Saturday, December 5, 2009

The Other California: Geology and the other State Symbols, Part III

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I was walking alone a couple of years ago in Yosemite Valley, on a surprisingly lonely trail between the visitor center complex and Yosemit...
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Friday, December 4, 2009

The Other California: Geology and the other State Symbols II

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Giant Sequoia ( Sequoiadendron gigantea ) Coast Redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens ) at Muir Woods National Monument California is a landscape ...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009

The Other California: Geology and the other State Symbols, Part I

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The Sierra Nevada of California are enigmatic: a great deal of conflict has existed over the origin, uplift, and erosion of the range. Did t...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Other California: Geology and our State Symbols

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Gold was the obvious choice for the state mineral of California, but at the time, no other state had actually selected a state mineral, or...
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The Other California: Already off on a Tangent

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It occurred to me while looking over my postcard post on the "usual" places of California that a discussion of places in Californ...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Other California: Now this is a postcard for a Geologist!

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In the run-up to a series of blogs on some less-than-familiar parts of my home state of California, I used some postcards that are availab...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

The Other California: The things it is not

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I wrote a post a few days ago about the "Other California", describing a section of the prairies that surround California's C...
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