Some years ago Dan Mathews and I wrote “America From the Air: A Guide to the Landscape Above Your Route”, which was published by HoughtonMifflin in 2007. The book described locations seen from the most travelled commercial air routes in the lower 48 states, as well as the route from Seattle to Anchorage. We wrote an entry for locations these routes fly above every 20 minutes. Each entry included an image printed at the scale of about 1:200,000, roughly the scale we see 30,000 feet above the ground.

There were many North American locations we did not discuss. These were on less popular routes, or were “too close” to locations that met the 20 minute rule. This blog will include some of these locations, as well as views from flights outside North America.

One of the pleasures of geology is examining features across a range of scales. Some entries will deal with rather small outcrops, ones you might encounter along a stream or on a trail. Other entries will deal with very large features, up to the scale of the Earth.

Blogs will be posted as time and material permit.