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Mendocino County’s Living Landscapes: from our column in the Mendocino Voice As a physical geographer I perpetually strive to know the landscape deeply. From the rapidly uplifting marine terraces, vast dune sheets, and offshore landforms that comprise Mendocino’s unmistakable coastline; to the oak-studded, wildflower-strewn tectonic valleys of Laytonville, Hopland, Covelo, Boonville, Comptche, and Branscomb; to the thousands of savannahs, wetlands, riparian corridors, coastal prairies, scrublands, riverine systems, pygmy forests and evergreen forests in between, the dynamic physical geography of Mendocino never fails to amaze and inspire.

Mendocino County’s Living Landscapes: from our column in the Mendocino Voice

As a physical geographer I perpetually strive to know the landscape deeply. From the rapidly uplifting marine terraces, vast dune sheets, and offshore landforms that comprise Mendocino’s unmistakable coastline; to the…

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The Cal Geographic Report Podcast: California’s Vernal Pools and Seasonal Wetlands Listen/Read On Cal Geographic Linked Here Welcome to the Cal Geographic Report – We look forward to sharing news and updates of the biogeography and geomorphology of California’s living landscapes. This almost vernal equinox podcast episode is totally dedicated to California’s seasonal freshwater wetlands and vernal pools. We will review several of California’s regional vernal pool complexes and preserves across the state, and highlight those with public access and upcoming spring vernal pool tours.

The Cal Geographic Report Podcast: California’s Vernal Pools and Seasonal Wetlands

Listen/Read On Cal Geographic Linked Here Welcome to the Cal Geographic Report – We look forward to sharing news and updates of the biogeography and geomorphology of California’s living landscapes. This almost…

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Living Landscapes: The Western Transverse Ranges Tectonic Geomorphology Southern California’s Transverse Ranges are composed of a series of geologic units of divergent age and origin. Together they are captured and transported to the northwest in an east-west trending rotation by the oblique grind, pull, and squeeze of the fractured and tempestuous boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates. The Transverse Ranges embody California’s quintessentially convoluted geologic environment.

Living Landscapes: The Western Transverse Ranges

Tectonic Geomorphology Southern California’s Transverse Ranges are composed of a series of geologic units of divergent age and origin. Together they are captured and transported to the northwest in an east-west trending rotation by the oblique…

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Earthquake Country, Geomorphography, and our Latest Podcast Episodes Earthquake Country ~ The Northern San Andreas Rift Valley The northern-most San Andreas rift valley at Alder Creek in coastal Mendocino County is a highly fractured tectonic zone, featuring at least two main stems of the San Andreas Fault itself, and riddled with multiple minor transform and thrust faults, both on-land and offshore... Read More Geomorphography ~ Seismite Seismite: Sedimentary layers (lithified strata) deformed during the seismic shaking of paleo earthquakes, and displaying distinct convoluted and disrupted bedding with geomorphic features such as pillows, flow rolls, dikes and folds...

Earthquake Country, Geomorphography, and our Latest Podcast Episodes

Earthquake Country ~ The Northern San Andreas Rift Valley The northern-most San Andreas rift valley at Alder Creek in coastal Mendocino County is a highly fractured tectonic zone, featuring at least two main stems of the San…

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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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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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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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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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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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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…

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

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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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

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

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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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)

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

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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

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Seahorses, or Swordfern?

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

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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.

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