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Showing posts with label speleothems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speleothems. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

The Sequoia Underground: An Exploration of Crystal Cave

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It's true that Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park can hardly be described as a wild cave. Since its discovery in 1918 and its devel...
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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Where are the Ten Most Incredible Places You've Ever Stood? My Number 4: What is it like to be the first person ever to see a cavern?

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Can you imagine flashing a light in a dark corner of a cavern, knowing that you are the first human being ever to lay eyes on the formatio...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Inside the Biggest Cavern Opening in California: Moaning Caverns in the Sierra Nevada Foothills

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Yes, I had another field trip today! It was less academic then some, as it was a Geology Club tour, but learning was part of the experienc...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

It's Just a Damned Rock...or Stalactite...or Wolf...or National Park. Where does it stop?

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The subject of today's post grew out of several news items from the past few weeks, and a walk underground that I took yesterday. I...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Leaving the Abandoned Lands for Greener Pastures: Wrapping up a Tour of the Colorado Plateau

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We'd been on the road for a while, back in June of 2012. Our tour of the Abandoned Lands had taken us on a grand loop that included G...
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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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