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Monday, November 16, 2015

The Karst Topography...of California? A Look at California Caverns

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We took a field studies trip a few weeks ago, and it turned into a mini-series on the karst terrain of California, a landscape that f...

Intense November Weather in Central California...and Tornadoes?

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Credit: Jacquetta Wehking I tell my students on occasion that they live in a place that is relatively free of the most serious geological...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

2.0% of the Tuolumne River Story, Courtesy of the Tuolumne River Trust. And 8-foot-long Saber-toothed Salmon!

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Standing on the Dana Fork, close to the headwaters of the Tuolumne River in January of 2012 (when no snow had yet fallen) Rivers often ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

The Great Valley Museum at Modesto Junior College is Seeking a Director

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The Science Community Center at Modesto Junior College is a monument to the importance of science education, with state-of-the-art labs a...

The Karst Topography...of California? Into the Black Chasm

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California is not really known for her expanses of karst topography, the landscapes that develop where limestone or marble lies undergroun...
Monday, November 9, 2015

The Karst Topography...of California? California has Natural Bridges, and not Just in Santa Cruz

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I've been reviewing some of the stops on our recent field studies course through the karst country of California. This landscape is th...
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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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