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text[number++] = "That there have been <a href=\"Fac_Pages/gaines_page.htm\">five major mass extinctions</a> in the history of life (so far)?"
text[number++] = "The absence of large earthquakes along the central section of the San Andreas fault may be due to the presence of <a href=\"research/Faculty/Reinen/Reinen.htm\">serpentine</a> (California’s state rock)?"
text[number++] = "Pomona geology students have recently conducted research in several exotic locales including <a href=\"research/Students/Thesis/theses.htm\">Greece, Iceland, Mongolia, and Cozumel</a>?"
text[number++] = "Students and faculty in the Geology Department often study the geology of <a href=\"research/Faculty/Grosfils/Grosfils.html\">Venus and Mars</a> together?"
text[number++] = "The <a href=\"Fac_Pages/reinen_page.htm\">current Chair</a> of the Geology Department loves to make pottery?"
text[number++] = "There's actually a use for <a href=\"research/Faculty/Grosfils/Venus/Ganiki_planitia/index.html\">red-blue stereo glasses</a> besides making you look silly?"
text[number++] = "One of the Geology faculty members is a three-time winner of Pomona's <a href=\"Fac_Pages/hazlett_page.htm\">Wig Award for Distinguished Teaching</a>, while two have won the distinguished Biggs Award for Excellence in Earth Science Teaching Award from the Geological Society of America, one in <a href=\"Fac_Pages/grosfils_page.htm\">2001</a> and one in <a href=\"Fac_Pages/reinen_page.htm\">2003</a>?"
text[number++] = "In the past four years geology faculty and students have <a href=\"research/student.html\">collaborated on research</a> together at locations in at least 16 different states, 8 different countries, and 3 planets?"
text[number++] = "Students and faculty sometimes have a good reason to beat on the ground with <a href=\"Research/Faculty/Grosfils/Earth/Canyonlands/index.html\">sledgehammers</a>?"
text[number++] = "You can learn a lot about the Earth by analyzing <a href=\"classes/current/geo110/index.html\">data collected by satellites?</a>"
text[number++] = "The Geology Department recently instituted a <a href=\"FieldTrips/Pages/Department_FT/DFT_SP06s/index_clean.htm\">kickoff field trip </a> at the beginning of each semster.  Last Springs trip spent the weekend in Anza Borrego State Park."
text[number++] = "The <a href=\"FieldTrips/Pages/Department_FT/DFT_SP06/index_clean.htm\">fourth annual department field trip </a>recently returned from the Grand Staircase of the Esclante in Southern Utah."
text[number++] = "All the departmental <a href=\"facstaff.html\">faculty</a> live within a few miles of campus?"
text[number++] = "Faculty and students are working together to <a href=\"research/faculty/Grosfils/Venus/Ganiki_planitia/index.html\">map an area on Venus</a> that is roughly one-third the size of the United States?"
text[number++] = "<a href=\"field_trips/recent.html\">Field trips scattered across our introductory courses</a> help students explore different types of local geology, including a small volcano in the Mojave Desert, coastal erosion and landsliding near a nuclear power plant, stream processes in San Antonio Canyon just north of campus, and of course the San Andreas Fault!"
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