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Showing posts with label Spokane Floods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spokane Floods. Show all posts
Sunday, October 26, 2014

The Blind Men and the Elephant, as Told by Geologists: The Channeled Scablands of Washington

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A dry channel in basalt on the Columbia Plateau in central Washington (photo by Mrs. Geotripper) I'm sure most are familiar with the...
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

A Convergence of Wonders: Day 6, In the Land of the Great Draining

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The young man was stalking an elk along the shore of the huge lake where he had lived for much of his short life. Stepping quietly through ...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

A Convergence of Wonders: Day 5, In the Land of the Great Flood

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In the movie "A River Runs Through It", the narrator ends with the following, one of my favorite quotes in any movie... Then in t...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

"Are We There Yet?" In Geology, the Journey is the Destination

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Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, if written the way some people might take a trip to a special place like a national park or recreation area...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Disasters, Literary and Literal...

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I remember journalism class from junior high: the five 'W's, who, what, where, when and why, and always present BOTH sides of the s...
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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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