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Biogeography of California’s Old Growth Canopy Mat Ecosystems

photo, NPS Within the oldest, tallest, and most isolated individuals among California’s totemic and scarce stands of old growth Coast redwood forest (Sequoia sempervirens), a shrouded and complex i…

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December 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM

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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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October 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM

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Who gets to “own” the coast?

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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?

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July 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM

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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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July 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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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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July 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM

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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…

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.

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April 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM

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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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Active Tectonics and Landforms of the San Andreas Fault Complex- Southern Point Reyes Peninsula.

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March 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM

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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

March 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM

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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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Cliff Face Fossils and Tectonic Uplift on the California Coast @CalGeographic

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March 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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Art History Animalia

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#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)

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

March 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM

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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

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Sharing the Geography of California's Living Landscapes

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March 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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Seahorses, or Swordfern?

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

March 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM

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Senator Scott Wiener

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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.