Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, the subject of Monday’s Google Doodle, was a man of art, science, and invention. Plateau’s interests led him in a variety of directions, from the more whimsical ...
Bizarre. Is that the right word for the Colorado Plateau, this thirsty sprawl of gaudy-hued stone festooned with such names as Hell Roaring Canyon, Scorpion Gulch, and Horsethief Point? Edward Abbey ...
Figure 1: Elevation map of the Colorado plateau. Figure 4: The inferred progression of events associated with lithospheric foundering and the geometry of the drip today. We propose that a series of ...