Big Sur Coast and San Andreas Fault Field Course May 24 – 27, 2007

Big Sur Coast and San Andreas Fault Field CourseMay 24 – 27, 2007

Salmon Creek Falls, Big Sur Coast

Cave Draperies, near Salmon Creek Falls

Sand Dollar Beach, Big Sur Coast

More Sand Dollar Beach

Franciscan with greywacke and serpentinite

McWay Falls

Redwoods at Pffeifer Big Sur State Park

Pffeifer Big Sur State Park

Point Lobos State Reserve

Monterey cypress, Point Lobos

Surf deer, Point Lobos

Turbidite deposits, Point Lobos

5 separate turbidity currents with bouma A and B layers showing in bottom 4, Point Lobos

Anticline and syncline, Arroyo Seco

Strongly dipping Monterey Formation, Arroyo Seco

Highly deformed Monterey, Arroyo Seco

Arroyo Seco River terraces

Faulted Monterey Formation, Arroyo Seco River Valley

At camp, Arroyo Seco

Arroyo Seco River

Arroyo Seco River Gorge

Pinnacles National Monument

Rhyolitic breccia, Pinnacles

Balconies Caves, Pinnacles

Balconies Caves, Pinnacles

Thrust fault in serpentine, Hwy.198 between King City and Coalinga

On the way to Coalinga Mineral Springs

Early morning at Coalinga Mineral Springs C G

Normal faulting near Coalinga

Parkfield, California

Volcanic neck in Franciscan, Parkfield Grade

Parkfield bridge with offset pillars mostly due to fault creep

Wallace Creek stream offset, Carrizo Plain

Field course students at Soda Lake, Carrizo Plain