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Showing posts with label Dead Sea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dead Sea. Show all posts
Saturday, March 10, 2018

How Low Can You Go? Badwater Basin, and a Real Hell on Earth

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Salt flats at Badwater, -282 feet. The snowcapped mountain in the distance is Telescope Peak, 11,049 feet. How bad could it be?...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

The Other California (uh, it's in Nevada...): Damned if you do dam, damned if you don't dam

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Rivers are often damned by damming. Lakes are often made by dams. But sometimes lakes are damned by dams. And somehow these sentences relate...
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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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