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Showing posts with label cinder cone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cinder cone. Show all posts
Monday, February 27, 2017

Volcanoes in the Mist (and underground): Travels in Death Valley

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The Inyo Mountains, in any other setting in the world, would be considered a major mountain range, preserved as a national park perhaps, a...
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Friday, June 24, 2016

The Hawai'i That Was: Walking a Lake of Fire in "the Little Source of Great Spewing"

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Kilauea Iki eruption in 1959. The prevailing winds caused debris to pile up behind the fountain, forming the Pu'u Pau'i cinder con...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Invitation to a Drive-by Shooting (of a Superbloom) in Death Valley

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Telescope Peak (11,043 feet) and the Death Valley graben and salt pan Death Valley is one of the greatest geological national parks in t...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Want to see classic volcano features in California? Check out Lava Beds National Monument...

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At least when the Republicans come to their senses and reopen the government. The park is closed right now. Lava Beds National Monument ...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Into the Great Unknown: "Disaster" in National Canyon and the Volcanoes of Grand Canyon

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Yeah, I was not feeling all that comfortable. It was day 13 on our journey into the Great Unknown, the Colorado River through the Grand C...
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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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