Friday, December 31, 2010

The California Prairie: A final journey for 2010

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I started 2010 talking about California's prairies ( here and here ), and with a nice sunny afternoon (another few storms are bearing d...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

The Other California: Sharktooth Hill and a Fossil Collection in Need of a Good Home

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Besides the familiar La Brea Tar Pits (translation: "The Tar" Tar Pits), California is not widely known as a treasure trove of fos...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Scientists Don't Believe Anything, But I Believe I Liked This Book: The Planet in a Pebble

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I would make a rotten book reviewer. My problem is that unless I'm reading a cliff-hanger type mystery by a Douglas Preston-Lincoln Chi...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The San Timoteo Badlands: Where'd All That Mud Come From?

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A small postscript to our journey these holidays that took us across the southwest. We seemed to be chasing the intense, even if not totall...
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Monday, December 27, 2010

12 Months of Geotripper Blogging

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I love year-end lists! Chris and Ann at Highly Allochthonous have listed their first posts of each month, and I couldn't resist joining...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

The Last Christmas Gift: A Joshua Tree

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A last Christmas scene... Some of my family lives in the desert near Joshua Tree National Park. We hadn't been there in the past, and e...
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Friday, December 24, 2010

The Christmas Gift: Storm Passes in Grand Canyon

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Christmas gifts come in many different forms. The storm that engulfed the Grand Canyon the previous evening gave way to a new morning, and...
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