Eastern Sierra Nevada Geology Field Trip

This is only a trailer. Please go to http://mysite.verizon.net/jfuhring to see the entire show in high resolution and no commercials. The presentation is too long to present on YouTube . Please leave me some feedback if transferring to my webpage doesn't work for you. The entire program is a narrated video slide show in high resolution you can watch on my website. It is the story of a geology Field Trip hosted by Allan Hancock College along the eastern margin of the Sierra Nevada Mountains mostly along highway 395. We traveled from the central coast of California, across the southern end of the Sierras, the northwestern tip of the Mojave Desert and on up the Owens Valley parallel to and on the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains up to Mono Lake with the Panamint and Death Valley basins to the east. While on this trip we observed many examples of geologic processes including: 1) The San Andres Fault and fault zone landforms. 2) The southern end of the Sierra Nevada batholith and the forearc basin now forming the San Joaquin Valley. 3) The Miocene Ricardo Formation at Red Rock State Park. 4) Cinder cones, rhyloitic flows, obsidian domes and ashfalls (e.g. the Bishop Tuff) from the Long Valley Caldera eruptions and subsequent volcanic activity in the region including very recent eruptions and eruptions projected to occur within decades of the present. 5) Chemical and physical weathering of granite as seen at the Alabama Hills. 6) Mono Lake and Owens Lake to see the the effects of diversion of water to Los Angeles by Mulholland's engineering projects and to view the Tufa Domes of Mono lake. 7) Pleistocene pluvial and alpine glaciation landforms. 8) Roof pendants of metamorphosed Paleozoic passive margin sediments and visited a carbonate region that had been mineralized. 9) The "internment" camp at Manzanar. And so many, many other features besides. Along Highway 395 from the town of Mojave to Mono Lake there are a huge number of the most interesting geological features. These features may be visited and observed from your car with plenty of opportunity to get out and hike if you want to. There are many camping sites that cost little or nothing to stay at in addition to commercial hotels and motels. You could travel in this region for a month or more (with side trips to Death Valley and other places) and still not see everything. I hope this slide show encourages you to see this region for yourself. Hope you enjoy the slide show.