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Showing posts with label forearc basin. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Damning Del Puerto Canyon, a Geological and Natural Treasure in our County

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I awoke this morning mildly astonished to see my own words making up the headline of a Modesto Bee article about a proposed dam in Del Puert...
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Sunday, May 26, 2019

What to do on a Saturday? Let's Go to the Middle of the Earth (via Del Puerto Canyon)!

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The strange and alien landscape in upper Del Puerto Canyon. California has some really strange landscapes. A state that has beaches, mou...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

A Look Back at Ten Years of Geotripping: Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World

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Driving through the most dangerous (kind of) plate boundary in the world is actually not very easy to do. Subduction zones, with the excepti...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Driving to the Center of the Earth in Del Puerto Canyon...Sideways

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Okay, not really to the center, but deeper than any drill or mine shaft ever went. Del Puerto Canyon in the California Coast Ranges provid...
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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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