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Saturday, January 21, 2023

A Short Primer on Mass Wasting, Courtesy of California's Atmospheric River Storms

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I live in California's Great Valley, known to some as the plain old "Central Valley", and most know it as a very flat place. A...
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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Dry Creek: Anatomy of a Flood (One of Many Across California Today)

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  After days of gloomy and wet weather, New Year's Day dawned bright and sunny, and we couldn't resist driving out into the Californ...
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Saturday, December 31, 2022

Year-end Look at the California Water Situation

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  It's the last day of 2022, and the third year of a stunning drought in California. It's been raining pretty much across the state ...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Believing in the Occult: The Occultation of Mars, anyway.

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How often do you get to see something new, something you have never before seen? I got to have that experience this evening. Some folks beli...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

Why did the Road Cross the San Andreas Fault? 20 Years of Geologic Change (a new Update)

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2002 I've been leading geology field studies trips to lots of places in the American West for 30 years and started to take digital p...
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Sunday, October 30, 2022

How It Was Today: Fall in Yosemite Valley

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How it ended... How it began... I woke up late this morning. Mrs. Geotripper was finishing breakfast and asked if I'd like "to go u...
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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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