Technical Tours
The following technical tours are being planned:
Technical Tour 1
Santa Cruz Geology
Date: Saturday, 22 June; 9:30 am - 6:30 pm
Cost: $110.00 Lunch included
(Limited to 25 persons)
View sandstone intrusions, paleostress indicators, hydrocarbon fronts, dike sill complexes, and carbonate cold seep structures, all along the beautiful Santa Cruz coastline. J. Casey Moore, Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, will lead the viewing of the outcrops.
Technical Tour 2
San Francisco Bay Geologic Engineering Tour with Richard Goodman
Date: Sunday, 23 June; 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost: $90.00 Lunch included
(Limited to 52 persons)
This technical tour will include selections from the following locations: Rock stability problems from historic quarry cuts into Telegraph Hill; Fort Point and the Golden Gate Bridge serpentinites; Franciscan Melange at Cliff House and Sutro Baths; Rock slope repair in chert and shale near Twin Peaks (optional stop at Twin Peaks if time and weather permit); Coastal defenses at Pacifica; The Devil’s Slide and decomposed granite and faulted coastal terraces of Montara Beach. Richard Goodman, Professor Emeritus, University California, Berkeley, will lead the tour.
Technical Tour 3
The Geysers/Napa Valley
Date: Thursday, 27 June; 7:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Cost: $140.00 Lunch and Wine Included
(Limited to 25 persons)
This tour will feature special technical visit to the Geysers, one of the largest geothermal power operations in the world and site of a recent Enhanced Geothermal demonstration project. The return trip to San Francisco will include a stop at a Napa winery, the Rutherford Hill Winery, for local wine tastings and guided tour of the winery property, which includes a walk through spectacular wine-aging caves and a special tasting in the cellar. Russ Ewy, Research Scientist at Chevron Energy Technology Company and a member of the ARMA Board, and Mark Walters, Senior Geologist with Calpine (operator of The Geysers), will lead the tour of The Geysers.
