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      • The Upper Reaches of the Sierra Nevada Auriferous Gold Channels
      • Geology of the Ione Formation in the Ione Area
      • A Historical Review Of The Age Assignments Applied To The Chalk Bluff Fossil Plant Assemblage, Central Sierra Nevada
      • Gold Bearing Gravels of the Ancestral Yuba River, Sierra Nevada
      • Re-evaluation of the origin of kaolinite in the Ione Formation
      • Geology and Ceramic Properties of the Ione Formation, Buena Vista Area
      • A Middle Eocene Flora From The Central Sierra Nevada
      • Origin of gold in placer deposits of the Sierra Nevada Foothills, California
      • The Ione Formation of California
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New petrified log display at the UC Davis Geoscience Building

Posted on March 29, 2014 by James Wood

Log in place

Log from the auriferous gravels in the Sierra Nevada foothills finally makes it.  What a job!  Don’t miss the video and specimen description.

 

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