A struggling #California region is suddenly poised to become wealthy.
I hope they can find a way to get it out without damaging pristine #desert, but enough of the area has been damaged by #agriculture or misuse that they might be able to find a way to mine it without causing actual damage to the #environment. Maybe.
Well, I didn't have anywhere to go on Thanksgiving, so I wrote a blog post about the roving mud spring of Salton Sea that has been eating railroads, roads and anything else in its path.
Someone here posted about it, so I had to go see it for myself when I was in the area a week ago. I have "a thing" for weird geology.
It seems like an opportune time to repost this one. Here's a retrofuture sea level rise map for #CoachellaValley and #SaltonSea with 66m of sea level rise—if all the world’s ice caps melted.