The Great Sand Dunes – as seen through the lens of ‘Written in Stone’

Earlier this year, I discovered a superb geological and photographic blog
that I had not encountered before. ‘Written In
Stone…seen through my lens’is by Jack Share, who describes himself as
follows:

I was the kid in the Jackson Browne song “in ’65 I was seventeen”, when my
educational efforts were directed toward a degree in zoology and a career in the
health professions. Years later, the fossils I found as a kid in Central New
York led me to paleontology, their evolutionary relationships and to
developmental biology. It wasn’t long before I came to appreciate the importance
of an education grounded in geology. Former life and former landscapes are
indeed inseparable. In this blog I offer an interpretive and photographic
perspective of our world, both past and present, and both within my New England
home and well beyond.

Jack wrote to me about his two posts on the Great Sand Dunes of Colorado, the
first a comprehensive geological review (the ‘the juicy geological
details’), the
second a photographic essay, ‘Climbing the geology of the dunes.’ I
thoroughly recommend a visit to these posts – and to the rest of the blog. Jack
has a natural ability to write clearly and informatively but also to make
geology fun, and his photographs are great. As a lure, here is a selection
(reproduced with his permission). SIGNATURE

Comments

Hollis (2013-09-23):

I agree – really great blog. Wish he would post more often ;-)

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