Carolina Visits Us (and the Cool Geology)

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Carolina had a free weekend this summer! So what's a girl to do but drive up and hang out with her favoritest other geologists- US?! 

Even though she drove nearly 400 miles to reach us she was game to explore the geology of the central Motherlode and Sonora Pass areas. The first day we visited Black Chasm to observe the rare and delicate helictites while Z was at his play rehearsal. We thought it would be a great way to escape the heat and it was. 

The second day we decided to make a LONG day of it and drove all the way up and over Sonora Pass stopping along the way at Knights Ferry (to admire the inverted topography), Columns of the Giants, Leavitt Falls Overlook (to see the Little Walker Caldera) and a few miles of off-trail hiking looking for some petrified wood fragments. 

We finished the day with dinner at The Rock restaurant in Twain Harte and then went to the Twain Harte Lake Rock that famously exfoliated explosively in 2015 as seen in the video below the photos. 

Geological Analyssis of Exfoliation Event