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Showing posts with label mesa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mesa. Show all posts
Monday, December 11, 2017

Every Victory is Fragile, Every Loss is Catastrophic: Bear's Ears National Monument and the Valley of the Gods

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Bear's Ears National Monument is a magical place. It is a place of mystery and vast vistas, a place of sacredness to many people. It ...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Out in America's Never Never: Valley of the Gods, where pareidolia runs rampant

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Pareidolia is a very human tendency to perceive faces and significant forms in unlikely places, like on oddly shaped potatoes and burnt to...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Abandoned Lands...A Journey Through the Colorado Plateau: A real Hole in the Wall

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Some places can only be described as a real hole in the wall...this one for instance, in the Mojave National Preserve in Southern California...
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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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