FIELD TRIPS

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