Markes E. Johnson - Baja Californias Coastal Landscapes Revealed: Excursions in Geologic Time and Climate Change

Other Books by Markes E. Johnson

Discovering the Geology of Baja California: Six Hikes on the Southern Gulf Coast(2002)

Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California: Exploring Landscapes and Geology on Gulf Shores and Islands(2014)

Co-editor with Jorge Ledesma-Vzquez

Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California(2009)

Available from the University of Arizona Press

Gulf of California Coastal Ecology: Insights from the Present and Patterns from the Past

Available from Sunbelt Publications

Markes E. Johnson

The University of Arizona Press

www.uapress.arizona.edu

We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to twenty-two federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the Oodham and the Yaqui. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indigenous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service.

2021 by The Arizona Board of Regents

All rights reserved. Published 2021

ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4252-9 (paperback)

Cover design by Leigh McDonald

Cover image by Markes E. Johnson

Unless otherwise noted, all photos are by the author.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Johnson, Markes E., author.

Title: Baja Californias coastal landscapes revealed : excursions in geologic time and climate change / Markes E. Johnson.

Description: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021012043 | ISBN 9780816542529 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: GeologyMexicoBaja California (Peninsula)Guidebooks. | Climatic changesMexicoBaja California (Peninsula)Guidebooks. | Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)Guidebooks. | LCGFT: Guidebooks.

Classification: LCC QE203.B34 J637 2021 | DDC 557.2/2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021012043

Printed in the United States of America

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

For science teachers, everywhere and on all levels, but especially in memory of
Clifford O. Johnson (19101991), consummate high school biology teacher, summer sailor with the Naval Reserve
following wartime service in the U.S. Navy, and patient father.

Having taught a range of introductory and advanced geology courses through an active career at a leading liberal-arts college, I am proud of those former students who became teachers plying the same trade at various levels in secondary schools, colleges, and major universities. Most of my students, however, took up careers with little or no connection to the earth sciences. I always began my first lecture on historical geology with a message of inclusivity. Anyone can learn how to read the rocks. I promised that once a fluency in rock reading was mastered, students could count on a life skill allowing them to better appreciate their physical surroundings, wherever they might choose to live or travel in future years. When a very few complained about having to memorize the vocabulary relevant to rock reading, I reminded them how foolish it might sound to bemoan the workload in a Spanish or German course that required a mastery of words as the fundamental building blocks for sentences in those languages. I argued that you cant study the grammar of a language without taking the time to learn the words enfolded within that grammar.