[kaktuskid]

Note to self: buy future ocean front property in Yuma.

[John H K]

I've recommended these books before but if you have even the slightest interest in geology, you should get the series of books by John McPhee where he traveled across the country with a series of Geologists (Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain,. Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California, and now all together in one book, Annals of the Former World, with an added 5th section contained within it about the Midwest.)

Anyway, in Basin and Range, McPhee sits at a diner in a small Nevada town, and the geologist explains that he thinks in millions of years the Gulf of California will run up into Nevada and all of California will split off, and then McPhee wanders around the town asking people what they think of that, and he gets some hilarious answers :-)

[GoRepGo]

Note to self: buy future ocean front property in Yuma.

You know, that thought has long been bantered around this area of Arizona since I was a wee child. However, with the Colorado River on the endangered list, beachfront property doesn't sound like a bad idea.