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Showing posts with label Salinian Block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salinian Block. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2015

Driving Across the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: These Rocks are All Wrong!

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The view from Muir Beach Overlook, midway between San Francisco and Point Reyes National Seashore Point Reyes National Seashore: Is i...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Where the Sierra Nevada Rises From the Sea: A Compilation of Posts

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The Sierra Nevada of California is one of the great mountain ranges of the world. The soaring granite peaks, the deep glacial valleys...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Where the Sierra Nevada Rises From the Sea: Birds and a Hole in the Head at Bodega

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Sea stacks at Bodega Head, with the Point Reyes peninsula in the distance We are reaching the end of my series on the Central Californi...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

Where the Sierra Nevada Rises From the Sea: Tomales Bay and Bolinas Lagoon

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Let's cross back onto North America for a short bit. In this off and on series about the most beautiful coastline in the world we ha...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Where the Sierra Nevada Rises from the Sea: Point Reyes National Seashore

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Drake's Beach, with outcrops of Purisima Formation that reminded early sailors of Dover. Around 30 million years ago major parts ...
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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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