Showing posts with label Bodie Ghost Town. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bodie Ghost Town. Show all posts
Monday, October 23, 2017

Ghosts of the Empty Lands East of the Sierra Nevada: The Town of Bodie

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The Matterhorn Crest of the Sierra Nevada from Bridgeport. Bodie is another twenty miles to the east. Central California is almost liter...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Two Magnitude 5.7 Earthquakes Strike Western Nevada, Felt over a Wide Region

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Things are shaking back home, and of course I'm hundreds of miles away. Two moderate earthquakes, both magnitude 5.7, struck in the B...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: Where the Sierra Ends (maybe), and Gold

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In some places it is pretty clear where the Sierra Nevada ends. For a hundred miles or more there is a solid rock wall that reaches a hei...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

A Gallery of Sierra Nevada Scenes: Part I

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Tufa towers on southwest shore of Mono Lake If Geotripper has been quiet of late, there is a pretty good reason: I've been on the ro...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A bit of the Wild West remains at Bodie

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The Colorado Plateau obviously is not the only harsh and difficult environment for the survival and well-being of human beings. For severa...
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Sunday, December 6, 2009

The Other California: Geology and our State Symbols, Part IV

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The lands to the east of the Sierra Nevada are barren. In the rain shadow of the High Sierra, the hills to the east are dry, mostly treeles...
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