BAESI Workshop 5 Nov 2005
Landcapes: Behind the Scenes


questions? contact Richard Sedlock: 408 924-5020 sedlock@geosun.sjsu.edu


Richard's presentations
These were made in Apple's Keynote and exported to PowerPoint, which explains any minor formatting glitches.

Conceptual flow chart

Tectonics & Topography

Processes (water, wind, ice, mass wasting)

SW U.S. paleogeography

California landscapes

Digital topography

Links for sites/materials used in the workshop

USGS Education: California (maps and many other CA-specific resources)

USGS Tapestry in Time and Terrain (digital topography & geology of North America).

Geography sources — including several useful geoscience links

Discover Our Earth — source of some of the slides Richard showed

US Paleogeography — source of the "Middle Earth" paleogeographic maps of the SW U.S.

California Water Map — from Water Education Foundation (for $), or from you local water district (for free, but I'm not sure about availability)

Download a PDF of the bend in strike-slip fault here.

Angel Island topo map (thanks Joel)

Other information

Do-it-yourself laminating:
Morrison School Supplies
560 E. El Camino Real Sunnyvale
408 749-1114, open M-Sat
24” wide, $0.65/linear foot

video excerpt was from Brittanica's "Beach A River of Sand"

Phil Stoffer's guide to Rocks and Geology in the San Francisco Bay region (PDF file)