Transcript UNLV Geology 471/671 Petroleum Geology Fieldtrip to the

UNLV Geology 471/671
Petroleum Geology Fieldtrip to
the San Joaquin Valley and
Central California Coast
Student participants:
Jesse Grady, Sam Hudson, Jonathan
Zybala
Faculty member: Andrew Hanson
T.A.: Liz Glowiak
Jonathan Zybala standing next to disturbed beds in the McKittrick
Brea (fossil tar pit) on the west side of the San Joaquin valley.
Sam and Jonathan sampling
oil at the Price Canyon oil
seep near Pismo Beach.
Rainbow touching down in the San Andreas fault valley west
of Maricopa
Slickensides (the white
surfaces) exposed
within the Monterey
Formation near San Ardo
(note hammer for scale).
Graduate student Sam Hudson examining the Santa Margarita Fm
(a shoreface unit) at the Coalinga anticline. Note sand dollar on the
face of the outcrop in front of Sam.
Sand dollar
Jonathan, Sam, and Jesse examining outcrops of blue sandstone in the
Etchegoin Fm exposed at Coalinga.
California poppies and lupines growing on the slopes of the southern
Sierra Nevada on the east side of the San Joaquin valley.