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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Where the Sierra Nevada Rises From the Sea: Half Moon Bay

There was a time when the seas lapped against the Sierra Nevada foothills. Around 50 million years ago, the Great Valley was a shallow se...

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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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