August 16, 2017
Down to Earth With: Paleontologist Lisa D. White
As a college student at San Francisco State University, Lisa D. White’s first choice of major was photography. She was drawn to landscapes, and …
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July 25, 2016
Teaching geology to biologists: An essay on an interdisciplinary field trip in Africa
We stop next to a wide, dry, creek bed on the floor of a steep canyon near Tarangire National Park in northern Tanzania. Elephants spray water on …
August 6, 2015
Geology for everyone: Making the field accessible
On Oct. 18, 2014, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in Vancouver, British Columbia, the society hosted, for the …
January 5, 2012
The Coconino's starring role in the creationist-geologist battle
Arizona’s Coconino Sandstone — a deposit seen in the Grand Canyon and elsewhere — plays a central role in the creationist argument that the upper …
January 5, 2012
Creationism creeps into mainstream geology
It was easy to miss the part where the field trip leader said the outcrop formed during Noah’s Flood. After all, “During these catastrophic flood …