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Showing posts with label Messinian Salinity Crisis. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Messinian Salinity Crisis. Show all posts

Saturday, March 10, 2018

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

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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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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