Maine Geology Hikes

An assortment of stones at Kettle Cove,  including white quartz and gray phyllite  Chasing my fifteen month old son at Kettle Cove beac...

When I was young I had an inflatable clown with weights on the bottom, so you could administer whatever childhood battering you cared to, a...

As an adult, I sometimes forget to ask the obvious questions.  Kids, though, they have their heads on straight.  Living near the coast, I ha...

An annual glacial moraine. Twenty-one thousand years ago glaciers covered the northern part of the globe.  Their end point in New Englan...

The Massabesic Gneiss looks like ice cream swirled with fudge because of heat and pressure from 500 million years on the surface It...

I hadn't taken into account that water has a way of exploiting a weak point.  On geologic maps, a black line with arrows on one side su...

I tend to write blog posts in the order I become interested in them.  I may include how long ago events occurred, but when you're dealin...