Halka Chronic (February 26, 1923 – April 16, 2013) was a geologist who traveled and wrote books about the geology of the western United States.
Halka spent her childhood summers in Corona Del Mar, California with her mother, an artist, and her brother, Karl.
[2] The couple was based in Boulder, Colorado, but Halka and her husband traveled frequently, spending a year at a time in Scotland, Ethiopia, Australia, and Puerto Rico.
Although the couple eventually separated, Halka continued traveling on her own to Mexico, Norway, Poland, China, and Latin America.
Halka traveled to Ethiopia in the late 1940s and taught at Haile Selassie University; when she came back she worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) as a writer for eight years.