To cross the Hudson River and head east on routes 43 or 2 or 7 onto the Rensselaer Plateau is to enter a landscape vastly different both geologically and topographically from that west of the river
Scattered across the Southwestern states of the United States are the remnants of an ancient civilization as mysterious in its own way as that of the Etruscans or the Minoans.
For those of us “of a certain age,” our images of China probably derive from the late 1960s and early 1970s: scenes of grim-looking Beijing with thousands of stern-faced, androgynous-looking Red G
Barton Hill looms above Route 146 as it descends to the village of Gallupville and extends north as a series of impressive limestone cliffs along Route 443 to its intersection with Route 30.
My first experience with Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island in Maine was in the summer of 1987 when I went as a graduate student to the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor for a co
When I started composing this article in my head, this thought came to me: “tower karst” and “Onesquethaw” — two rather obscure terms (to most people) — in one headline. Might be an attention-gr
Geologists, I have often told my students, have a name for virtually everything. For most people, an expression such as “debris that collects at the base of a cliff” would be sufficient to describ
