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The Desert Speaks
Finding the Fault in California’s Desert
Season 18
Episode 4
Host David Yetman and University of Arizona Geoscientist Susan Beck head to Southern California to trace the San Andreas Fault and examine some of the tortured topography thrown up by the fault. Join them as they follow along the fault near the Salton Sea at 230 feet below sea level and then wind through Painted Canyon .
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In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain.
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We trek inland to examine a cross section of the Patagonia desert into the Andes.
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Venture across the spectacular and colorful Argentine Patagonia.
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We travel to central Chile to the vineyards that have made Chilean wines famous.
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Exploring the isolated ecosystem of Catalina Island.
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Travel along the coastline of Espiritu Santo Island with host David Yetman.
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The famed Sea of Cortez boasts the greatest marine diversity in the world.
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Continue the journey through the gorgeously diverse Patagonia landscape.
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Travel with host David Yetman through the Patagonia landscape.
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Trace the Rio San Miguel through Sonora, Mexico.
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Discvoer how adobe was used in the past and is still used today.
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Travel around Chihuahua, Mexico with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s Jesus Garcia