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May 12, 2022
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Regular readers of this blog and people who otherwise know me should be quite familiar with my fandom for Maryland Terrapins athletics including its catchphrase “Fear the Turtle.” One aspect of my travels that’s both central and peripheral and that …
May 11, 2022
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Prologue. Before I start in earnest, let me brush aside the controversial hypothesis that the first humans arrived in California some 130,000 years ago. In 2017 a group of researchers looking at the remains of a mastodon and other material …
May 10, 2022
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Between the posts about my trips to the American and Canadian west, Montreal, and Atlanta, I think there are enough entries throughout this blog that have described the paleogeology and geological forces that shaped the North American continent to obviate …