Tag: Geology
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Yellowstone contains more than ten thousand hydrothermal features. More than five hundred active geysers.
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Drive across much of the upper Midwest and the landscape can feel broadly legible. Rolling farmland.
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The Palouse of eastern Washington and northern Idaho looks like someone applied a smoothing tool to farmland.
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Lake Michigan contains no saltwater. No ocean tides in the ordinary sense. No connection to the sea that matters to the person standing on the beach.
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Human beings encounter a spectacular geologic formation and react in a predictable sequence. First: awe.
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The Great Basin sounds like one object. A basin. Large. Simple. Perhaps somewhere near Nevada. This is false in nearly every useful way.
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Central Nebraska contains an enormous sand-dune field. Not ancient dunes buried under rock. Not little dunes along a river.
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Death Valley contains the lowest point in North America. Badwater Basin sits 282 feet below sea level.