ShareIn this month’s Traveler Calendar we told of “The Earth Moves Under our Feet” program being presented by Edith Starbuck at Onondaga Cave State Park. The state park is rather quiet this time of year, but since February is Missouri’s Earthquake Awareness Month, they’ve tried to do something to educate the public ever since one [...]

ShareSome people just like to thumb their noses at the gods of Fate.
Why else would the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium, a group of earthquake science and emergency preparedness agencies, schedule their regionwide earthquake drill for February 7, the exact date of the last, and perhaps the most severe of the four largest New [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
On the geology front, news came January 4 that Alberici Construction and MFC of Canada have partnered to take over the Pea Ridge iron mine, just south of Sullivan. Traveler readers might be familiar with the area from the Pea Ridge conservation area

Share(This article is a taste of the print Traveler… or Jo’s part, anyway. In addition to my other duties, since 2006, I’ve come up with a monthly article on some aspect of the geology/hydrology or landscape related southeast or south central Missouri topics called Rock Talk. This month we were so crammed with stuff it [...]

ShareOk, this isn’t even Missouri. But the largest recorded earthquake to ever hit Oklahoma happened last night at 10:31, near the town of Sparks, partway between Oklahoma and Muskogee.
The quake recorded 5.6 on the Richter scale, and followed a 4.7 quake earlier in the day. Damage included a buckled highway, and one injured, and light [...]

ShareA 3.6 magnitude earthquake has been reported 3 miles SE of Grandin, Missouri, at 6:32 CDT, according to the US Geological Survey and Missouri Division of Geology and Land Survey. The quake epicenter was about 10 miles deep.
No injuries nor substantial damage has been reported.

ShareJo note: Anyplace that invites people to look at the rock and fossil case, then has an evening talk on of geology has to be good!
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Mark Twain Lake would like to invite the public to come celebrate the 18th Annual National Public Lands Day on September 24th with [...]

ShareDo you want to know how your favorite trout stream is running? If the Current has enough water to canoe? How high the water is during a flood
For the last 10 years or so you’ve had the ability to look this up via US Geological Survey Water Resources web pages.

ShareRoadside Geology of Missouri
Charles G. Spencer Mountain Press
978-0-87842-573-0
274 pages $20.00
Reviewed by Jo Schaper
When I heard that Charles Spencer (whom I don’t think I know…maybe I do) had written Roadside Geology of Missouri I had an immediate twinge of regret.
Back in the 1980s I had investigated what it took to write such an addition [...]

ShareGargoyle Country: The Inspiring Geology of Springfield and Green County
Jerry D. Vineyard Watershed Press
No ISBN
137 pages. $24.95 (See text for ordering)
Reviewed by Jo Schaper
The name, “Gargoyle Country” comes from the pockmarked and strangely weathered shapes of local limestone (primarily the Burlington, although similar strata weather into weird shapes as well) seen along the bluffs, [...]