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Living Landscapes: Point Arena’s Sedimentary Complex, Tectonic Geomorphology, and Biogeographic Setting Geography The Point Arena Terrane is a tectonic unit of geologic formations and sedimentary landforms west of the San Andreas Fault on the northern California coast, and is traveling northwestward …

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07.10.2025 04:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

SFGATE: A Mendocino Coast town fights to save its only path to the coast - MendoFever – Mendocino County News The Albion Headlands aren’t just a local fight — they’re part of a larger question: Who gets to experience the beauty of this state, and who gets to own it?

Who gets to “own” the coast?

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16.07.2025 23:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

California’s Coastal Prairies California’s coastal prairies form a fragile and patchy network of long-lived, low profile, species-rich herbaceous ecosystems unique to the climate, geology and geography of California’s coastal r…

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03.07.2025 19:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

California’s Coastal Prairies View on our website for intended layout California’s coastal prairies form a fragile and patchy network of long-lived, low profile, species-rich herbaceous ecosystems unique to the climate, geology and geography of California’s coastal regions. A steadfast and dominant biological component of the Pleistocene, coastal prairies harbor keystone perennial grass species, along with a multitude of annual and perennial forbs and graminoids.

California’s Coastal Prairies

View on our website for intended layout California’s coastal prairies form a fragile and patchy network of long-lived, low profile, species-rich herbaceous ecosystems unique to the climate, geology and geography of California’s coastal regions. A steadfast and…

03.07.2025 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Earthquake Country: The Cordelia and Green Valley Faults Situated at the southeastern edge of the Northern Coast Range, where subduction complex abuts the Great Valley Sequence, two outlying strands of the broad San Andreas fracture zone cut a striking a…

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01.07.2025 23:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Earthquake Country: The Cordelia and Green Valley Faults Situated at the southeastern edge of the Northern Coast Range, where subduction complex abuts the Great Valley Sequence, two outlying strands of the broad San Andreas fracture zone cut a striking and majestic tectonic landscape. The picture perfect Cordelia fault, and its more significant fractious neighbor, the Green Valley fault, sculpt plunging walls and scarps, paradisaical valleys, and ebullient, tumbling rocky hillscapes, through the igneous reaches of remote eastern Napa and western Solano Counties.

Earthquake Country: The Cordelia and Green Valley Faults

Situated at the southeastern edge of the Northern Coast Range, where subduction complex abuts the Great Valley Sequence, two outlying strands of the broad San Andreas fracture zone cut a striking and majestic tectonic landscape. The picture…

01.07.2025 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On the Eve of the Great Earthquake images, courtesy of CA Department of Conservation View this post on our website, here Every April 18th I ponder the fateful events my great-great, and great grandparents endured that very early morning, and for months to follow. With toddler in tow, and possibly pregnant, my great grandparents fled their South of Market flat to cross the Bay to join family in Larkspur, Marin County in the north.

On the Eve of the Great Earthquake

images, courtesy of CA Department of Conservation View this post on our website, here Every April 18th I ponder the fateful events my great-great, and great grandparents endured that very early morning, and for months to follow. With toddler in tow, and possibly…

18.04.2025 04:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Cal Geographic Active Tectonics and Landforms of the San Andreas Fault Complex- Southern Point Reyes Peninsula.

New video today from the bluffs above the San Andreas Fault Rift Valley at the mouth of the Bolinas Lagoon and Stinson Beach: Active Tectonics of the Southern Point Reyes Peninsula and beyond
#Tectonics #SanAndreasFault #Geology #California #Geography #Geomorphology
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29.03.2025 06:34 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Fossil Friday 🌿☠️
~40,000,000 year old trace fossils of tree casts and marine invertebrates at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, San Diego, in Eocene-aged Torrey Sandstone and Del Mar Formation
#Geology #geography #California #fossils #tectonics #sedimentary #marineterrace #paleontology

28.03.2025 16:05 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Cal Geographic Cliff Face Fossils and Tectonic Uplift on the California Coast @CalGeographic

Fossil Friday 🌿☠️
Here’s a video of our visit this week to a trace fossil Pholad borehole site on the north coast
#Tectonics #Geography #California #Geology #Fossils #SanAndreasFault #MarineTerrace #CalGeographic #Pleistocene #Paleontology
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28.03.2025 15:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

collection of 8 frog amulets from the Met: NK = New Kingdom LP = Late Period D = Dynasty Top row: NK, D18, c. 1550–1295 BCE, bronze or copper alloy (might be a weight), 1.8x3.4x2.6cm https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544103 LP, D26–30, 664–332 BCE, lapis lazuli, 2.5x2.1x2.7cm https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548433 LP, D26–29, 664–380 BCE, chlorite, 1.9x3.5cm https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544104 LP, D26–29, 664–380 BCE, faience, 1.7x2.2cm https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544105 Bottom row: NK, Ramesside, D 19, c. 1295–1185 BCE, porphyry, 1.2cm https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544106 NK, D18–20, c. 1550–1070 BCE, faience, 1.1x1.5x1.1cm https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544107 NK, Ramesside, D19–20, c. 1295–1070 BCE, serpentinite, 0.9x1.2cm https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544108 LP, D26–29, 664–380 BCE, faience, 0.7x1.1x0.8cm https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544109

#WorldFrogDay 🐸:
In #AncientEgypt, #frog spawns were timed with the annual flooding of the Nile, making them fitting animal avatars of Heqet, a goddess of fertility, birth & rebirth.

Collection of 8 frog amulets from New Kingdom to Late Period, c.1550-332 BCE, at the Met:
(see ALT for info on each)

21.03.2025 00:35 — 👍 55 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0

YouTube video by Cal Geographic Diving for Hidden Creeping Wild Ginger on the California Coast - @CalGeographic

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23.03.2025 00:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cal Geographic Sharing the Geography of California's Living Landscapes

Had a beautiful field day between storms on the north coast looking at tectonic landforms and signs of the Pacific Star Fault.. here are a few new videos, and more 🌏🌿🌊
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#Tectonics #California #Geology #geography #geomorphology #SanAndreasFault #MarineTerrace

22.03.2025 16:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seahorses, or Swordfern?

#PolystichumMunitum #californianativeplants #nativeplants #california #botany #geography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #iNat #CalGeographic #nativegardening #habitat #CalFlora

19.03.2025 23:49 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

DOGE set to close California NOAA offices that conduct ocean, fishery research Three NOAA offices in California are slated for closure as part of the Trump administration’s plans to terminate federal office leases nationwide.

In the next step of Trump & Musk’s war on science, DOGE is gutting NOAA’s presence in California, shutting down offices that focus on fisheries & habitat restoration.

They’re also going after the National Weather Service.

They’re determined to end American scientific leadership.

17.03.2025 13:56 — 👍 38 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1