Under propitious conditions, at sunset you might see something amazing. These images were captured from Morrow Mountain State Park in the central Piedmont of North Carolina. This is a rhyolite ridge in the Uwharrie Mountains. The volcanic rocks formed several hundred million years ago as part of a volcanic arc…
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Happy Valentine’s Day from me and my friends in the Underworld!
Love, Andy.
“Tectonic” as an adjective or “tectonics” as a noun refers to the large-scale structure of Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Outside of geology, the word tectonic may refer to a building or construction. The concept arrived in geological sciences prior to “plate tectonics”, mainly with application to mountain building. The word…
Well, you have to start somewhere, don’t you? This isn’t the beginning. It’s just a place in time, or maybe a coordinate in space-time, when the world around you seems gigantic. The hill is a mountain, the ground is a rolling ocean of green. We are ultra cool with a…
I lack enough creativity to distribute my photographs in some intelligent way, so you can find a number of photo albums on my Facebook page. Here’s a current list of the main albums below. The links will transport you to the relevant album. Many of the images don’t have much…
More or less. There were posts to an earlier version of the Geologist’s Pick back when it was partly designated to service a university-level class. (See the Colophon for a little history.) That was before Facebook, Twitter, and the tsunami of social media onto our shores. This site – it’s…
