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On a geology field trip in April 1983 led by Dr. Myron G. Best and myself I dug out these old pictures. Some of the old 35 mm slides are still pretty nice.

[Image]  Green hills of the Coast Range looking out over the San Jose valley.

[Image]  Tiburon Peninsula on a rainy April day with the occasional blueschist or greywacke knocker poking up through the grass.

[Image] Early morning along the Merced River gorge outside of Yosemite.

[Image] Agmatite – a mass of rock thought to represent the collapsed roof of a magma chamber.

[Image]  Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite Valley in the morning light.

[Image] Another example of agamite with numerous inclusions of different types in the granite matrix. Located along the Merced River gorge near Yosemite National Park.

[Image] Landslide on road west of Yosemite. The spring of 1983 was one of the wettest the west had seen in over 100 years causing many landslides.

[Image] The beautiful U-shaped, glaciated Yosemite valley.

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[Image] Flow layering and folding in the rhyolite lava flows near Mono Lake, California near Mammoth, California.

[Image] Sedimentary dikes cutting across tuff layers near Mono Lake.

[Image] More of the flow folded rhyolite lava. Just spectacular.