Instructor pointing out crystals in rock veins. Geology field trips give students
plenty of opportunities to collect rocks and minerals on field trips.
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Students observing wave patterns from a Palos Verdes cliff.
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Landslides are common in Southern California and are evidenced by scarps at the top
and hummocky (bumpy) landscape below.
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Geology students having a picnic on rock layers.
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Oceanography class on field trip to tide pools along Palos Verdes.
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Oceanography Students discussing salinity and temperature changes in tide pools.
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Geology student discovers a rock so interesting that she will keep it.
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Pebble and boulder beach created by ocean waves concentrated on thsi Palos Verdes
headland.
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Looking for different types of cliff erotion. Hard rocks such as sandstone and basalt
create cliffs whereas shale erodes into slopes.
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View of a marine terrace in Palos Verdes, created by wave reosion and fault uplift
of rock.
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Hard rock, such as basalt, resists wave erosion creating a headland and sea stacks.
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Examining a fault detectable by the rocks on opposite sides of the fault.
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Great views and spectacular rocks can be seen on Geology field trips.
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Geology 30A student in front of Artists Pallette, Death Valley. The bight colorsare
volcanic ash layers that are weathered by hot water.
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Having a picnic on top of cincer cone volcano in Death Valley. This volcano is split
in two by a fault.
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Badwater, the deepest point in North America, can be visited on the Geology 30A Death
Valley trip in the Fall semester.
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Seeing Ubehebe volcani in Death Valley at sunset.
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Students at an ancient fosilized waterfall.
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Students at impressive Red Rocks formation.
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Geology class gets a group photo taken against a spectacular wall of limestone breccia
formed near a fault in Titus Canyon in Death Valley.
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Great overlook of faults, horst (right), and graben (left). What a view of nature's
beauty.
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Geology students letting loose in Mozaic Canyon by sliding down a smooth marble dry
waterfall. Who needs water?!
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Geology student really getting down to earth by licking a block of salt on a desert
playa.
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Beautiful examples of spheroidal weathering, where the granite rock is eroded into
round spheres by uneven weathering of the rock along joints. This is a distinctive
feature of granite that is so common in California.
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Students walking along the edge of a volcano, which is known by its Indian name,
Ubehebe.
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Students observing wave patterns from a Palos Verdes Cliff.
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Oceanography class on field trip to tide pools on the coast.
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Oceanography Students discussing salinity and temperature changes in tide pools.
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Pebble and boulder beach created by ocean waves concentrated on this Palos Verdes
headland.
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Hard rock resists wave erosion creating a headland and sea stacks.
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View of a marine terrace in Palos Verdes, created by wave erosion and fault uplift
of rock.
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Oceanography students enjoying a trip to the beach to examine the different beach
processes such as longshore drift and berm creation.
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Students sampling the seawater in Nansen bottles for later analysis on board the
reasearch vessel.
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Students enjoying the oceanographic cruise aboard the RV Vantuna available to all
oceanography students.
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Retrieving rock samples from the seafloor by using a rock dredge that is dragged
behing the ship.
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California Geography field trip to Big Sur Coast.
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Carmel Mission.
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Kelp Forest, Monterrey Bay Aquarium.
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Pinnacles National Monument.
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Ebele Winery, Paso Robles.
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