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Showing posts with label Desert Gold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Desert Gold. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2019

Tales From the Semi-Super-Bloom Tour, Part 2: Death Valley National Park

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The Desert Five-Spot ( Eremalche rotundifolia ) has to be one of my favorite desert wildflowers. I don't see it often because it is r...
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Monday, March 21, 2016

Scenes from a Superbloom (Part 2), and Evidence of a Snowball Earth (in Death Valley???)

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Death Valley is a wondrous place at any time of the year, although it can be darned uncomfortable. There is value, however, in understandi...
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Scenes from a Superbloom: Death Valley 2016 (Part 1 of 2)

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I could have made up a detailed geological description of the geology of this alluvial plain at the south end of the Death Valley graben. ...
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Invitation to a Drive-by Shooting (of a Superbloom) in Death Valley

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Telescope Peak (11,043 feet) and the Death Valley graben and salt pan Death Valley is one of the greatest geological national parks in t...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Out of the Valley of Death: A bit of life hangs on

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Desert Gold near Ashford Mill A visit to Death Valley generally comes with an expectation that conditions are going to be dry. The valle...
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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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