Showing posts with label The Sierra Beyond Yosemite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Sierra Beyond Yosemite. Show all posts
Friday, January 28, 2022

Stuck Between a Volcano and a Hard Place (part 2): Politics and Geology Square Off in a Small Town with a Big Problem

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I've been more and more concerned about the public damage being done to the scientific community and larger society as politics has swir...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: Politics and Geology Square Off in a Town with a Big Problem

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Twin Lakes, above the town of Mammoth Lakes on the edge of the Long Valley Caldera So what happened in Mammoth Lakes? In the last po...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: Exploring One of the World's Largest Volcanic Eruptions...Ever. And a Problem

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There is a story I tell on the first day of almost every class I teach. It's about a place filled with the evidence of one of the grea...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: Wait! Is that...a Glacier?

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People who visit Yosemite Valley often think about glaciers. Even those with no geologic background quickly become aware of the role of gl...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: A Stunning Impenetrable Wall of Solid Rock

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Mount Whitney from the Alabama Hills in the Owens Valley Impenetrable. The imaginary mountain barrier surrounding Mordor in the Lord of ...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

The Sierra Beyond Yosemite: Where the Sierra Ends (maybe), and Gold

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In some places it is pretty clear where the Sierra Nevada ends. For a hundred miles or more there is a solid rock wall that reaches a hei...
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