The Deccan traps formed during the eruption of a volcano that took place around 66 million years ago and resulted in the end of the Cretaceous period.

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera -- located in ...

Yellowstone is most famous for huge explosive eruptions that create large calderas. Outside Yellowstone Caldera, however, ...

Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the ...

Scores of different wildflowers atop Lower and Upper Table Rocks near Medford make for some majestic islands in the sky.

From Spokane to Seattle, Bellingham to the Columbia River Gorge, Washington has a bounty of beautiful destinations for ...

Have you ever stood before a landscape so breathtaking, so ancient, that you felt the weight of millions of years pressing ...

Yakima Skyline Trail (Yakima, WA) Roughly 80 miles from TriCities, this gorgeous 4.4-mile trail overlooks the Yakima Valley combines moderate hiking with fields of vibrant wildflowers, views of ther ...

I was so fixated on the grand sprawl that is Wheeler County, so focused on its tens of thousands of acres of rimrock canyons ...