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Showing posts with label Tomales Bay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tomales Bay. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: Looking for the "Big One"

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Tomales Bay just might be the most contradictory places in all of California. On the one hand, it is one of the most peaceful and serene...
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...
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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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Not Seeing the San Andreas Fault in the Bay Area...

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The San Andreas fault is a major transform boundary that runs through much of California, and it is justly famous for damaging earthquakes, ...
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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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