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Northern Convergence: Vancouver Island, the Plan That Was, Part II
Ah, the lost opportunities! I don't want to make it sound like we had a bad Northern Convergence trip; we actually had a great time taking our students through an exploration of the geology of...
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Northern Convergence: Vancouver Island, the Plan That Was, Part III
Road construction at Malahat Summit. Photo by Mrs. Geotripper.Continuing my brief series of things my students didn't see on Vancouver Island during our Northern Convergence tour of Canada, we reach a...
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Northern Convergence: Vancouver Island, the last of the plan that was...
Our tour of Vancouver Island in British Columbia continued. I've spent several posts (here, here, and here) describing places we saw when we scouted the island a few days before the arrival of our...
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Northern Convergence: The Day We Actually Had on Vancouver Island...and...
A plan is such a wonderful thing! With a plan, one can conduct field trips smoothly, with no delays, no missed stops, no problems. Oh, did I say plan? I meant to say "luck". I've been having fun with...
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Magnitude 6.0 Quake in Northern California - Largest Bay Area Quake in 25 Years
Source: http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Northern California woke up this morning to the largest Bay Area earthquake since the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake (magnitude 6.9). The magnitude 6.0 quake,...
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Seismogram of Napa 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake from Modesto
One of the nice things about the new Science Community Center at Modesto Junior College is that we have been given some wonderful tools for the teaching of science. We had a modest seismometer at the...
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Northern Convergence: Stories on Trees, the Totems of the Northwestern First...
During the flurry of planning for our Northern Convergence journey through Canada and the Pacific Northwest, I was barely keeping up with the geology, and any background information on the...
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One of Geology's Little Mysteries Solved: The Sliding Stones of Racetrack...
Bonnie Claire Playa in NevadaThere are side shows that happen in the sciences. There are the big mysteries of the cosmos and earth history that take many years and the work of dozens or hundreds of the...
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Just a Neat Moment in My Day...
I'm back at work this week teaching geology, and after an unexpectedly busy summer organizing trips, I needed the rest! Being back on campus also allowed me to reacquaint myself with the campus...
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Northern Convergence: The Sea to the Sky Highway in British Columbia (the Sky...
Porteau Cove Provincial ParkWe are continuing our "Northern Convergence" journey through Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Our last post saw us observing the geology in and around Vancouver Island and...
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A Sunday Mystery Photo...
Here's a little mystery to start off your Sunday morning web browsing. What's going on here? Clues: Trees and sage provide scale, and it's in British Columbia. No shame in wrong guesses!
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Northern Convergence: Moving Pictures of the Canadian Wilderness, from...
I PROMISE to reveal the origin of yesterday's mystery picture SOON! In the very next post, in fact, barring any major earthquakes in Northern California, or other major geologic distractions. It's just...
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Northern Convergence: The Mystery Photo Explained
Thanks for all of your conjectures about yesterday's mystery photo! The Earth is such a fascinating place, and there are so many different kinds of strange patterns that have different origins. Let's...
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Here We Go Again: Yellowstone is Going to KILL US ALL! Wait a minute...
I'm going to start with the conclusion (I've highlighted some parts using the bold font):Geological activity at Yellowstone provides no signs that a supereruption will occur in the near future. Indeed,...
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Register for the Fall Meeting of the National Association of Geoscience...
The 2003 meeting sponsored by CSU Sacramento: Exploring the Malakoff DiggingsThe fall meeting of the Far Western Section of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers is taking place on Oct...
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Northern Convergence: A Different Kind of Convergence More Than a Century Ago...
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not runWhen the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sunLong before the white man and long before the wheelWhen the green dark forest...
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In Case You Haven't Seen It: Shock-wave from Volcanic Blast at Papua New...
This has been making the rounds on Facebook and Google+, but just in case you missed it, have a look at the shock wave from an eruption at Papua New Guinea's Tavurvur (or Rabaul) volcano. The footage...
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Ongoing Exfoliation Event at Twain Harte Lake in the Sierra Nevada
There is an ongoing geological drama going on the Sierra Nevada that may be unique (to the extent of my knowledge, which is admittedly limited in this area). Exfoliation, a process long recognized as...
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Northern Convergence: Mt. Revelstoke, Where the Columbia Mountains Reach to...
Thanks for all the attention to the post on exfoliation in Twain Harte! 4,000 hits and counting, it's been my most read blogpost in five years (about 10 or 15 times normal traffic). Today we are...
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Northern Convergence: Finally Finding the Edge of North America at Yoho...
Looking upstream on the Kicking Horse River at Field, B.C.How strange geology is, and what wonderful journeys it provides for our imagination! So many geological processes are exceedingly slow, and yet...
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