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Category Archives: Earth Science
Artifacts, Bones, and Cache Pits
For six generations, the children in our family have looked for adventure down in the pasture along Kanaranzi Creek. And, they’ve found it: fishing and hunting, building rafts and shacks, picking up unique rocks and shells, and picking wild plums … Continue reading
Posted in Earth Science, Farm History
Tagged arrowheads, buffalo bones, cache pits, role model
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Channel Bank Erosion
The Kanaranzi Creek has had sustained flows at high water levels over much of the past two years. As a result, very active erosion has exposed a whole variety of features. This is a view of the high channel bank … Continue reading
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Tagged alluvium, boulder, cache pit, erosion, glacial gravel, stream channel
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Water Levels in the Oxbow
This has been a really nice spring. The cold winter weather didn’t just slam into hot summer. We had a lot of sunshine in April; only about a quarter of the days were overcast. In contrast, last year about half … Continue reading
Kanaranzi Creek and Covid-19
The last two years we’ve had record rainfall and Kanaranzi Creek has changed a lot because of it. Although the spring melts have not produced much flooding, the summer “rain bombs” have resulted in bank-full flows sustained over long periods … Continue reading
Posted in Earth Science
Tagged air photos, channel changes, Covid-19, deposition, erosion, scientific process
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Rural Fall
We had about two inches of snow the other night, but it blew into drifts. Several weeks ago, we had our first accumulating snow that stayed on the level. I had forgotten how much traffic is recorded in a few … Continue reading
Posted in Earth Science, Life Science
Tagged autumn, coyotes, eagles, fall, snow, tracks, trees
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Snowbound
Earlier this week we were snowbound in Colorado. The first storm dropped about 10 inches on our kids’ home in the mountains west of Boulder. The snow piled up on the trees and then fell a second time when the … Continue reading
Equinox Week
It happens twice a year. The polished surfaces of tombstones facing east, light up to reflect the sunrise. It shows up as a brilliant bright line at the base of the trees on the horizon in this photo that Margaret … Continue reading
Ice Age Animals
Last week we left the Farm on a quick, nostalgic trip to the Black Hills. We did all the “touristy” things that we haven’t done for decades, including the Mammoth Site at Hot Springs. My bright wife suggested that we … Continue reading
Posted in Earth Science, Farm History, Life Science
Tagged bison, Ice Age fossils, mammoths, paleontology
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Two Layers of Bones
This tooth was found several years ago on a sand bar along Kanaranzi Creek. It probably eroded out from the layer of gravel that’s buried beneath the Creek bed. And, it’s probably a tooth from a wooly mammoth. That suggests … Continue reading
Posted in Earth Science, Life Science
Tagged alluvium, buffalo bones, buffalo skulls, glacial gravel, Ice Age bones, mammoth tooth
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Lone Tree Farm on Kanaranzi Creek 