The 1993 mega-debris pile on the lower Verde River, AZ

I just had 2.8 Gb of old slides scanned and found my favorite flood
debris picture in the world. This is me standing in the midst of the
enormous flotsam pile that was deposited along the lower Verde River,
1993 following two very large floods that occurred back-to-back that year.

Once I saw this mess, I was hooked and made studying the historical
and paleoflood history of the Verde River one-half of my PhD
dissertation at U or A. Stay tuned for more pictures of this event and
how it compares to the recent flooding.

Amazing landslide footage from Italy

This particular footage provides key insights into the utter chaos that characterizes many landslide deposits in the field. The mechanics of these things are bizarre.

Two new geoGigapans of interest

I am shooting for at least one Gigapan image per month in 2010. Just grabbed two last week. One is of the amazing stratigraphic exposure that is the southwest face of Bare Mountain, NV; the other is a huge image of one of my long term study sites on the lower Verde River, Arizona. You should check these out (by clicking the preceding links).

Google Street-View Roadcut-Geology

I suspect someone has exploited this more fully than I, but recently I was perusing the Google Street View imagery near roadcuts I am familiar with. This one shows a fault in the Peach Springs Tuff (~18.5 Ma) on I-40 in Kingman, AZ. It is no gigapan, but interesting nonetheless:

Imagine what could be done with a better camera...taken on a river trip for example. Yikes.

Flash Earth and Geohacks...Who knew? Not me.

Just happened upon a sweet and simple geobrowser called Flash Earth...very smooth and easy to understand. Added bonus for me is that it links to high-res images of my favorite field area that are available only in Yahoo and Bing Maps:

Seems my pals at Google still just don't care about SE Oregon. Anyway, I found the site by perusing the details in an exif header in one of my geotagged photos. Was checking that out in Irfan View, a program I was aware of but hadn't tried yet. Turns out, it is well worth a look:

Which led me to the GeoHack wiki:

The internets are amazing, no? Totally cool.

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San Diego State University geology-themed kml files

The Department of Geological Sciences at SDSU is doing a major service for the geological community by providing some excellent geology-themed kml files. The word needs to spread.Go to their site and look for your favorite topic. Who couldn't like this stuff?

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/localgeology/getour.html

There are an array of useful geology images in addtion to some other, practical datasets. For example, the link below is to a Google Earth file showing the extent, name, and index number of every 7.5 topographic quad in the US. It can be bulky if you leave all of the data turned on, but is useful nonetheless.

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/localgeology/gekmz/maps_overlays/drg_dem_index/24k.kmz