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Showing posts with label Mudflow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mudflow. Show all posts
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Landslides and Slope Mitigation in California's Great Valley...Wait...What?

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  I used to talk to my students about the geological hazards that we face as inhabitants of California's Great Valley (or Central Valley...
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Saturday, January 21, 2023

A Short Primer on Mass Wasting, Courtesy of California's Atmospheric River Storms

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I live in California's Great Valley, known to some as the plain old "Central Valley", and most know it as a very flat place. A...
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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Travels in Death Valley: the Strange Story Told By a "Rock"...

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A beautiful collection of colorful rocks lie scattered across the surface of an alluvial fan in Death Valley National Park a few miles sou...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Dunmovin? Not quite...check out this mudflow

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With appreciation to The Guzzler , take a look at a mudflow just south of Owens Lake on Highway 395 near the settlement of Dunmovin. There w...
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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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