The Rock Behind the Climb

My Photos of the area https://imgur.com/gallery/CrqyGPd  - photos of the area Mountain Project Links to the climbs I did on the Emigrant Wall https://www.mountainproject.com/area/113406457/emigrant-wall - Emigrant Wall General Page https://www.mountainproject.com/route/115402735/high-plains-drifter - High Plains Drifter 5.6 https://www.mountainproject.com/route/119566274/trackless-wilderness - Trackless Wilderness 5.9 Sources for this episode and the next https://gis.ess.washington.edu/keck/ARG-CV-2006_updated_files/gillespie_tahoe_glaciation.pdf - glaciation http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/ScienceEducation/ScienceOfTheComstock/EarthScience-RegionalGeology.html - nevada basin https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015TC003859 - north american batholith placement http://rockmass.net/phd/appendix1.pdf - types of joints http://www.files.ethz.ch/structuralgeology/JPB/files/English/4joints.pdf - more on jointing https://askanearthspacescientist.asu.edu/top-question/colum...

 In this episode I deliver some announcements about the podcast and then continue the discussion about columnar jointing in the Bishop Tuff at Deadman Summit that I started last episode. Below are the links to some of the sources that I used: Link to Episode 3.5: https://soundcloud.com/quinn-todzo/trbtc-episode-35-announcements-and-columnar-jointing-discussion Link to Episode 3: Deadman Summit: Introduces the climbing at Deadman https://askanearthspacescientist.asu.edu/top-question/columnar-jointing - Introductory article by  Karla Moeller about columnar jointing https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82526546.pdf - "Sy mmet ry In a Natural Fracture Pattern: The Origin of Columnar Joint Networks" Norman H. Gray. Paper describes the alternate theory about how hexagonal columns form based on fracture junctions rather than area to crack length ratio http://rockmass.net/phd/appendix1.pdf - general information about rock joints