What a lovely write-up Richard. I really enjoyed this. You have a gift with writing weaving your past work with others and all these neat maps and photographs. It's very clear and easy to understand but not too dumbed down either, I appreciate some of the technical info. How you bring Mnt Nebo into geologic context is just the best reading. I really am a sucker for those U.S. paleomaps too. It all makes my head explode in a good way. I'm new to Substack. I love the idea. I really hope it catches on because content like yours IS the reason that it should suceed as I totally believe if more people could try Substack they would fall in love with authors such as you, I did. Good job and thanks for putting this out there for curious arm chair scientists to further geek out at the world and hopefully pass the torch on to my kids. Cheers!
Thanks for this article and lovely illustrations, including the reflective last photograph. I enjoy your posts and learn a lot from your writing. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into creating them.
Utah has some fantastic drives, doesn't it! I came up Price Canyon so I missed Mt Nebo. Maybe next time...And the almost 200 miles from Capitol Reef to Bluff, Utah was "wow" at almost every curve.
I had not heard of geology having 'fathers' Richard, I'll look that up. It is sad so many assume scripture says the Earth is only 6000 years old, since the very first sentence in the Bible says it was made long, long before the 6 "days" of developments on it.
Two books about the 'fathers' - Giants of Geology, by Fenton & Fenton, and The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences, by Adams. And "The role of women in the history of Geology," by Burek.
What a lovely write-up Richard. I really enjoyed this. You have a gift with writing weaving your past work with others and all these neat maps and photographs. It's very clear and easy to understand but not too dumbed down either, I appreciate some of the technical info. How you bring Mnt Nebo into geologic context is just the best reading. I really am a sucker for those U.S. paleomaps too. It all makes my head explode in a good way. I'm new to Substack. I love the idea. I really hope it catches on because content like yours IS the reason that it should suceed as I totally believe if more people could try Substack they would fall in love with authors such as you, I did. Good job and thanks for putting this out there for curious arm chair scientists to further geek out at the world and hopefully pass the torch on to my kids. Cheers!
Thanks for the nice words! Much appreciated, and I'm glad things like this are interesting to you.
Thanks for this article and lovely illustrations, including the reflective last photograph. I enjoy your posts and learn a lot from your writing. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into creating them.
Thanks! I appreciate it very much.
Utah has some fantastic drives, doesn't it! I came up Price Canyon so I missed Mt Nebo. Maybe next time...And the almost 200 miles from Capitol Reef to Bluff, Utah was "wow" at almost every curve.
I had not heard of geology having 'fathers' Richard, I'll look that up. It is sad so many assume scripture says the Earth is only 6000 years old, since the very first sentence in the Bible says it was made long, long before the 6 "days" of developments on it.
Thanks for your work.
Two books about the 'fathers' - Giants of Geology, by Fenton & Fenton, and The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences, by Adams. And "The role of women in the history of Geology," by Burek.