques for students. CGS’s Sr. Geotechnical Engineer Chase White was one of the instructors on the mud rotary rig.
NEW: Federal prison officials face civil contempt hearing, as ICE is threatened with criminal contempt.
Thursday orders from two Republican judicial appointees show greater willingness to push back with increasingly harsh tools in the face of continued Trump admin lawlessness.
Tonight at Law Dork:
I was pretty discouraged by the thing about AI and nuclear strikes this morning, but this makes it better. Like AI nevers seems to suggest pictures of cute animals as the solution to anything, but it does help a lot.
I might have an update next week. Hoping to swing by on my trip.
The highly anticipated new edition of CGS’s publication California Geology is out. Please check it out!
But whether an earthquake on the fault caused the landslide, that is an unknown, but entirely possible.
Yep, definitely very close to the fault. On some level, the fault & landslides are related, whether it be the fault uplifting the landscape and making the steep slopes, grinding up rocks to make them weaker, making groundwater barriers, and perhaps shaking that triggers the landslide itself.
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
The California Geological Survey Seismic Hazards Program is hiring for 2 key positions:
🔸Liquefaction Unit Supervisior
🔸Tsunami Unit Supervisor / Seismic Hazards Program Project Manager
It is so hideous.
Is that at a hotel and which one? *Asking for a friend
I honestly kept thinking there was an extra zero in the depth estimate. 620km! 62 km would have been deep enough for me.
A view of the golden gate bridge looking towards the hills of the Marin headlands in the background
Another day in the hellscape of San Francisco.
Looks like my first attempt at GMT back in the late 1990s
Our constitutional rights haven't changed.
Despite what ICE may claim, we all have the right to record and document ICE activities in public. We're suing.
This needs more attention. Part of the problem is incentivizing arrests with no accountability. But there are so many other issues at work that needs hard reform to stop a system out of control.
A view of Mt Diablo with clear sky and a green hilly landscape in the foreground
Still a touch of snow at the top of Mt Diablo on a gorgeous and clear day.
Happy birthday Laura!
Its all garbage ads and weird videos of hardware hacks when I drop in there on occasion. I guess the algorithm has no idea what to do with me. But there is nothing there that engages me anymore.
