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Showing posts with label Canyonlands National Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canyonlands National Park. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: A day in the canyonlands, part 4

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The nice thing about blogging is that one gets to set one's own rules and deadlines. I'm easily distracted and can drift from one ...
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Monday, September 1, 2008

The Colorado Plateau Story: the real Jurassic Parks

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Today we make a return to our series on the geologic story of the Colorado Plateau . The Mesozoic Era left a stunning variety of rocks acros...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Time Beyond Imagining - A Brief History of the Colorado Plateau: The Real Jurassic Parks

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As we move forward in time, we reach the geologic period called the Jurassic , one of the few units of the geologic time scale that is fami...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Time Beyond Imagining - A Brief History of the Colorado Plateau: A Final Transgression

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With today's post we reach the rim of the Grand Canyon, and the end of the Paleozoic rocks of the Colorado Plateau. But these pictures ...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Time Beyond Imagining - A Brief History of the Colorado Plateau: Old Salt

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So, what do the Arches at Arches National Park, the Potash Mine just outside Canyonlands National Park, the tragic 2008 earthquake in the...
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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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