Category: Geology/earthquakes

June 30, 2021

Death Valley geology hiking/camping trip Dec 2021

Explore Death Valley with a group of hikers interested in examining the geology of the park. The trip is December 28, 2021 through January 1, 2022.

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May 13, 2021

Lava Beds & Tule Lake geology hiking/camping trip; July 2021

Lava Beds & Tule Lake: July 11-14 Continuing our July northeast California trips, we will spend four days exploring Lava Beds National Monument, plus the Tule Lake National Monument. Katie and I are leading another hiking/camping trip with our Meetup group. If you would like to attend, space is limited so be sure to RSVP on Meetup here. The trip...

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May 12, 2021

Mt. Lassen and Lava Beds geology hiking/camping trip; July 2021

Three-day geology focused hiking in the Mt. Lassen area in Northern California. Nights spent in a group campsite.

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April 15, 2020

Death Valley online tour: COVID-19 social distancing

Using Google Earth as the tour map, and combining my knowledge from the trips I have taken there with my photos and YouTube/Vimeo videos, I organized an online tour for of Death Valley April 15th, 2020. Below are images and videos from that tour (I hope to add a Google Earth link soon).

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July 7, 2015

Tentative geology road trip/hikes to Southwest, March 2016

Katie and Ada and I had a great trip through the Southwest earlier this summer, and we’re thinking of doing a similar trip with our SF Bay Area Geology and Natural Sciences Hiking Group. The trip would run nine days, from Saturday, March 26th (early departure) through Sunday, April 3rd (late return), 2016. Unfortunately, this trip requires a lot of...

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March 6, 2015

Faulting at Devils Slide

The opening of the tunnel around Devil’s Slide in San Mateo County allowed for the creation of a mile-long trek to look at some of California’s fascinating geology. In my last geology hike to the trail, I took a photo of the great sedimentary layers at the north end of the trail, then edited the photo to show how well...

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December 7, 2009

Hayward’s “D Street” fault creep, curb offset evidence erased

Sadly, improvements in city streets can wipe out geologic evidence. D Street has been a great field trip stop to see earthquake fault creep, and appears in many guidebooks and web sites. But in 1997, Hayward repaved the road, including the sidewalks (they all needed it). When they repaved it, they straightened all the curb lines, thereby erasing the evidence...

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