Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Apex POTATOe on the Discord Sever asks, Gary, much like you, I have a background in geology. What would you say are the most geologically interesting places you would recommend visiting? Thanks for being such a gneiss guy. I lava your show.

A good question. In no particular order, and based on places I’ve actually visited, I’d say:

The Black Hills of South Dakota. You can find some of the best samples of metamorphic minerals there. At least the best I’ve ever seen.

Nearby Devils Tower in Wyoming, and also in Wyoming, the Wind River Gorge. In Arizona, you’d have to put the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater.

The Big Island of Hawaii has so much interesting volcanism all over the island.

The Verfort Dome in South Africa, Purnululu National Park in the Kimberly Region of Western Australia, the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, the Dead Sea, Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, the Cenotes in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, Mount Bromo in Indonesia, Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas, and Plitvice National Park in Croatia.