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Showing posts with label landslide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landslide. Show all posts
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Landslides and Slope Mitigation in California's Great Valley...Wait...What?

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  I used to talk to my students about the geological hazards that we face as inhabitants of California's Great Valley (or Central Valley...
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Monday, March 14, 2022

The Merced River of California: A Place for Wildflowers and Landslides (and Yosemite Valley)

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The Merced River is one of California's extraordinary waterways. First and foremost, it is the river that carved Yosemite Valley, which ...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Out in America's Never Never: Barriers and the Thin Line of Civilization

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Photo by Mrs. Geotripper In math, getting from Point A to Point B is hardly a problem. It's a straight line most of the time, or an...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Geologic Change Along the Big Sur Coastline: Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park

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Gee, I bet no one has ever thought to take a picture here before... Okay, maybe a few people have chosen to take pictures of the scene a...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Accretionary Wedge #10: Geology and Art

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I almost missed the month's version of the Accretionary Wedge , hosted by John at Geological Musings in the Taconic Mountains ! I am le...
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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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