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Here are some photos from the Fall 2006 Franciscan field trip. It was a great day, fabulous geology and weather. Please be patient while this page of photos loads...

Stop 1. Pacific Beach, walking to melange outcrop.

Casey lecturing at the outcrop.

Green stone in the melange.

Close up of the greenstone - nice pillows!

Rockaway beach quarry - notice fault between tilted beds and overlying sediments

Another look at that fault contact.

Rockaway Beach.

Ring Mountain blocks of blueschist.

Garnets in the blueschist at Ring Mountain.

Amazing faults in a block of blueschist on Ring Mountain

Foliation in Ring Mountain blueschist.

Chert of Marin Headlands.

Another view of the folded chert.

Pebbles from Rodeo Cove.

Casey Moore, fearless leader, on the outcrop showing the veined fault zone.

The fault core, with Nicole Kinsman showing the orientation of the veins.

Lovely pillow basalts at Rodeo Beach.