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Showing posts with label Pareidolia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pareidolia. Show all posts
Monday, December 11, 2017

Every Victory is Fragile, Every Loss is Catastrophic: Bear's Ears National Monument and the Valley of the Gods

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Bear's Ears National Monument is a magical place. It is a place of mystery and vast vistas, a place of sacredness to many people. It ...
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Monday, October 31, 2016

Pareidolia and Fall Foliage Art from the Sierra Nevada

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Pareidolia is a trick of our minds that can cause us to interpret random images or patterns of light and shadow as faces. We were in the S...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Our Tour of the Greatest National Park I Never Once Set Foot In

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Photo by Mrs. Geotripper The western slope of the Cascades Range is green. Very green. There are trees, shrubs, mosses, grasses, just ab...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Out in America's Never Never: Valley of the Gods, where pareidolia runs rampant

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Pareidolia is a very human tendency to perceive faces and significant forms in unlikely places, like on oddly shaped potatoes and burnt to...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Weird Geology: Accretionary Wedge #34...Our Human Nightmares

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Well, how about that? I was trying to figure out how to squeeze in a bizarre shot from my recent trip to Joshua Tree National Park, and the ...
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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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