Weather in the 70s. Cheap rental car. Mostly on the East Cape. Mucho tacos. Followed the dirt roads. Secret Garden AirBnB above Costa Azul beach. San Jose del Cabo. Secret Garden AirBnB. San Jose del Cabo. Sol de Mayo. 7 Palmas Cocina, San Jose del Cabo. Gorgeous high grade metamorphic rocks at Sol de Mayo waterfall near Santiago. Migmatite(?) at Sol de Mayo / Canon de la Zorra, Sierra de la Laguna (one of the Peninsular Ranges) Oh look, rotation relative to the enclosing mat

Outcrop sketch: For large outcrops, I will take a panoramic photo, draw a quick map, and make a sketch in my field book. If I have the time, I will print the color pano photo at full-page size, return to the outcrop, and transfer my field notes to the photograph using a pen. This step is where the rubber meets the road. I usually double the amount of information obtained up to that point. New questions will arise. The final interpretation is created in Adobe Illustrator (like

Photo: Prudhoe Bay c. 1974. A hundred years before Barrow became the industrial hub of Alaska's North Slope, oil seeps provided Inupiat tundra-dwellers with home heating fuel. They simply spooned it out of open pools near the beach. Geologists began exploring the North Slope for subterranean oil pools in the 1920s. Soon, the U.S. Navy got involved, assigning staff to projects involving the Arctic, including an assessment of the region's potential to supply the military with A

The Okanogan Valley runs 100km due north from Brewster, WA to the Canadian border; it provides a near perfect longitudinal profile through the Okanogan Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. The "kame terrace" system preserved there is extensive and accessible. I call them kame terraces for simplicity; their origin is certainly more complicated. Kame terraces are accumulations of glaciofluvial sediment, glaciolacustrine sediment, and till along the margin of a glacier, between th