Southern Rockies Nature Blog

I mentioned the ill-fated Bonsai Rock on March 21st — ill-fated from the "bonsai" trees' perspective, pretty much life as usu...

Right here is when (most of) the dinosaurs died. Things you learn. Not being a paleontologist or a geologist, I did not know that that t...

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve photographed from the International Space Station (NASA photo). I came across this quick ex...

¶ " Landslides in the United States cause approximately $3.5 billion (year 2001 dollars) in damage, and kill between 25 and 50 people...

I wlll look at the sandstone boulders behind the house in a new way after reading this: Most of us are used to the idea that sand is creat...

The Big Stump, a fossilized redwood, was once the pride of a commercial resort at the site. The tree would have been a "little" ...

The trouble with the Telegraph's (UK) obituary of explorer and geologist Augusto Gansser is that there is no one good paragraph to excer...

• A geologis t explains the formation of the "teepee buttes" of Pueblo and El Paso counties (Colorado). • I cannot think of any...