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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

It's "Where am I Wednesday"!

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A glacial valley with rock walls towering thousands of feet above. Waterfalls a thousand feet high. One of John Muir's favorite places....
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

St. Helens 30th Anniversary

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It's the 30 th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens , the most recent volcanic disaster in the lower 48 states. Aside from the...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Amid the Chaos, the Beauty of an Erupting Volcano

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Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo . I hadn't seen this until today (courtesy of Edie at...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

My Favorite Geology Foto: May's Accretionary Wedge

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I was never much of a photographer for most of (some would say "all of") my life. In those olden days when people used this stuff...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Moderate Earthquake in Puerto Rico

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A moderate earthquake has rocked Puerto Rico, with a magnitude of 5.7 (now 5.8 after USGS review) and depth of 110 kilometers. At that de...

Red Hills Redux

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In late March, I paid an early spring visit to a unique geologic locale in the Mother Lode of the Sierra Nevada, the Red Hills Area of Criti...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Friday's Fun Fotos: the Fluvial Forest Discussed

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I posted some pictures of a "fluvial forest" this morning (fluvial=river) asking for an explanation about how these trees came to...
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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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