RECENT FIELD TRIPS
Field trip courses are an integral part of the PCC geology program.The following is a sampling of field trip destinations and topics emphasized for the last few years:
- Northern Colorado Plateau (Mesozoic-Cenozoic stratigraphy)
- Central Rockies (Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho)
- Santa Cruz Island (evolution of California coastal geology)
- Owens Valley (volcanic and glacial geomorphology)
- Klamath Mountains (plate boundary study)
- Northern Transverse Ranges (from subduction to transform boundary)
- Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River by backpack (Sierra Nevada Batholith)
- Rainbow Basin (introduction to mapping)
- White-Inyo Mountains (introduction to mapping)
- Southern Orange County and San Diego (coastal oceanography)
- San Andreas Fault from Palmdale to Wrightwood (overview of fault history)
- Palos Verdes Peninsula (Cenozoic evolution and beach processes)
- San Gabriel Mountains (an overview of the history of the range)
- Geology of the Pasadena area (geologic features in an urban setting)
- Death Valley (basin and range structure and stratigraphy)
- Costa Rica (volcanoes, rainforests and active plate margins)
- Baja California (biology and geology)
- Project Pele (study of geology and ecology of Hawaiian Islands)
- Mojave Desert (stratigraphy and volcanic features of the region)
- Mt. Wilson Observatory (stargazing overnight)
- Carrizo Plain (study of the San Andreas and related geomorphology)
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