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Where are the Ten Most Incredible Places You've Ever Stood? My Number 4: What...

Can you imagine flashing a light in a dark corner of a cavern, knowing that you are the first human being ever to lay eyes on the formations? I haven't had that privilege in my life, but I have found...

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Where are the Ten Most Incredible Places You've Ever Stood? My Number 3:...

The Panamint Mountains and Telescope Peak, the highest part of Death Valley National Park, as seen from Dante's View..Death Valley is the hottest place on planet Earth.  Furnace Creek recorded a...

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Brad Paisley Lets Out His Inner Rock...Again

I've always had a soft part in my heart for country singers who sing hard rock songs (although soft rock is okay too). Click on the link above or check out...

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See the Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Big Screen (and get a treasure of your...

This is a note of local interest to our readers in the Modesto region... The Geology and Anthropology Clubs at Modesto Junior College invite you to an evening of thrills, chills, and death-defying...

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Where are the Ten Most Incredible Places You've Ever Stood? My Number 2: The...

A clearing storm in Carbon Canyon, a tributary to the Grand CanyonOf course, the Grand Canyon was going to appear on a list like this. It is one of the great spectacles of geology on planet Earth, and...

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Where are the Ten Most Incredible Places You've Ever Stood? My Number 1:...

There's an empty quarter within the bounds of the lower 48 states. It's a vast area, a swath of land across southern Utah and northern Arizona where towns are few, and the vistas are wide. It's bounded...

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Checking Out Mount Diablo's Biologic Overburden

Mt. Diablo is one of California's most spectacular state parks. Rising 3,847 feet above the Bay Area, the mountain is one of the most prominent in the state. It served as the starting point for...

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Imagine in Your Mind a "Scientist"

This is a question I ask my students during the first week of every class I teach. There are consistent responses: "white lab coat", "pocket protector", "test tubes", "eyeglasses". Then I ask "What...

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Where are the Ten Most Incredible Places You've Ever Stood? The Runners Up

I've noticed that nearly every movie reviewer puts a list of the runners up at the end of their list of the top ten movies of the year. In that spirit, I'm putting up a set of pictures from the places...

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Through the Looking "Glass" and into the Rabbit Hole: A Tour of the Black...

Coal mining...Barren open pits, overburden stripped away, ruined rivers, flattened mountain tops. It doesn't have a very good reputation and probably doesn't deserve it. Yet even today it provides a...

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Taking in the View from the Bay Area's Devilish "Not a Volcano"

Mount Diablo looms over the Bay Area, rising 3,849 feet above the coastal plains. The two prominent peaks are miles from any other high mountains, and thus the mountain offers an incomparable view of...

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Up Close and Personal with a Western Tanager

Seasoned birders won't be surprised at the excitement a rank amateur like myself feels the first time he or she sees an interesting bird up close. Western Tanagers (Piranga ludoviciana) are relatively...

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The Other California: Highway 108 and Donnell Vista - like Yosemite, only...

Those of you who've followed my blog over the years may remember that I produced a blog series called "The Other California" which existed long before any Toyota commercials with a similar slogan. I...

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The Other California: Clark Fork of the Stanislaus, a quiet version of Yosemite

It's not really fair, of course. No place is like Yosemite, and I shouldn't compare Clark Fork to Yosemite. I doubt there is anywhere in the world that can compare to Yosemite Valley with the high...

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Spring colors from Clark Fork of the Stanislaus River (in the Other California)

Pride of the Mountain (Penstomen newberryi)Today's post is a brief collection of the spring wildflowers we saw while we explored Donnell Vista and Clark Fork of the Stanislaus River over Memorial Day...

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Headed for the Hinterlands: Basin and Range and the Colorado Plateau.

Hitting the road tomorrow, and much looking forward to getting away for a few days. It may seem like I do a lot of traveling, and I have been, but it's mostly been day trips. We're putting in a few...

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"Fly-over Country" Moniker Doesn't Do this Land Justice: Crossing the Basin...

The Basin and Range province is one of the largest geological provinces in North America, covering all of Nevada, parts of eastern California, half of Utah, and large parts of Arizona. It is also one...

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Revealing the Riddle of the Red Rocks

 It's pretty amazing the places that didn't get made into national parks. It's pretty amazing that tens of millions of people visit Las Vegas and never make it just a few miles west of the city limits...

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It's a Dam Big Reservoir, But There Are Some Dam Scary Things About It.

First off, I am so sorry for the dam puns. I'm a geologist, and we geologists are just no dam good at resisting stupid puns. It's something you'll just have to take for granite.In any case, this is a...

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Exploring the Depths of the Grand Canyon...By Car?

The Grand Canyon is one of the great spectacles of the Earth. Millions of people every year stand on the edge of the abyss and peer in, taking in the vivid colors and hidden depths. Tens of thousands...

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