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THE closing years of the nineteenth century witnessed a revival of interest in the petrology of gneous rocks, which must be regarded as marking an important stage in the development of that subject.

The Open Space and Recreation Working Group hosted a hike through Willis Woods to a glacial erratic, one of many large boulders deposited across North America by retreating glaciers at the end of the ...

Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, we’re featuring a series of guest writers (whom we’ve dubbed ...

Second on the podium is the Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the Lake District of England. Taking the bronze is the Skye Lava ...

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One of the most spectacular things about Central Washington is its geology. We’ve got everything from a sleeping volcano called Mount Adams, to basalt columns made of solidified lava, to Union Gap and ...

One of my projects underway is the development of a geological guide of the Northwest Lancaster County Recreational Trail. This trail stretches from Columbia north to Falmouth, about 14 miles, all ...