Windows into the Past
The granite and obsidian described in my previous posts aren’t the only rocks I admire. My favorites are sedimentary types. I promise they’re more interesting than they sound. During exposure to wind and water even [...]
The granite and obsidian described in my previous posts aren’t the only rocks I admire. My favorites are sedimentary types. I promise they’re more interesting than they sound. During exposure to wind and water even [...]
Whenever I venture out in the world, I check out the rocks in my environment – they are all around us in natural outcrops or layered onto the buildings in our towns and cities. As [...]
When Alex Honnold climbed El Capitan, the 3,200 foot high sheer rock face in Yosemite on June 3, 2017 – alone, and without any equipment for fall protection -- it was an epic feat that [...]
The volcanic glass obsidian has a rock solid place as a valuable resource in human history. It also has a solid place in fiction, as the Game of Thrones material of Dragonglass found on Westeros [...]
The Incas and their ancestors who inhabited the Andes Mountains had many lively and colorful cultural practices – parading the mummies of long-dead rulers through the streets, oracles who spoke in tongues, psychedelic drug use, [...]