Maine Geology Hikes
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Through the Past and into the Future: A View from the Harpswell Cliffs
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The cliff walk in Harpswell lives up to its name. The trail makes a turn and dumps you out on a view worth far more than the effort require...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Say Goodbye to Graptolites...
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Graptolite fossils from Presque Isle I t's hard to get sentimental about graptolites. The fossil of what's actually a colony of...
Sunday, October 12, 2014
The Long View: Half a Billion Years in the County
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The view from State Street in Presque Isle This August I spent a week in mythic Aroostook County. Throughout my week there I navig...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Skipping Stones at Kettle Cove
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An assortment of stones at Kettle Cove, including white quartz and gray phyllite Chasing my fifteen month old son at Kettle Cove beac...
Friday, July 18, 2014
Tipping the Clown: Changing Density in the Deer Isle Granite
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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...
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Salt of the Earth: The Source of Sodium and Chlorine in Our Oceans
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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...
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Groundtruth: Finding Annual Moraines in My Backyard
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An annual glacial moraine. Twenty-one thousand years ago glaciers covered the northern part of the globe. Their end point in New Englan...
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