Columnar-joint patterns in lavas, and their defects, geometrically resemble honeycombs, graphene, animal territories, and other phenomena.

Flow of the Colorado River depends in part on how much moisture the Colorado drainage gets this winter.

Torres del Paine and Split Mountain share strong similarities, but the latter lies along the faulted eastern margin of the Sierra Nevada and was thus resistant to glaciation.

Split Mountain in California bears a strong resemblance to Torres del Paine. It is also much more accessible.

Remarkable similarities between the iconic granite complex in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, and Split Mountain in eastern California.

When Death Valley experiences bad weather, Badwater Road gets hammered by floods caused by the diversion of Furnace Creek Wash—a fully predictable problem

Eighty years ago a bulldozer and a little dynamite were used to divert Furnace Creek into little Gower Gulch. Did it work?

The mouth of Furnace Creek Wash has a beautiful view, but it is a terrible place to build stuff, especially when it rains.