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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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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Exploring the Depths of the Grand Canyon...By Car?

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The Grand Canyon is one of the great spectacles of the Earth. Millions of people every year stand on the edge of the abyss and peer in, ...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Into the Great Unknown: Catching an Iconic Scene in the Grand Canyon, and a Bi-colored River

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It was a busy summer. I'd like to say that I prepared extensively for my journey into the Great Unknown by getting to know the Colora...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

What's Missing From This Picture? Only a billion years or so...

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Geology is good for perspective. The bookends of this particular day: the very very long hour spent trying to restart a dead car in a rem...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Time Beyond Imagining - A Brief History of the Colorado Plateau, Part 3: LIFE!

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Fossils! Do you remember that first moment that you found a fossil as a child? Or did you never have that experience? I vividly remember exp...
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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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