GCA Community Lecture Series

The Grand Canyon Association Community Lecture Series continues February 18, 2009, with Wendell Duffield. He's a northern Arizona geologist who will speak about the San Francisco Volcanic Field that runs from Williams to Sunset Crater.

Cline Library
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff
7:00 p.m.

You can learn about Duffield's book at Volcanoes of Northern Arizona: Sleeping Giants of the Grand Canyon Region. Also, the Grand Canyon Association Bookstore should be set up to sell the book at the lecture.

I highly recommend the book and I'm really looking forward to the lecture.

Explore Arizona OIC Maps

Need maps of Arizona? Explore Arizona! Outdoor Information Center is operated by the Arizona Geological Survey, in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. If you're taking a trip to Phoenix, you might want to check out this store or lots of maps and information about Arizona. Some of the info is free--135 maps, fliers and brochures.

Location:

North Central Avenue, Suite 120
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602.417.9300
info@explorearizona.org

Havasupai at Arizona Geology Blog

From Lee Allison's Arizona Geology Blog on October 22, 2008: "The Havasupai Tribe announced a $1 million donation that will allow them to build an early warning system for floods and repair damage from the August flood that devastated their Grand Canyon home."

Please read the rest of the post and play the videos of the the flood.

This donation should help to assure that the Havasupai have warning should this type of disaster threaten them again.

Arizona Geology Blog

Today seems like a good day to take a virtual trip over to Arizona Geology, the blog of the State Geologist of Arizona. To find out about Lee Allison, the blog's author, State Geologist and Director Arizona Geological Survey, and his reasons for starting Arizona Geology, see his first post on January 1, 2007. It is entitled Arizona lives and dies by its geology.

You may actually want to go back and browse all of the posts. There is a lot of extremely interesting information in these blog archives. For instance, Basin & Range aquifers 4th most heavily used in nation is a very welcome post.

I've added Arizona Geology to The Conconino Chronicles' Blogs of Note in the sidebar.