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Monday, October 13, 2025

Why did the Road Cross the San Andreas Fault? 23 Years of Geologic Change (a new Update)

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2002 I've been leading geology field studies trips to lots of places in the American West for 37 years and started to take digital p...
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Thursday, October 9, 2025

The Things We Don't Think About: The Aftermath of a Major Earthquake from a Great Valley Perspective

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The Great Shakeout is planned for Oct. 16, 2025, at 10:16 AM.  Source: U.S. Geological Survey We Californians live in earthquake country. ...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

What If an Earthquake was Predicted to Happen in Four Days? What Would You Do??

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 The Great Shakeout is planned for Oct. 16, 2025, at 10:16 AM.  And why aren't you doing it now?! Art by Zeo NOTE: THIS IS HYPOTHETICAL...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Journeys in the Back of Beyond: Wait, This is a National Park?

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  Pack up your stuff kids! We're going to a NATIONAL PARK! Cool! Does it have big mountains? No. Oh, does it have deep canyons? No. Can ...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

Journeys in the Back of Beyond: Simply Driving to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon (!?)

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Running a geology field studies course is nothing if not stressful. Right on the heels of the most intense storm I've experienced on o...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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