(Where possible, click on the field trip titles to be taken to another page of field trip photos)

 

Geology of Brushy Peak (and Vasco Caves)

Field Trip

Field Trip Leader:  Ron Crane, Consultant

March 1999

 

 

Sierra Buttes and Sixteen-to-One Mine, (Allegheny, CA)
Field Trip Leaders:  Woody Brooks (California State University, Hayward) and Ray Wittkopp (Principal Geologist, Sixteen-to-One Mine)

June 2002

 

 

San Francisco Bay - Delta Hydraulic Model Field Trip

Field Trip Leader:  Robert Stevenson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

January 2003

 

 


Northbrae Rhyolite Field Trip (Berkeley Hills)

Field Trip Leader:  Lin Murphy, California State University, Hayward

February 2003

 

 

Franciscan Metasedimentary Section at Pacheco Pass Field Trip

Field Trip Leader:  Dr. Gary Ernst, Stanford University

April 2003

 

 

Diablo Antiform - Diablo Range Intersection Field Trip

Field Trip Leader:  Ron Crane, Consultant

May 2003

 

 

Geology of the Right Stepover Region, Rogers Creek and Maacama Faults

Field Trip Leaders:  Bob McLaughlin (USGS), Dave Wagner (CGS),

and Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki (USGS)

June 2003

 

 

Geology of the Clear Lake Volcanic Field

Field Trip Leader:  Dr. Rolfe Erickson, Sonoma State University

August 2003

 

 

Geology of the Pt. Reyes Area Field Trip

Field Trip Leaders:  Tom MacKinnon (Consultant) and Rusty Gilbert (ChevronTexaco)

September 2003

 

 

National Earth Science Day

Black Diamond Mine, Educator's Day

Field Trip Leader Dr. Ray Sullivan, Emeritus San Francisco State University

October 2003

 

 

Miocene Volcanic Rocks at Burdell Mountain and Implications for Slip

along the East Bay Fault System Field Trip

Field Trip Leader:  Rick Ford, San Francisco State University

November 2003

 

 

Geology of the South Flank of Mount Diablo

Field Trip Leader:  Ron Crane, Consultant

May 2004

 

 

 

Photos Coming

 

Geology and Groundwater Resources of the Merced Formation

in the Westside Basin of the Coastal San Mateo and San Francisco Counties

Field Trip Leaders:  Ed Clifton, Ralph Hunter (Retired USGS), and Gregg Bartow (Public Utilities Commission)

July 2004

 

 

Geology of the Tiburon Peninsula, Marin County, California

Field Trip Leader: David A. Bero, R.G., P.G.

September 2004

 

 

 

The Winemaker's Dance: Exploring Terroir in the Napa Valley, California

 Field Trip Leader: David G. Howell, U.S. Geological Survey

October 2004

 

 

 

Colorful Geology of the Fremont Area

Dr. Joyce Blueford and D. Paul Belasky

March 2005

 

Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, Berkeley Hills, California

Dr. Stephen Edwards, Director, Tilden Regional Botanic Garden

May 2005

 

 

 

Blueschists and Breweries (“BrewschistsII")

Dr. John Wakabayashi, California State University, Fresno

June 2005

 

 

 

Panoche Hills Paleocene Cold Seeps

Mel Erskine, Consultant

October 2005

 

 

 

 

Coastal Cliffs-Landslides and Urban Developments

Dr. Monty Hampton, Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey

November 2005

(See Recent Seafloor Mapping Work - April 2007;

additional information available at: www.mbnms-simon.org/mavericks)

 

 

 

    

 

 

March 19, 2006

A 1906 Centennial Commemoration Field Trip

A Walk Along The Old Bay Margin in Downtown San Francisco - Tracing The Events of The 1906 Earthquake and Fire

Dr. Ray Sullivan, San Francisco State University, Emeritus

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday March 29, 2006

(Special Dinner Meeting Event)

A 1906 Centennial Commemoration Event

The 1906 Earthquake – Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten, and Looking Forward

Dr. Mary Lou Zoback, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park

 

 

 

 

Rose & Prospect 1987                                                                                   Rose & Prospect 2003

April 15, 2006

A 1906 Centennial Commemoration Field Trip

Tracing the Hayward Fault - A Potential Disaster Area

Dr. Joyce Blueford, Math Science Nucleus, Fremont

Dr. Mitchell Craig, California State University East Bay, Hayward

 

 

 

 

 

May 20 - 21, 2006

A 1906 Centennial Commemoration Field Trip

Point Lobos to Point Reyes: Evidence of ~180 km Offset of the San Gregorio & Northern San Andreas Faults Field Trip

Kathleen Burnham, Consultant

 

Coming Sooner

September 16, 2006

Field Geological Mapping Using Modern Technology

Dr. George Brimhall, U.C. Berkeley

 

 

 

April 21, 2007

The Sutter Buttes: Field Trip to the World’s Smallest Mountain Range

Dr. Brian Hausback, Cal State University, Sacramento, and

Martin Steinpress, Brown and Caldwell, Walnut Creek, Organizer

 

 

 

May 12, 2007

Devils Slide

Grant Wilcox, Senior Engineering Geologist, Cal-Trans

 

 

 

July 7 & 8, 2007

Crustal Deformation of the Eastern Sierra Frontal Fault

Dylan Rood, LLNL and UC Santa Barbara

 

 

 

August 25, 2007

Geophysical Investigation of the Green Valley Fault

Dr. James Lienkaemper, US Geological Survey and

Dr. Mitchell Craig, Cal State University East Bay

 

 

 

 

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