Showing posts with label Franciscan Complex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Franciscan Complex. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Damning Del Puerto Canyon, a Geological and Natural Treasure in our County

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I awoke this morning mildly astonished to see my own words making up the headline of a Modesto Bee article about a proposed dam in Del Puert...
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Sunday, May 26, 2019

What to do on a Saturday? Let's Go to the Middle of the Earth (via Del Puerto Canyon)!

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The strange and alien landscape in upper Del Puerto Canyon. California has some really strange landscapes. A state that has beaches, mou...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Unusual Unconformity on California's Lost Coast

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Will someone save the unconformity? It's going to gone soon! Well, okay, there's not much to be done about it, being that the ex...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: Exploring the Belly of the Beast in the Diablo Range

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A long time ago (a few weeks; that's years in internet time) I began this series about driving through the most dangerous plate bound...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: Terra Fatale on the Marin Headlands

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In the old film noir movies, the femme fatale was a staple character, an attractive and seductive woman, especially one who brought disa...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: Welcome to Geology's Junk Drawer

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View from Muir Beach Overlook towards the Marin Headlands I'm pretty sure every household has a junk drawer. It's that place wh...