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Showing posts with label Jurassic Period. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jurassic Period. Show all posts
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Hunting for Fossils in the Sierra Nevada...Wait a Minute, What Fossils are there in Granite?

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Photo by Mrs. Geotripper Last night I attended a great presentation on the dinosaurs and other (more interesting) Mesozoic reptiles foun...
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Saturday, April 2, 2011

The Other California: Spring Arrives in the Prairie Lands

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California has a rather sullied reputation these days; a lingering depression (at least in our Central Valley), high unemployment, urban ni...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

A Present-Day Gondwanaland Forest

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I am using today's post as a bridge back to my continuing story of the real Jurassic Parks (and Cretaceous Parks) on the Colorado ...
Thursday, September 4, 2008

The Real Jurassic Parks: Navajo!

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If the question arises as to what formation is responsible for the most dramatic scenery in all the Colorado Plateau, the Navajo Sandstone w...
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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...
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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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