remote sensing

An expansive view of most of Colorado looking from the south-south-west from the International Space Station (ISS). Photo credit: NASA.

Geology

April 8, 2022

NASA Earth Observatory

One of our favorite online feeds is from the NASA Earth Observatory along with their…

The gas well pad near the terminus of the West Salt Creek rock avalanche (flow direction right to left), Mesa County, Colorado, May 2014. Photo credit: Colorado Geological Survey.

Hazards

January 23, 2017

Top-Ten paper at GSA

On May 25, 2014 the longest landslide in Colorado’s historical record occurred in west-central Colorado, six miles (10 km) southeast of the small…