
Virtual and On-line Geologic Field Trip Guides
United States and Canada
We have listed web pages that contain descriptive local geological or
earth science information for the United States or Canada (excluding reports
of field trips containing only photos with no explanatory text). We have
also included links to downloadable versions of published paper texts.
If we have missed web pages that you think should be linked here,
please let us know.
Northeast, Middle Atlantic States
Southeast and South, Appalachians
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Carolina Geological Society Field Trips
(Most of the CGS guidebooks are made available here as pdf files).
- 1952 Great Smoky Mountains area, Tennessee and North Carolina
by Philip B. King, et al.
- 1952 Guidebook map BT 5,021KB tif (IBM PC byte order)
- 1953 Road Log for the Annual Excursion by W.C. Overstreet,
P.K. Theobald, Jr., and N.P. Cuppels
- 1953 As above but as a web page (no figures).
- 1955 North Carolina Coastal Plain by H.E. LeGrand and P.M.
Brown
- 1956 Kings Mountain Belt, by Thomas L. Kesler
- 1957 South Carolina Coastal Plain Field Trip by George E.
Siple
- 1958 South Carolina Coastal Plain by L. N. Smith and H. S.
Johnson
- 1959 Geology of the Albermarle and Denton Quadrangles, North
Carolina by A. A. Stromquist and J.F. Conley
- 1960 Road Log of the Grandfather Mountain Area North Carolina
by Bruce Bryant and John C. Reed, Jr.
- 1962 Road Log of The Geology of Moore County, North Carolina
by James F. Conley
- 1963 Geology of Pickens and Oconee Counties, South Carolina
by C. J. Cazeau and C. Q. Brown
- 1964 Road Log of the Chatham, Randolph and Orange County
Areas, North Carolina by George L. Bain
- 1964 Geologic Map of the NC Slate Belt Grayscale tif (IBM
Order)11662KB
- 1964 Field Trip Route Map Grayscale tif (IBM order) 635 KB
- 1965 Geology of York County, South Carolina by James Robert
Butler
- 1966 Cabarrus County, North Carolina by Harry E. LeGrand
and Henry Bell III
- 1967 Geology of the Mt. Rogers Area, Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee by Douglas W. Rankin
- 1968 Stratigraphy, Structure, and Petrology of the Piedmont
in Central South Carolina by D. T. Secor, Jr. and H. D. Wagener
- 1968 Map of Piedmont Geology in Central South Carolina Bitmap
tif (IBM order) 3,383 KB
- 1969 A Guide to the Geology of Northwestern South Carolina
by Villard S. Griffin, Jt. and Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. (Not yet available,
but see below for maps.)
- 1969 Guidebook Map Plate 1 Grayscale tif (IBM order) 14087
KB
- 1969 Guidebook Map Plate 2 Grayscale tif (IBM order) 4,996
KB
- 1970 Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Economic Geology of
Dan River Basin, North Carolina by Paul A. Thayer, et al.
- 1971 Stratigraphy and Structure of the Murphy Belt, North
Carolina by W. R. Power and J. T. Forest
- 1973 Granitic Plutons, Central and Eastern Piedmont, South
Carolina by H.D. Wagener and D. E. Howell
- 1974 Geology of the Piedmont and Coastal Plain Near Pageland,
South Carolina and Wadesboro, North Carolina by Henry Bell III, et al.
(some figures not available)
- 1975 Geology of the Blue Ridge South of the Great Smoky Mountains,
North Carolina by S. A. Kish, et al.
- 1976 Geology of the Eastern Blue Ridge of the Carolinas and
nearby Georgia by Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
- 1980 Geological Investigations of Piedmont and Triassic Rocks,
Central North Carolina and Virginia, edited by V. Price, Jr., et al.
- 1980 Field Trip Route Map Grayscale tif (IBM Order) 4965
KB
- 1980 Geologic Map with Field Stops Grayscale tif (IBM order)
27587 KB
- 1980 Magnetic Contour Lines and Major Structural Elements,
Piedmont of SW Virginia Grayscale tif (IBM order) 11107 KB
- 1980 Folds and Rock Characteristics in the Danville Area
Virginia (Plate 1 in Henika article) Grayscale tif (IBM order) 8031 KB
- 1980 Aeroradiometric Contours, Superimposed on the Geology
of the Blairs, Mout Hermon and Danville Quadrangles, Virginia Grayscale
tif (IBM order) 9416 KB
- 1980 Gravity Map of the Charlotte 1 x 2 NTMS Quadrangle Grayscale
tif (IBM order) 4572 KB
- 1983 Geologic Investigations in the Blue Ridge of Northwestern
North Carolina Edited by Sharon E. Lewis
- 1984 Carolina Slate Belt Southcentral North Carolina by Gail
G. Gibson and Steven A. Teeter
- 1985 The Virgilina Deformation: Implications of Stratigraphic
Correlation in the Carolina Slate Belt by C. W. Harris and Lynn Glover
- 1986 Cretaceous-Tertiary of the Upper Edge of the Coastal
Plain between North Augusta and Lexington, SC by P.G. Nystrom, et al.
(Not yet available, but see below for map)
- 1986 Geologic Map of the Upper Edge of the Coastal Plain,
etc., Plate 1 Grayscale tif (IBM order) 20669 KB
- 1988 Structure of the Sauratown Mountains North Carolina
edited by Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. See maps below.
- 1988 Map of Geology of the Western Sauratown Mountains Window
and Easternmost inner Piedmont North Carolina, R. D. Hatcher, Jr. 49,083
KB tif grayscale image in IBM PC byte order.
- 1988 Lineation Map of the Western Sauratown Mountains and
Easternmost Inner Piedmont, Tennis Heyn 7,159 KB tif bitmap in IBM PC
byte order.
- 1990 Geology of Grenville-Age Basement and Younger Cover
Rocks in the West Central Blue Ridge, North Carolina by C. E. Merschat
and L. S. Wiener
- 1992 Central Savannah River Area, South Carolina edited by
Wallace Fallaw and Van Price
- 1993 Studies of Inner Piedmont Geology with a Focus on the
Columbus Promontory Ed. R.D. Hatcher, Jr. and T.L. Davis (Not yet available,
but see below for map.)
- 1993 Geologic Map of the Columbus Promontory, Western Inner
Piedmont, North Carolina Grayscale tif (IBM order) 34743KB
- 1994 Geology and Field Trip Guide, Western Flank of the Raleigh
Metamorphic Belt, North Carolina eds. E. F. Stoddard and D. E. Blake
- 1995
Western Part of the Carolina Terrane in Northwestern South Carolina
by Allen J. Dennis and others. NOTE: This is not a downloadable file but
a link to a web page. It is not the complete guidebook, only the field
guide. See below for large map that accompanied the guidebook.
- 1995 Map of Rocks of the Carolina Terrane in the Spartanburg
30° x 60° quadrangle. This is a 60,672 KB tif grayscale image
in IBM PC byte order.
- 1997 Paleozoic Structure, Metamorphism, and Tectonics of
the Blue Ridge of Western North Carolina, Eds. K. G. Stewart, M.G. Adams
and C. H. Trupe
- 1998 The Carolina Terrane in Northeastern South Carolina,
Editor Don Secor
- 1998 Geology of the Ridgeway-Camden Area, South Carolina
Grayscale tif (IBM order) 2643KB
- 1998 The Carolina Terrane in Northeastern South Carolina
- 1999 Geology of the Fall Zone Region Along the North Carolina
- Virginia State Line, Editor Paul E. Sacks
- 2000 Savannah River Site Environmental Remediation Systems
in Unconsolidated Upper Coastal Plain Sediments Stratigraphic and Structural
Considerations editors Douglas E. Wyatt and Mary K. Harris
- Carolina
Coastal Science
. Interactive Carolina coastal processes pages.
-
Mt.
Airy Granite Quarry, North Carolina.
Largest open-faced granite quarry in the world
- Southern Appalachians
. University of Alabama excursion
- Western
Florida Coast. Barrier Island studies.
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Red River Gorge, Kentucky.
Tour of edge of eroding plateau
- Structural
features, Kentucky River Fault System
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Kentucky River Fault Zone.
Ordovician limestones and shales along KY highway 27 south of Lexington
-
Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists
. Includes link to pdf file of printed guidebook for 2000.
- Pendleton
County, West Virginia
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Wetumpka Impact Crater, Alabama.
A structure believed by some to be a meteorite impact crater
- Ocoee River Gorge,
Tennessee.
The Ocoee River Gorge along US Highway 64 in S.E. Tennessee
- Hurricane Katrina-What Happened? A geology field trip dedicated to the Hurricane Katrina natural disaster.
- Lafayette Geological Society Fieldtrips:
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Paleozoic Rocks of the Ozark Region. A historical Geology/
Petrology combined Field Trip
Central US, Midwest and Great Plains
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
- Houston
Geological Society Virtual Field Trip.
Sites of Geologic Interest in the Houston Area
- Brazos Bend
State Park, Texas.
Near Houston, Texas
- East-central Texas Coal Geology.
1995 Field Trip for The Society for Organic Petrology
- More geology
of Dallas County
. University of North Texas field trip
-
Travis
County, Texas.
Guide to Austin area
- Balcones Escarpment, Texas.
Contains field trip guide San Antonio to Austin
-
Llano Uplift Area, Central Texas. Lafayette Geological Society
field trip to Central Texas
- Rob Reed's
Llano Uplift.
"An island of rock excitement adrift in a sea of Cretaceous limestones"
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Enchanted Rock, Texas.
Guide to Precambrian granite outcrop in Central Texas
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Austin Chalk, Texas.
Virtual trip in and around Austin, Texas
- Waller Creek.
Guide to Waller Creek, University of Texas at Austin campus
- UT Austin Building Stones.
Walking tour of building stones, University of Texas at Austin
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Texas Hill Country.
Texas A&M tour of Central Texas hill country
- Coal in South
Texas.
1999 AAPG Annual Convention Energy Minerals Division Field Trip # 15
- Big Bend.
Texas A&M Guide to Big Bend National Park
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Permian Reef, Texas.
Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, New Mexico-West Texas
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Permian Reef Complex
. Delaware Basin of West Texas
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Franklin Mountains, Texas.
In and near El Paso, Texas
- El Paso.
A geologic history of the El Paso-Juarez area
- Aden
Crater.
New Mexico volcano near El Paso
- Kilbourne's
Hole.
Maar volcano in New Mexico near El Paso
- Afton
Lava Flow.
In Southern New Mexico near El Paso
-
El Paso-Carlsbad
. Geologic road log
-
Alamogordo-El Paso
. Geologic road log.
- McKittrick
Canyon
, Guadalupe Mts. National Park. Geologic road log
- Dark
Canyon vicinity
, Guadalupe Mts. area. Geologic Road log
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Carlsbad-Alamogordo
. Geologic road log
- Carlsbad
Caverns vicinity
. Geologic road log.
- Carlsbad Caverns
National Park.
- Black
Mountain Cinder Cone.
Southern New Mexico west of El Paso
- Valley
of Fires.
Lava flow in central New Mexico
-
Carrizozo Lava Flows
- Albuquerque Environment.
Albuquerque natural history, including geology
- Field Trip to Zuni-Bandera Malpais
. Northern New Mexico.
-
Cucharas Pass and Trinchera Peak
, Northern New Mexico
- Virtual Tour,
New Mexico Geology.
From the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
- Colorado
Plateau
. Guide to the Four Corners area. Pdf file by Annabelle Foos
- Grand Canyon.
Brief guide to Grand Canyon by Grand Canyon Explorer
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Grand Staircase
. Guide to Grand Staircase in Grand Canyon
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Guide to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
. Pdf file by Annabelle Foos
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Sunset Crater, Arizona.
Near Flagstaff
- Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona (a.k.a. Meteor Crater) Large guidebook from Lunar and Planetary Institute
- Sedona and the
Verde Valley Region
, Central Arizona
- Mineral
and Environmental Investigations Project SE Arizona.
This comes as a very large pdf file
- American
Southwest.
University of Lethbridge field trip ("Southwest" is a matter of perspective--for
Canadians, it includes a bit of Oregon)
Rocky Mountains, Basin and Range
- Sangre
de Cristo Range
. Westcliffe to Crestone, Colorado
- Energy resources,
Front Range, Colorado
.
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Indian Peaks, Colorado.
Glacial geomorphology in the Colorado Front Range
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Slumgullion
Earthflow, Hinsdale County, Colorado
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Lory State Park, Colorado.
Virtual tour of park in Larimer County, Colorado
- Golden, Morrison,
Colorado.
Virtual Field trip, Denver area.
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Laramide Structures along the Northeastern Flank of the Colorado Front
Range
- The
Geology of the Front Range (pdf file)
-
Pugatoire River Dinosaur Trackway (pdf file)
-
Florissant Fossil Beds .
(pdf file)
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Mineral Resources of Jefferson Country (pdf file)
- A
Manitou Springs Flood Scenario
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Colorado National Monument
, Southwestern Colorado. (pdf file)
- Glenwood
Springs.
Guide to geology of Glenwood Springs, Garfield Country, Colorado (pdf
file)
- Front Range.
Guidebook to geologic hazards of Front Range (pdf file)
- Ouray-Silverton
area.
Guide to geology, water quality and avalanche hazards (pdf file)
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Geologic resources of Jefferson County, Colorado
(pdf file)
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Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
.
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Glacier National Park.
Virtual field trip focuses on alpine glacial landscape interpretation
- Glacier
National Park.
Audio and visual info on glaciers
- Great Falls.
Field trip to area around Great Falls, Montana
- Central Montana.
Stratigraphy of central Montana field trip
- Water
in Montana.
Water flows in central and northern Montana
- Craters
of the Moon, Idaho.
Tour of the largest young basaltic lava field in the conterminous United
States
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Latah County, Idaho.
Trip in vicinity of Moscow, Idaho
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Mineralogy of Latah County, Idaho .
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Dinosaur National Monument
, Utah and Colorado. (pdf file)
- Bryce Canyon,
Utah.
Basic geology of Bryce Canyon National Park
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Bryce Canyon.
Guidebook by Annabelle Foos, pdf file.
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Moab region
guide, pdf file by Annabelle Foos
- Capitol Reef
and Henry Mountains.
Field trip in central Utah
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Capitol Reef.
Guidebook by Annabelle Foos, pdf file.
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Zion National Park
and nearby areas, pdf file.
- Great Salt Lake.
Geology and hydrology of Great Salt Lake
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Rock Canyon, Utah.
Trail guide (geology emphasized) to location near Provo, Utah.
-
Utah
sedimentary geology field trip page. Field trips to Big Cottonwood Canyon
area and Emigration Canyon area.
- Spor
Mountain, Utah .
Fluorspar, beryllium, and uranium deposits at Spor Mountain, Western Utah
- Great Basin Paleozoic Carbonate Platform: Facies, Facies Transitions, Depositional Models, Platform Architecture, Sequence Stratigraphy, And Predictive Mineral Host Models Field Trip Guidebook – Metallogeny of the Great Basin Project, August 17–22, 2003 (PDF from USGS)
- Nevada
Test Site.
Morphology and physics of explosion craters compared with impact structures
and volcanoes
-
Goodsprings mining district
. In Spring Mountains, southern Nevada
- Nevada Highway
50.
Geology between Carson City and Sand Mountain (pdf file)
- Truckee Meadows.
Field trip near Reno (pdf file)
- Peavine Peak. Near Reno (pdf file)
- Fossils and ancient
lakes in Western Nevada
- Steamboat Springs, Lake Tahoe
and vicinity. (pdf file)
- Faulting and earthquakes
. Lake Tahoe region
- Rocky Mountain
Association of Geologists. A page of short virtual field trips.
- Singing and booming sand
dunes
, Nevada and California
Pacific Coast except California
- North
Cascades National Park.
Three field trips.
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Mt. Rainier.
Eruptive history, road log, Mt. Rainier, Washington
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Indian Heaven volcanic field.
Volcanic field midway between Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams
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Mt. St. Helens.
Eruptive history, Mt. St. Helens
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Road Guide, Mt. St. Helens.
Online version of USGS Bulletin 1859 (updated)
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Mt. St. Helens.
Points of interest in Mt. St. Helens area
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Ape Cave.
Tour of a lava tube near Mt. St. Helens
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Spokane Aquifer.
Tour of Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer system
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Mt. Hood.
History, geology, and glaciation of Mt. Hood, Oregon
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Another Mt. Hood.
Geologic history and guide
-
Oregon Cascades.
Field guide to Oregon high Cascades
- Oregon
Coast Range
. From Portland Community College
-
Columbia River basalt.
Eastern Oregon, Idaho
- Malheur
Field Trip
. South-central Oregon
-
Newberry Crater
, Oregon.
California
- California
Geologic Field Trip Guides.
An index of Web pages of geologic field trip guides and related Web sites
compiled by the California Geological Survey.
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San Diego.
Locations in northern San Diego County
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Southern California Coastal Erosion.
Coastal erosion locales in northern San Diego County
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Southern California.
CSU Long Beach virtual geology of points in Southern California
- Santa Clarita
Valley
-
Channel Islands.
Geology of the S. California offshore islands
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Calico mining district
. S. California field trip
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Waterman Mine
. Near Barstow
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Mohawk Mine
. In the Ivanpah mining district, S. California
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Mountain Pass rare earth mine
. Ivanpah mining district.
-
Colosseum Mine
. In Ivanpah mining district
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Snow White talc mine
. Death Valley area
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Beck Spring iron deposit
. In Kingston Range
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War Eagle Mine
. Near Tecopa, California
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Mojave National Preserve
Stops at a few geological sites along Mojave National Preserve's most
popular roads
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Death Valley.
USGS virtual field trip in Death Valley
-
Death Valley.
Field trip to Death Valley from the UC Berkeley Geography Department
- Quaternary and
Pliocene of Death Valley region .
- Owens
Valley.
Trip from Mammoth Lakes to Owens Lake
-
Where Los Angeles's water comes from.
LA Aquaduct and E. Sierra Nevada
- Friends of the Pleistocene Owens Valley Guidebook
-
Quaternary Stratigraphy, Drainage-Basin Development, and Geomorphology of the Lake Manix Basin, Mojave Desert Friends of the Pleistocene-Pacific Cell 2007 Fall Field Trip (PDF from USGS)
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Dike swarms, Eastern Sierras.
Dikes in the high country of the central Sierra Nevada northwest of
Independence
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Yosemite.
Roadside geology of Yosemite Valley
- Northern
Monterey Bay, California.
Geology and coastal hazards. (PDF file)
-
Natural Bridges State Park.
Coastal Geology Monterey Bay area
-
UC Santa Cruz.
Geology of the UCSU campus
- Big Sur
. Pdf file from the Peninsula Geological Society
-
Loma Prieta earthquake.
Geology of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
-
Golden Gate.
Exposures on each side of Golden Gate Bridge
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San Francisco Bay Area.
Trip to San Andreas and Hayward faults, Bay area
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Another Bay Area Field Trip.
Locations showing sedimentary record for Neogene tectonic and structural
evolution, Bay Area
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Calaveras Fault, Hollister, California.
A walking tour of the Calaveras fault in Hollister, California
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San Andreas Fault.
Near San Francisco
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San Andreas Fault.
Watsonville-Hollister area
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Hayward Fault, California.
CSU Hayward tour of Hayward Fault
- Bodega
Head.
Salinian Terrane west of the San Andreas Fault
- Petrified
Forest, Sonoma County
- Sonoma
County, California.
Discussion of San Andreas Fault and associated geology
-
Smith River.
A Virtual Trip Through The Josephine Ophiolite
- Mt. Shasta
area/Klamath Mountains. (pdf file)
-
Lassen Peak, California.
Lassen Peak Region Points of Interest
-
Hawaii
Alaska
Canada
- Victoria
Park, Truro, Nova Scotia
A Walking Tour of Rocks, Minerals and Landforms of Victoria Park, Truro
- Building Stones
Truro, Nova Scotia
A Walking Tour of Rocks, Minerals & Building Stones of Prince Street,
Truro
- Landscapes
of Nova Scotia
A Virtual Field Trip of the Landscapes of Nova Scotia
- Fossils of Nova
Scotia
.
- Fossils of the Fundy
Coast
-
Sable Island
History and Natural history, but includes information on geology.
- Timmins
District, Ontario.
Excerpt from Geological Survey Of Canada open file 2161, field trip
6
- Lethbridge, Alberta
Virtual field trip of Lethbridge
- Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
Trip to pass on Highway 3 (Crowsnest Trail) west of Lethbridge, Alberta
- Waterton Lakes, Alberta
In southern Alberta
- Milk River, Alberta
On Montana-Alberta border
- Cypress Hills,
Alberta
In southeastern Alberta
- Castle Crown, Alberta
Castle Crown Wilderness in southern Alberta
A Final Note: If you cannot find an online geologic guidebook to
meet your needs, you may want to seek out traditional paper guidebooks. Here
is a guidebook search
engine
, from the American Geological Institute.