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Showing posts with label glaciers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glaciers. Show all posts
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Travels in Cascadia: Threading the Needle on Hurricane Ridge

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Leading a field studies trip is a stress-filled enterprise. There are the big things to worry about: auto accidents, injuries, conflicts w...
Monday, July 4, 2016

The Hawai'i That Was: Mauna O Wakea, the Opening to the Heavens, and the Realm of Ice

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It's hard for me as a person of European descent to imagine what the first Polynesians to arrive at the islands thought of Hawaii'...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Controversial Stone People, Fire and Ice, and an Olympic Legacy

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A stone person stands on an outcrop up in Callaghan Creek a few kilometers west of Whistler in British Columbia. It has been called an inu...
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Sunday, December 1, 2013

The Looming Volcanic Giant of Northern California: Mt. Shasta

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So California is all about earthquakes, right? Oklahoma has tornadoes, Florida has hurricanes, Minnesota has blizzards,and California has ...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

A Convergence of Wonders, Day 7: Of Time and Pressure in Glacier National Park

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There is a movie quote that I've always appreciated, from a movie with a several surprising references to geology, The Shawshank Redempt...
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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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