Day1/Week2

We started working today. We started gathering data and really getting involved with our environment. I am part of the Geology group, and along with Jeanette and Scott, I made a lot more observations than I thought that I would. We began by heading up towards an old water tower (the image below) to get a better view of the valley. Once there, we checked some topo maps, hopped some fences and headed up to the nearest cliff face behind us. We took a handful of points for archaeological, geological and hydrological reasons.

We though that we may have found a series of agricultural terraces since we found rock piles in a linear fashion on the down slope. We noticed a change in fluvial processes and rock sediment composition. After taking a few points, we came down from the base of the cliffs and began looking for both a survey mark and dramatic bends along a geological contact, which we had observed on a geological map. After meandering around near the main creek stream bed, we looked into where water starts to go underground. Although we ran out of time and were distracted by filming for a Roxy advertisement, we have a great place to start tomorrow. We are going to try and find better evidence of a true contact (by digging/sampling around stream and hill slopes) and follow it to see if it is similar to the geology map.

Today was fun, and now we have a much better idea what we are going to need in our data dictionary.

The water was also nice. Laying out into the ocean trying to catch an ultimate frisbee’s pretty fun.

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-Thomas