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Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

A Bird Shangri-La No More: The Moas of New Zealand

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Blogging always involves a little bit of free association, where inspiration comes from numerous unrelated events over the course of a few...
Sunday, January 4, 2015

Middle-Earth Here on our Planet? Some Geo-thoughts After the Last Tolkien Movie

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Mt. Ruapahu, an active volcano on the North Island of New Zealand A new world came into being a little over eighty years ago. It formed ...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Christchurch, New Zealand Hit by Magnitude 7.0 Quake: Should Californians Pay Attention? What About God?

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Update, February 22, 2011: A horrific aftershock of magnitude 6.3 struck the Christchurch area yesterday, and dozens of people have been kil...
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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Another "Miss"-Adventure, and why I'm busy these days

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A "miss"-adventure : missing the chance to see something important by mis-scheduling, missing a turnoff, getting rained or snowed...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

A Present-Day Gondwanaland Forest

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I am using today's post as a bridge back to my continuing story of the real Jurassic Parks (and Cretaceous Parks) on the Colorado ...
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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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