Does that rock have dip? No, this is not another food metaphor! Dip is a technical geologic term meaning the orientation of a rock layer in 3 dimensional space. This property has to do with both direction and magnitude of the angle that a rock layer slants away from that famous horizontal plane. The line that [...]
The last thing on anyone's mind around the Powder River valley is earthquake. Granted we are in a pretty low risk area for earthquake but we are not in the lowest possible category. In fact, according to the United States Geologic Survey, we have a 2% probability of exceeding 1/10th of the force of gravity (horizontally) [...]