Most Popular Posts from 2010

Yes, it's the time of year when many bloggers go all retrospective on you, at least to some extent, and so I've made a list. Included here are my Top Twenty geological posts as ranked by a complicated cobbled-together .xls formula combining several different sets of stats (see endnote), along with a smattering of other noteworthy posts, particularly some near the beginning of the year when I had incomplete analytics. I've listed these prime posts by date.

January-March

• The Caliente Series & Caliente Camp Series


• The Eureka Quartzite at Lone Mountain


• The Road to Jarbidge: Salmon Falls Dam


• Unakite!


• What is Continuity?


• Where in the West: March 2010 (answers here and here)


• Geological Mysteries of the Book Kind

April-July

• Baked... Lake Sediments?


• Questions about Drilling


• Mt. St. Helens Field Trip


• Finding a Thesis: Pole Line to Belmont


• Serpentine: A Group of Minerals (number one of all time so far, the #CASerpentine issue)


• Where it All Began


• Whence the Geoblogosphere

August

• Oregon Trip Day 1: A Brewery, Some Geology, Wildlife...


• Oregon Trip Day 2: A Hike near Jarbidge across Two Rhyolites


• Oregon Trip Day 3: Hoodoos, a Snake, more Rhyolite, and Another Brewery


• Travel Tuesday: A Dusty Road


• Oregon Trip Day 4: Coffee, Fossils, Formations, Basalt, and Brew


• Oregon Trip Day 7: A Volcano Observatory


• Travel Tuesday: Cliff near Summer Lake, Oregon

September-December

• A Highway 50 Series


• Blackhawk Landslide Links & Danger in the Mojave (also see Blackhawk: Truly Pathological my first post at Pathological Geomorphology)


• Seeking Exposure


• Where in the West: October 2010 (answer here)


• Highway 8A: The Cutoff from Cedarville to the Winnemucca-to-the-Sea Highway


• Backroads: The Upper Part of Ophir Canyon


• Why Do I Like Geology


• To Map or Not to Map...


• Like caterpillars, crawling or marching...

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Note: Three of the stat programs I use don't go back to the beginning of the year: I've used FeedBurner stats for a couple-three years, started using PostRank during the middle of February, and started using Google Analytics toward the end of June. The internal Blogger stats only go back to early June and don't show stats for all posts, just the top ten. These several analytics programs came up with different rankings, with only the top two to three really agreeing (with FeedBurner being hard to evaluate), so besides combining the rankings, I also checked posts against comment popularity and added a few from the beginning of the year when analytic coverage was thin.