Posted: July 2006
Title: Volcán Poás in Costa Rica
Contributed by: William Szelistowski, Eckerd College
Text: Two views of the stratovolcano Volcán Poás in Costa Rica... (more)

Posted: June 2006
Title: The Pacific Plate Meets the Australian Plate in New Zealand
Contributed by: Kevin Furlong, Penn State University
Text: Exposure of the Alpine Fault at Gaunt Creek, New Zealand (view looking south). This is one of the best exposed sections of a dominantly strike-slip fault, made visible because of a landslide that exposed the fault... (more)

Posted: May 2006
Title: “Drunken Forest” in Colorado
Contributed by: Edith Jaurrieta
Text: Photo showing tilted tress in the "drunken forest". The trees grow atop the Slumgullion earthflow, which is four miles long and 2000 feet wide, near Lake City, CO... (more)

Posted: April 2006
Title: Owens Valley, California
Contributed by: Dr. Susan Hough, USGS
Text: The 1872 M7.6 Owens Valley earthquake struck near the eastern Sierra town of Lone Pine, killing 27 of the town's estimated population of 250-300.... (more)

Posted: March 2006
Title: San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain in Southern California
Contributed by: Dr. Susan Hough, USGS
Text: Viewed from the air, the San Andreas fault has subtle expression in this part of the Carrizo Plain in southern California... (more)

Posted: February 2006
Title: Saddle Island Detachment Fault
Contributed by: Catherine M. Snelson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Text: This photo shows a view of the Saddle Island Detachment Fault (yellow line) in Lake Mead, NV, which was taken from the University of Nevada Forever Earth boat... (more)

Posted: February 2006
Title: Imaging sinkholes using seismic experiments
Contributed by: Catherine M. Snelson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Text: This photo from Nevada shows a seismic reflection/refraction experiment to image one of several potential sinkholes (as shown by the yellow dashed line) on an alluvial fan in the Virgin Mountains south of Mesquite, NV... (more)

Posted: January 2006
Title: A normal fault in the Río Grande Rift
Contributed by: Steven Semken, Arizona State University
Text: The photograph shows the field exposure of a normal dip-slip fault near Abiquiu, New Mexico, on the western side of the Río Grande Rift, an intracontinental zone of Cenozoic crustal extension, subsidence, and volcanism... (more)