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Showing posts with label Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2019

Travels in Cascadia: Burial Mounds of the Kings of the Rohirrim? The Mima Mounds of Washington

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NOTE : If this post seems familiar, it should be. I posted it just a month ago . I'm re-posting (with minor changes) to place it in t...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Burial Mounds of the Kings of the Rohirrim? Got a Better Idea? The Mima Mounds of Washington

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One of the vivid images in my mind of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was the resting place of the Kings of Rohan. They were buried in mound...
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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Saturday's Mystery Photo Revealed: They're Mima Mounds!

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Scale is everything. This morning's mystery photo could have been on another planet, a satellite image of somewhere on Earth, a few i...
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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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