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Showing posts with label coastal dunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coastal dunes. Show all posts
Monday, June 10, 2019

Every Place Has a Story: Prichard, Oregon's Smallest State Park

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I've been visiting Florence, Oregon for a number of years, and it is a beautiful place. The Siuslaw River reaches the sea near the tow...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

The Carpeted Dunes of Oregon's Central Coast: The Principle of Unintended Consequences

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So how about this plush carpeting on a sand dune? What? It doesn't look like a sand dune? Some people are such skeptics....let's f...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

The End of Fifty Miles of Sand: The Oregon Dunes

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Or maybe, more properly, the beginning of fifty miles of sand. It's generally moving south from this point. The west coast of North ...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Sand...Lots of Sand

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Wrapping up my mini-exploration of the coast of Oregon leads me to the plainest of all subjects: sand. Or maybe not the plainest. We use t...
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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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