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Monday, November 9, 2015

The Karst Topography...of California? California has Natural Bridges, and not Just in Santa Cruz

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I've been reviewing some of the stops on our recent field studies course through the karst country of California. This landscape is th...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Where the Rivers are "Upside-Down": A Hike to the Stanislaus Table Mountain

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Around 10 million years ago, a lava flow surged from a volcano near present-day Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada. Composed of latite, but ...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

The Sierra Nevada Underground: Natural Bridges of Gold Rush Country

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In our last post we had a look at one of the showcase caves of the Sierra Nevada, Moaning Caverns . They are well-known, if for no reason ...
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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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