NEWSLETTER - Department of Geological Sciences - SDSU

GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT 

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY 

NEWSLETTER 

San Diego, CA 92182 Annual Newsletter, Vol. 9 Fall, 1978 

A LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN 

Dear Alumni and Friends: 

The fall semester is well underway bringing the usual 

whirl of TGIF's, midterm exams, petroleum industry 

recruitment and field trips. Seniors are trying to get their 

senior theses "nailed down" and those who intend to 

graduate with an MS in January are beginning to take on a 

characteristic "glassy-eyed look." The beginning of my 

third year as chairman has been a little easier in some 

ways (either practice makes perfect or my mind has 

become numbed past the pcint of pain). There always 

seems to be some new challenge to be met each year. 

This year it is Proposition 13 with the resultant budget 

cuts. Our normally tight operating budget suffered nearly 

a 20% cut. Student assistant funds were cut almost in half. 

Funds for new equipment were also severely cut back. 

One bright part of the picture is that we continue to 

receive support from alumni and industry which helps us 

maintain program quality at an undiminished level. The 

petroleum industry has been supportive as usual for 

which students and faculty alike are indeed grateful. 

Amoco Production Company, Getty Oil Company, Mobil 

Oil Corporation, Standard 011 Company of California and 

Union Oil Company have aided the department by 

awarding scholarships and/or unrestricted financial 

grants. At this time of cutbacks in funding by the state, you 

may wish to add your support to the department in the 

form of a tax deductible donation. See "Opportunities to 

Support the Department of Geological Sciences" 

elsewhere in this Newsletter. 

The faculty are doing some exciting things this year. 

Phil Kern is in Poland continuing his study of trace fossils. 

Clive Dorman is in Washington D.C. learning how to be a 

bureaucrat. Pat Abbott is on sabbatical leave. Phil and Pat 

will return to campus for the spring semester and Clive 

will return in September of 1979. Gordon Gastil, Mike 

Walawender and Monte Marshall were selected to 

partiCipate in Penrose Conferences this year. Dick Threet, 

Gary Peterson, Pat Abbott, Mike Walawender, Gordon 

Gastil, Rick Miller and I are getting busier by the day 

preparing for the 1979 GSA Annual Meeting to be held in 

San Diego. I hope many of you are going to take 

advantage of the opportunity to attend the meeting and 

visit the department. 

Congratulations are in order for Clive Dorman who 

was promoted to Associate Professor effective this fall. 

We are also pleased to welcome David Huntley to our 

faculty. He comes to us from the UniverSity of 

Connecticut. He did his graduate work in ground water 

hydrology and engineering geology at Colorado School of 

Edited by Kathy Jessup and Monte Marshall 

Mines so he is highly qualified to take over direction of the 

engineering geology and groundwater portions of our 

departmental program. Dick Threet is particularly pleased 

to welcome Dave. The department owes Dick a large debt 

of gratitude for keeping that portion of our program 

together until Dave joined us. Dick Threet put in a lot of 

extra time teaching classes which were new to him and 

volunteering for class overloads. A big departmental 

" thanks" goes to Dick for his effort. 

I will close with a note of thanks to Kathy Jessup for 

her usual good work in putting the Newsletter together 

and special thanks to Monte Marshall for his efforts 

regarding this year's edition . I hope you enjoy the 

Newsletter. If you do, let us know-and at the same time 

tell us something about your own activities so it can be 

included in the next edition. 

Sincerely yours, 

Richard W. Berry 

Chairman 

OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT 

THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL 

SCIENCES 

In order to maintain excellence of any program it takes 

that little extra effort. For us it means the extra hours 

spent in making the department go and grow in quality. 

For you it may mean making arrangements to do nate a 

piece of equipment which we need or it may mean 

reaching for a checkbook. 

The following is presented to you in hopes that you 

may find a way to begin (or continue) to support the 

Department of Geological Sciences. 

I) Scholarships and prizes. 

II) Donations to the "uncommitted" fu nd. Money is 

distributed from this fund to help defray student 

(and occasionally faculty) travel expenses to 

meetings of professional societies . Graduate 

students are also given support from this fund to 

help meet some of the expenses related to 

thesis preparation . On occasion it is possible to 

purchase supplies and small pieces of 

equipment which would not otherwise be 

possible. 

III) Major equipment fund. As the science of 

geology becomes increaSingly quantitative and 

analytical this fund takes on great im portance. 

Outstanding equipment needs in t h e 

department now include the following, among 

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others: X-ray diffraction/fluorescence, 

magnetometer (and other land based 

geophysical equipment), scanning electron 

microscope, differential thermal/thermo 

gravimetric analyzers, atomic absorption and 

many others. 

Small gifts or large gifts-money or equipment-all 

are important and gratefully received. These gifts are tax 

deductible. Many companies match, or even double or 

triple, donations of their employees. 

PATRICK l. ABBOTT, Professor 

Pat is on leave this fall semester. He will be analyzing acid 

volcanic rock clasts (rhyolite) from the San Diego vicinity 

and all possible source terranes to determine their trace 

element geochemistry. The results will hopefully yield 

distinctive "fingerprints" for rocks from different source 

areas thus allowing a comparison of trace element 

patterns to determine conglomerate provenance. 

RICHARD W. BERRY, Professor 

I feel like I've used up my fair share of Newsletter space, 

having written the Letter from the Chairman. Being 

chairman occupies far more than half my time. Between 

teaching one or two classes per semester and continuing 

as Associate Director of the Center for Marine Studies I 

f;nd, to my sorrow. that any research activity has dropped 

almost to zero. Last year I finished my term on the College 

of Sciences Promotion Committee by chairing the 

Committee. Being Chairman of the Program Committee for 

the 1979 National Meeting of the GSA helps keep me 

busy. 

KATHE K. BERTINE, Associate Professor 

Greetings to all out there. Wish I were there (anywhere but 

here) The weather is 110' and muggy. 

Have been busy with Gordon Gastll and several 

students working on hot springs in Baja and Southern 

California We just received a grant to support the work, so 

students won't go completely broke bribing farmers for 

access to their hot springs . As usual the money arrives 

after many students have finished their theses. 

Classes much as usua l. Took my marine geology 

class out to sea for a day. For a change, the sun was 

shining, the sea calm and all demonstrations worked 

(after a little fiddling) and no one got seasick! 

CLIVE E. DORMAN, Associate Professor 

Ciive is on a leave of absence for the academic year 

1978-1979. He has taken a temporary position with the 

National Science Foundation as a program associate for 

tl',e environmental forecasting section of IDOE. This 

t2mporary position is a unique opportunity. It will 

accelerate Clive's contract and membership in the 

national oceanographic community. It will insure his 

inv 01vement in the large-scale oceanographic programs 

in the 1980s which are being planned now. And. of course, 

it will not be of little interest for SDSU to have its own 

representative in one of the major granting agencies. 

GORDON GASTIL, Professor 

What did we do in 1977-78? Seems like we must have 

recovered from involvement in politics enough to get 

muchly involved mit der roches tambien. Student-wise I 

joined forces with Kathe Bert in e to supervise various 

senior theses and nlaster's theses studying hot springs 

on both sides of the border. This included a seminar 

devoted to the topic of hot springs and a couple of field 

trips to inspect and watch others do the chemistry. In 

some cases to sit in them also , and in one case to drink 

the carbonated water. Kathe and I now have a USGS 

contract to provide some money to assist this research . 

The Survey has also provided us (Monte and j) with some 

funds to map active faults in northern Baja California. A 

thesis on the fault at the eastern foot of the Sierra San 

Pedro Martir has already been completed by Greg Brown. 

Greg attempted to date the creation of fault terraces by 

carbon dating Ironwood trees. He found 1000 year old 

ironwood trees-apparently post-dating the most recent 

major offsets. 

In December I was the lone geologist at a "multidiscipline" 

gathering of life scientists at UCLA concerned 

with the islands of the Gulf of California. Later (I forget the 

dates) I presented a paper at Sacramento on the history of 

magmatism across Baja California and western Mexico 

(appeared in Mesozoic symposium of the SEPM). Then I 

rewrote this a little bit and presented it as part of the Ruby 

Symposium at UCLA (tc be published in a special volume 

soon). Then, we rewrote it just a little more and presented 

it at Hermosillo in a symposium on the geology of Sonora 

(if it ever appears it will be translated into Spanish). 

This past summer Monte Marshall and I and grad 

student Gary Pischke spent a month traveling the lands 

about the Gulf of California in search of ancient poles. 

Some of these poles were so ancient as to be prerevolutionary 

and pre-Roman. Some have been accused 

of secular devia tion-which is the worst kind (speaking of 

polish wurst). Any rate we sweated through the jungles of 

Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta and received much 

orientation in hard core geology. We are now developing a 

radical answer to Atwaterian geology in wh ich San Diego 

was the center of the earth and all other plata I matter 

darted about through geologic time collecting a melange 

of paleomagnetic orientations. 

DAVID HUNTLEY, Assistant Professor 

Frankly. I prefer not to think about last year or, more 

specifically, the last two years. Those years were spent at 

the University of Connecticut where between shoveling 

snow, picking myself up off the ice, 2nd swatting 

mosquitos, I managed to teach undergraduate courses in 

ground water hydrology and engineering geology and 

graduate cou rses in ground water hydrology and remote 

sensing. Connecticut was definitely a low point after living 

in San ta Barbara, Colorado, and now San Diego. 

I am still excited about teaching and doing research 

here (naive fool that I am).lt is nice to be in an area where 

I can show engineering geology stUdents places where 

people have built homes directly over potentially active 

faul t zones, a llover active landslides, and over subsiding 

san itary landfills. These are opportunities that I Simply 

didn't have in Connecticut. 

In addition to teaching Geology for Engineers, 

Engineering Geology, and Field Geology this first 

semester, I am in the process of finally buying a house, 

preparing two papers for final publication, clearing up 

three old research projects, submitting an NSF proposal 

fo r a new project and trying to convince graduate 

studen ts to work on the infinite number of ground water 

problems around. Pray for surf.


RICHARD L. THREET, Professor 

The sludents and I are happy that 1977-78 was my last 

year of trying to teach engineering geology a nd 

hydrogeology; I couldn't begin to fill Bill Ganus' shoes. We 

now have a properly qualified engineering geologist! 

hydrogeologist in the person of Dr. David Huntley, and I 

am now back to teaching myoid favorites of structural 

geology and geomorphology. During the 1977-78 school 

year, I also taught parts of the Introductory Field Geology 

course, Geology of National Parks and Monuments, and 

Photogeology. 

In addition to the usual field trip in photogeology to 

Frenchman Mountain and a local field trip of the San 

Diego Association of Geologists, my wife and I put 

together a guidebook and two -day field trip in the Borrego 

Springs area for about 100 persons from the Far Western 

Section of the National Association of Geology Teachers 

in mid-April. 

My wife and I spent about a week at the GSA 

National Meeting in Seattle in November, getting ideas on 

how to help host the meeting in 1979 in San Diego; we 

also had an enjoyable trip to the Land of Rainbow 

Canyons in Term I of the summer session , with three vans 

full of students and one van full of baggage. This past 

summer, Monte Marshall, Anne Sturz, and Robin Duke 

drove three of the vans and contributed in many other 

ways to the success of the trip (besides learning about 

something other than plate tectonics). At least two new 

female majors in geology came out of that group of 

summer students, and I'm sure that th e inspiration of 

Anne and Robin was instrumen tal in that decision, as was 

Monte's patient tutoring for my morning quizzes. 

Except for a short paper on the newly discovered 

Texas Street fault, in the SDAG guidebook for Fall, 1977, 

my "publications" have been mostly consulting reports. If 

you have been waiting breathlessly for my publication on 

the stereonet in celestial navigation, a telephone call from 

the editor of Cruising World (which Pat Abbott still thinks 

is a magazine for gay persons) promised it in the comi ng 

November issue. 

Supervising senior theses for Don Olsen, Bob Wiley, 

Kevin Heaton, and Doug Raines, and a master's thesis for 

John Peterson kept me busy, not to mention arguing with 

Dave Sawicki about The Thing Lineament in the Laguna 

Mountains. One of my most interesting diversions about a 

year ago was serving as an expert witness in a lawsuit on 

beach accretion on San Diego Bay (and winning our 

case). 

My wife and I made our annual trek to the Pacific 

Northwest, where our five acres of forest and an' adjoining 

house in Anacortes, Washington are still awaiting our 

retirement in June, 1980. Dungeness crabs are still 

abundant, and the San Juan Islands beckon fo r sailboat 

cruising. We are going to the GSA meetings in Toronto 

soon, for "dress rehearsa!," and we hope to see many of 

you at the GSA meetings at the Town and Country Hotel in 

Mission Valley in November, 1979. 

How could I forget? My wife and I are now 

grandparents-Daniel Allan iJnger, 18 in. (46 cm) and 5 lb. 

13 oz. (2.6 kg) born 26 August 1978 to Patty and Bob. 

MICHAEL J, WALAWENDER, Associate Professor 

Well gang, it was a most eventful summer. We are pleased 

to announce that Sonja and I are the proud parl3nts of a 

brand new baby boy-Joshua Michael. He's our fi rst and 

came in three weeks early at 6 Ibs. 1 oz. He's more than 

made up for lost time by doubling his weight in two 

months. We are now up to a four-hour feeding schedu le 

but love it. He's his daddy's pride and joy. 

To more mundane matters, I went through my usual 

comp lement of courses (petrology and the graduate-level 

igneous petrology) plus all the chores related to being 

graduate adv isor. I managed to get one paper out this 

sum mer on trace element modeling and it will appear in 

Journal of Geology later this year. I had too many 

graduate stUdents this year (8), all of whom planned to 

graduate over the summer. Two made it (Paul Lillis and 

Dave Sawicki!, four are in the final stages, and the 

remaining two are hoping to finish in absentia. I'm still in 

shock. 

I just recently returned from a week-long Penrose 

Conference on the origin of granite held in the Sierra 

Nevadas. It was a very stimulating meeting. I came away 

refreshed and with new ideas for research projects. 

Hopefully they'll reach fruition by this time next year. 

See you all at the National GSA Meeting' in San 

Diego next year. 

by 

Marge Neun 

MARGE and LEN NEUN took a "cheapy" vacation this 

year which included Yosemite, the Mother Lode and wine 

countries , Carmel and San Luis Obispo. Due to the heavy 

rains la st winter Yosemite was especially 

beautiful. .. KATHY and GEORGE JESSUP took their first 

"long-type" vacation, and I do mean long! They look two 

months to travel the Alaska Highway and visited many 

parts of British Columbia, the Yukon, and Alaska. 

Highlights of the trip were a seven-hour ferry trip from 

Valdez to Whittier with a thirty-minute stop in front of 

Columbia Glacier, seven days in Mt. McKinley National 

Park where they saw Mt. McKinley five times in five days 

(rarely seen due to cloud coverl, and two days spent 

above the Arctic Circle via the only public road in North 

America on which you can drive that far north .... DORTHY 

and ENOS STRAWN had a family reunion w ith their two 

daughters and families in Albuquerque, New Mexico the 

last week of July. One day was spent reviS iting an old 

Indian "fori" which had been discovered by the Strawns 

about 1953 some twelve miles north of Laguna Pueblo. 

The "fort" ruins were builtin the Upper Cretaceous Gallup 

sandstone member of the Lower Mancos Shale Fo rmation 

(this sandstone is highly productive of oil and gas in the 

subsurface of the San Juan basin farther north). Several 

arrowheads were found during the short outing, in 

addition to an excellent mano, plus much broken pottery. 

Some of the pottery was polychrome which suggests late 

habitation at the site ... . GRACE and JOHN BENDER spent 

two weeks traveling through Idaho, Montana, Washington, 

and Oregon during September .... ED GOOKIN's athletic 

endeavors th is year took him into the Laurentian 

Highlands northwest of Montreal for three days of 

orienteering competition and then two more days near 

Hamilton, Ontario. In competition against entrants from all 

over the world he managed to fin ish in the lower third of 

the fie ld and was the fourth American to finish. On Ihe 

second day he bashed his left knee against some 

unyielding pre-Cambrian rock and broke the bursa which 

remained swollen until he fell on it again. Hopefully, it will 

heal soon. A highlight for Ed this year was getting inviled 

to the Mohammed Ali Indoor Track Meet to compete in the


Although the buffet's food ran short along with a 

questionable recogn ition between the fish and a probable 

fritter, the night held to its traditional trick-or-treat charm. 

Dr. Mike " Da Da" Walawender won Professor of the Year 

Award, wh ic h wa s in no way connected with his graduate 

advisorship. Due to an early closing of the banquet's bar, a 

number of die hards made their way to the EI Cortez 

Lounge. Vague reports have been made of Superman's 

unexpected arrival there and his greenish coloration. 

Obviously these reports are fabrications or the result of 

the fish-fritters served at the banquet 

The second (in a series) spring semester auction 

was held to ra ise funds for the AGS. This year AGS 

auctioned off such items as bicycle tires and the book 

"Deep Throat," which was sold for an undisclosed amount 

to a young, impetuous female (name withheld). The event 

culminated by selling grab bags of corks, which after 

thrown about, were most useful in soaking up the beer. 

Many other such activities cerebral and acerebral 

are in store for the AGS with the he lp of geology student 

support in the years ahead. 

OFFICERS FOR SPRING SEMESTER, 1978 

President ... ..... . . . .. Chris Ruisaard 

Vice President .. . ... .. . . . Dennis Kerr 

Treasurer . . . . . . .... . . .... Greg Brown 

Secretary . . ... .......... Brad Erskine 

OFFICERS FOR FALL SEMESTER, 1978 

President, , ............. Gary Pischke 

Vice President ........... . Jim Clanin 

Treasurer . .......... . .. .. lindee Berg 

Secretary .................. . . Pat Bell 

SECOND ANNUAL MASTER'S THESIS 

SYMPOSIUM 

by 

Dennis Kerr 

For the second consecutive year the Association of 

Geology Students sponsored a colloquium for the 

presentation of master's theses. The purpo se of this 

program is twofold: Firstly, because the department is 

la rge and diversified, it is difficult for new students and 

faculty to be aware of the graduate research iri progress. 

Th us this program informs our fellow department 

members, and th e public, of current and fu tu re graduate 

research. Second ly, graduate students rec e ive 

experience in the concise verbal presentation of original 

research and ideas. 

The graduate colloquium was held May 15, 1978 

from 8:00 a.m. to about 4:30 p.m. The first hour and fifteen 

minutes was devoted to thesis proposal s in which 

graduate stu dents in the pfeliminary stages of research 

presented the purpose, scope , and research methods of 

their proposed theses. The remainder of the colloquium 

was devoted to thesis talks, which are more lengthy 

presentations by graduate students of completed theses 

or theses in the final stages of preparation. Also, the AGS 

presented cash awards to Ron Howa rd and Fred 

Sundberg for their thesis proposals, and Gretchen Bender 

and Dennis Ke rr for their thesis talks. 

Listed below are the participants, who are to be 

commended fo r making the "Second Annual Master's 

Thesis Colloquium" a success. 

THESIS PROPOSALS 

Scott B. Fenton -Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the 

Middle and Upper Cambrian Bonanza King 

Formation: Desert Range, Clark County, Nevada. 

Frederick A. Sundberg-Paleobiology and Depositional 

Environments of Upper Cambrian Rocks, Southern 

Great Basin. 

Gary M. Pishke-Subdivision of the Alisitos Formation, 

. West of Mision San Fernando, Baja California. 

Marc Young-Relationship of the Recent Sediment Cover 

to Underlying Geology in the Nearshore Continental 

Shelf Area off Northern San Diego County. 

Milton J. Sheely-Submarine Sediments of the Coronado 

Bank. 

Ronald P. Howard-Origin of the Inclusions within the Las 

Blancas Pluton, San Diego County, Ca lifornia. 

R. Keith Woidneck-Thermal Waters of the Agua Blanca 

Fau lt Zone, Baja California, Mexico. 

THESIS TALKS 

Gretchen L. Bender-Silurian and Devonian Stratigraphy 

and Depositional Environments, Inyo Mountains, 

California. 

Don W. Ware-Conodont Biostratigraphy and 

Depositional Environments of the Si lurian Roberts 

Mountain Formation, Southwestern Nevada. 

Michael Dawson-Paleontology of the Cabrillo Formation. 

Dennis Kerr-Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Split 

Mountain Formation, Southeastern San Dieg o and 

Southwestern Imperial Counties, California. 

Chris I. Ruisaard-Stratigraphy and Corre lation of the 

Miocene Alverson Andesite Formation, Southwest 

Imperial Valley, California. 

Robert Fourt-Stratigraphy and Structure of the Volcanic 

Hills, Southeastern Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, 

San Diego County, California. 

Richard T. Higley- Lower Pleistocene Channel Deposits 

of South San Diego and Adjacent Baja California. 

Gregory M. Rowley-Worldwide Analysis of Neogene 

S ubd uction-Accretion. 

Mark A. Adams-Structure and Petrography of the 

Santiago Peak Volcanics East of Rancho Santa Fe, 

California: A Progress Report. 

Duane Clark Balch-Petrology and Depositional Setting of 

the Santiago Peak Volcaniclastic Rocks. 

Richard J. Allinger-G eo logy, Petrology, and 

Geochemistry of the Viejas Mountain Gabbroic 

Pluton, Alpine. California. 

Paul G. Lillis -Petrography, Geochemistry, and Structure 

of the Corte Madera Gabbro Pluton, San Diego 

County, Ca lifornia . 

Gregory E. Muncill-Petrography and Geochemistry of the 

Eastern Margin of the Las Blancas Pluton, San Diego 

County, California. 

David A. Sawicki-A Structural and Petrograp hic 

Evaluation of the Thing Val ley Lineam ent, San Diego 

County, California.


Korenic, Jeff M.-Gravlty survey of the southern portion of 

the Elsinore fault zone, Coyote Mountains-Palm 

Canyon Wash, Imperial County, Southern California. 

Adviser: Marshall 

Lothamer, Richard T.-A gravity survey over a portion of 

the La Nacion Fault in San Diego, California. 

Adviser : Marshall 

McNamara, Patrick A.-Mountain erosion rates and 

sedimentation in Green Valley, California. 

Adviser: Abbott 

Olsen, Donald M.- The groundwater resources of Potrero. 

Adviser: Threet 

Palmer, David P.-Investigation of upwelling along the San 

Diego Coast. 

Adviser: Dorman 

Rowe, Kell y E.-Sedimentation rate analysis of sediments 

from south San Diego Bay. 

Adviser: Bertine 

Sachs, Kerry M.-Depositional environment of the 

Alberhil l coal. 


SanFilipo, John-A magnetiC survey of the Rose Canyon 

fault zone. 


Seitz, Randel R.-Mission Bay in a shed. 

Adviser: Dorman 

Serr, David W.-Clay mineral investigation of the Delmar 

formation . 

Adviser : Berry 

Shaw, Kenneth W.-Magnetic survey , southern portion of 

the Elsinore fault, Coyote Mountains, Imperial 

County. 


Smith, Rita Jean-An analysis of sands from commercial 

sand and gravel operations in San Diego County for 

the feasibility of recovering minerals of value. 

Adviser: Matthews 

Stewart, Michael R.-Reconnaissance geology and 

petrography of an area near Crest 

Adviser: Gastil 

Teasley, John F.-Gravity traverses on portions of the 

Rose Canyon fault. 


Weaver, Benjamin F.-Stratigraphy of the southwest 

corner of Isla Tiburon. 


Wiley, Robert A.- The geology adjacent to the Coyote 

Creek fault on the southwest side between Borrego 

sink and San Felipe Creek, Borrego Valley, 

California. 

Adviser: Threet 

lilinsky, George A.-Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy 

of the Mountain Springs formation, western Nevada. 

Adviser: Miller 

MASTER'S THESES 

Brown, Lawrence G.-Recent Fault Scarps Along the 

Eastern Escarpment of the Sierra San Pedro Martir, 

Baja California. 

8/78 


Crane, David J.-Structural Reconnaissance of the San 

Diego Mainland Shelf. 

12/77 

Adviser: Berry 

Dawson, Michael K.- The Paleontology of the Cabrillo 

Formation. 

7178 

Adviser: Kern 

lillis, Pau l G.-Petrography, Geochemistry, and Structure 

of the Corte Madera Gabbro Pluton, San Diego 

County, California 

7178 

Adviser: Walawender 

Lower, Steven R.-Use of Springs in Analysis of the 

Groundwater System at Mount Laguna, San Diego 


12177 


Nicholson, Geoffrey E.-Geology of the Upper Portion of 

the Millet Ranch Quadrangle, Nevada. 

4/78 

Adviser: Ptacek 

Nocita, Bruce W.-Clay-Size CaC0 3 and Clay Mineralogy 

of Recent Marine Sediments: Southern California 

Continental Borderland. 

12/77 

Adviser : Berry 

Peart, Janet E.-Deposits of Sulfur Hot Springs Along the 

Northeast Coast of Baja Californ ia . 

7178 


Riley, Cheyenne a .-Geochemical Analysis of Clay 

Seams from the La Posta Quartz Diorite, La Posta. 

San Diego County, California. 

6/78 


SawiCki, David A.-A Structural and Petrograph ic 

Eva luation of the Thing Val ley Lineament, San Diego 


7178 

Adviser: Walawender 

Woolley, John J.-Sedimentology of the Sespe and 

Vaque ros Formations, Santa Rosa Island , California. 

4178 


SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION OF GEOLOGISTS 

The San Diego Association of Geologists is a group of 

professional geologists with constitution, bylaws, and 

elected officers and board of directors. The group holds a 

monthly evening meeting (usually during the third week of 

the month) which consists of a social hour, dinner and 

talk. The monthly dinners average approximately $4.50 

per pe rson. 

Annual dues are $5.00 per calendar year for 

members, and $1 .50 per year for students. Student 

membership runs for one year from time of dues payment. 

Membership provides for you the monthly announcement 

and newsletter-a way of keeping up with coming events 

and news items . 

T he members of SDAG encourage student 

participation in the organization. In 1974 the members set 

up an award of $50 to be given to the best senior report at 

SDSU each year. The 1977-78 winner was John

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INTERVIEWERS FROM MAJOR OIL 

COMPANIES 

The department was visited by a number of interviewers 

who talked with our students in the Geology-Chemistry 

Building. The faculty and students are always pleased to 

welcome these visitors ; in fact this is the year's high point 

for many of the students. In 1977-78 we were visited by: 

P.E. Diamond 

Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. 

J.H. Dorman 

Tenneco Oil 

H.L Fothergi II 

Union Oil Company of California 

C.H . Glidden 

Union Oil Company of California 

D. Green 

Dresser Industries 

GW. Henderson 

AMOCO Production Company 

B. Hindle 

Sun Oil Company 

W.A. Jensky 

EXXON Company 

N.C. Knapp 

Mobil Oil Corporation 

S. Landon 

AMOCO Production Company 

A.J. Macm illan 

Texaco, Inc. 

C.J. Mercado 

Gulf Oi l Corporation 

R.A. Nesbit 

Gulf Oil Corporation 

G.M. Pittman 

Getty Oil Company 

B. Stanton 


D. Walters 

Dresser Industries 

D.L. Zieglar 

Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. 

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SERIES 

OF DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS 

For the twelfth year, we are scheduling a speaker every 

Wed nesday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. Everyone interested in 

geology and allied disciplines is urged to attend. We send 

the notices to many off-campus addresses, and if you 

wish to be included in our announcement mailing lis t just 

le t us know. You may not be aware that the speaker 

generally has dinner after the lecture with a group from 

the department. This gathering is by no means exclusive 

and we wou ld appreciate having studen ts, alumni, and 

other interested persons come along . 

Gordon Gastil is in charge of the speaker program 

this year, and inqu iries (or suggestions on speakers) 

should be directed to him. 

SPEAKERS 1977-78 

Sept. 14 Dr. Howard R. Gould, EXXON, " T he energy 

situation and opportunities for geologists." 

Sept. 21 Dr. Bruce F. Molnia, U.S. Geological Survey, 

"Recent sedimentation and marine environmental 

hazards of the Gu lf of Alaska." 

Sept. 28 Dr. F.K. North, Carleton University, Ottawa, 

Canada, "Significance of log-normalcy in 

estimations of frontier resources." 

Oct. 5 Dr. Stan M. White, Deep Sea Drilling Project, 

Scripps, "Scientific objectives/preliminary 

results of DSDP-IPOD." 

Oct. 12 Dr. K.F. Clark, University of Iowa, "Distribution 

of mineralization in time and space in 

Chihuahua, Mexico." 

Oct. 19 Dr. Neil J. Maloney, California State Un iv erS ity, 

Fullerton, "Man as a geological agent in Cartagena 

Bay, Colombia, South America." 

Oct. 26 Dr. Donald L. Lamar, Ca lifornia Earth Science 

Corporation, Santa Monica, "Faults and lineaments 

in basement terrane of San Diego County 

as seen on LANDSAT and Skylab images." 

Nov. 2 Dr. Arthur L. Boettcher, University of California, 

Los Angeles, "Amphiboles, magmas and subduction." 

Nov. 9 Dr. Clive E. Dorman, San Diego State University, 

"Oceanic rainfall." 

Nov. 16 Dr. Thomas L. Henyey, University of Southern 

California, "Heat flow and Cenozoic tectonics 

in southwestern United States." 

Nov. 30 Dr. Robert O. Fournier, U.S. Geological Survey, 

"Constraints on the circulation of meteoric 

water in hydrothermal systems imposed by the 

solubility of quartz." 

Dec. 7 Dr. James C. Ing le, Stanford University, 

"N eogene diatomites around the Pacific rim; 

origin and significance for Pac ific region 

stratigraphy, paleoceanography, and tectonics." 

Jan. 25 Dr. David Huntley, University of Connecticut, 

"Ground water recharge to the aquifers of 

northern San Luis Valley, Colorado." 

Feb. 3 Dr. Perry Rahn, Argonne National Laboratory, 

"Hydrogeologic impacts of uranium mines and 

mills." 

Feb. 8 Dr. Yaacov Bentor, Scripps Institution of 

Oceanograp hy, "Combustion metamorphism 

and its products." 

Feb. 15 Dr. James W. Valentine, UniverSity of Cali fornia, 

Santa Barbara, "Stochastic processes and 

phanerozoic diversity." 

Feb. 22 Dr. Joseph T. Gregory, University of Califo rnia, 

Berkeley, "Plate tectonics and the disappearance 

of continental borderlands."

Mar. 1 

Mar. 15 

Apr. 5 

Apr. 1 2 

Apr. 19 

Apr. 26 

May 3 

Ing. Guillermo Salas Piza, Universidad Sonora, 

"The geology of the porphyry copper deposits 

of Sonora." 

Dr. Floyd F. Sabins, University of California, 

Los Ange les, "Exploration applications of 

LANDSAT imagery." 

Dr. Patric k L. Abbott, San Diego State University, 

' "Eocene Poway conglomerate: provenance, 

depositional environments, and postdepositional 

offsets." 

Dr. Bruce P. Luyendyk, University of California, 

Santa Barbara, "Paleomagnetic tests of rotations 

in southern California." 

Dr. John C. Crowell, University of California, 

Santa Barbara, "Comments on the te ctonics of 

southeastern California." 

Dr. Patrick Muffler, U.S. Geological Survey, 

"Methods of assessing geothermal resource 

potential (including illustration from Italy}''' 

Mr. George Brogan, Woodward-Clyde Consultants, 

"The San Juan, Argentina earthquake of 

November 23, 1977." 

UNCOMMITTED FUNDS 

The UNCOMMITTED FUND of the Geological Sciences 

Department is used to help defray the expenses of 

students and faculty in presenting papers at scientific 

meetings and attending field trips at professional 

meetings. As you know, the San Diego State Geological 

Sciences Department works on a very restricted budget. If 

anyone would like to make a tax deductible contribution to 

this fund, please make out a check to the San Diego State 

University Foundation Geology Fund and return it with 

your news item. Thank you. 

CONTRIBUTIONS to the UNCOMMITTED FUND for 

1977-1978 were: 

Amoco Production Company $1,100.00 

Getty Oil Company... $1,000.00 

Mobil Oil Corporation ....... $1,000.00 

EXPENDITURES from UNCOMMITTED FUNDS were 

made to help defray expenses for the fol lowing: 

Senior Theses . . $100.00 

Master's Theses ... .. $351 .66 

GSA, Seattle. . .. $510.00 

GSA, Tempe. .. $ 60.00 

SEG, Los Angeles .... ... $150.00 

Faculty Re search ... ......... . $337.85 

Materials for Classroom Use .. $194.81 

Xeroxing Senior Report and 

Master's Thesis Abstracts ... $ 70.75 

Awards for 1977-1978: 

AWARDS 

$25.00-Donald Sorben, outstanding senior report, fall 

1977, awarded by Department of Geological 

Sciences, SDSU 

$25.00-John SanFilipo, outstanding senior report, spring 

1978, awarded by Department of Geological 

Sciences, SDSU 

Geological SCiences Department Newsletter - page 11 

$50.00-John SanFilipo, outstanding senior report, 

1978- 1979, awarded by San Diego Association of 

Geologists 

$25.00-Gretchen Bender, best thesis talk, 1978-1979, 

awarded by Association of Geology Students, SDSU 

$25.00-Dennis Kerr, best thesis talk, 1978-1979, 


$25 .00-Fred Sundberg, best thesis proposal. 

1978-1979, awarded by Association of · Geology 

Students, SDSU 

$25.00-Ron Howard, best thesis proposal, 1978-1979, 


RESEARCH GRANTS 

Research Grants for 1977-78 were: 

$500.00-Richard Allinger, Mobil Oil Corporation Senior 

Grant 

$175.00-Bruce Keller, Sigma Xi, Scientific Research 

Society of North America 

$1 OO.OO-David Sawicki, Sigma Xi Committee on Awards 

$1 OO.OO-Harl Hoppler, Sigma Xi Committee on Awards 

Scholarships for 1977-78: 

SCHOLARSHIPS 

./$ 75.00-Douglas Melius, outstanding geology major in 

historical geology, Baylor Brooks Scholarship 

$ 75.00-Thomas Coe, outstanding geology major in 

historical geology, Baylor Brooks Scholarship 

$375.00-Robert Campbell, an outstanding geology 

major, Getty Oil Company Scholarship 

$375.00-David Schug,_ an outstanding geology major, 

Getty Oil Company Scholarship 

/ $375.00-Paul Dowdy, an outstanding undergraduate, 

geophysics, Standard Oil Company of California 

Scholarship 

l $375.00-00nna Martin, an outstanding undergraduate, 

geophysics, Standard Oil Company of California 

Scholarship 

$500.00-Gregory Yvarra, an outstanding geology major, 

Union Oil Company of Cal ifornia Explorat ion 

Scholarship 

1979 GSA ANNUAL MEETING 

San Diego will be the host City for the 92nd Annual 

Meeting of the Geological Society of America, November 

5-8, 1979, at the Town and Country Hotel Convention 

Center. Th e following persons are chairmen of the 

respective sub-committees of the Coordinating 

Committee. 

Richard L. Threet-General Chairman 

E.L. Winterer-Cochairman-Treasurer 

Richard W. Berry and Gary L. Peterson-TeChnical 

Program 

Dorrie Threet-Spouse/G uest Activities 

Riohard P. Phi llips-Technical Services/Meeting 

Rooms 

Michael W. Hart-Transportation 

Patrick L. Abbott-Field Trips 

Michael J. Walawender-Stud ent Assistance/ 

Information 

John S. Shelton-Science Theater 

Richard Miller-Publicity/Printing 

We have received already from the local geologic 

fraternity offers of assistance with the many preparations

page 12 · Geological Sciences Department Newsletter 

and activities that will become more frantic during the 

coming year. We appreciate deeply your generosity, and 

we hope to enlist the aid of many more of you during the 

coming months. Let's pull together and make the 1979 

GSA meeting and field trips the biggest and best the GSA 

has ever had! 

Richard L. Threet 

SDSU GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES 

DEPARTMENT 

ALUMNI 

We at the Geological Sciences Department are glad to act 

as a clearing house and liaison to spread the news of what 

is happening among our far-flung alumni. We are pleased 

to include items from 20 of our alumni in this issue and 

hope many more of you will respond this year. If you would 

take the time to tear off the last sheet of th is newsletter 

and write us a paragraph or two about your professional 

and/or personal life, we will have it included in next year's 

newsletter. We t hink that being able to read of the 

accomplishments and lifestyles of our former students 

and classmates wilt be very interesting. 

Also, we have a definite ne ed to upgrade our 

incomplete file of alumni addresses. If you know the 

whereabouts of any former students listed or not listed in 

the address directory at the back, please inform us. 

CHARLES E. BARKER, University of California, 

Riverside. 2/78. After working for Union Oil Co., Tenneco 

Mining, Inc., and Tenneco Oil Co. in a period of th ree 

years, I decided to return to school for res t and re laxation. 

After two years at U.C.R., I'm ready to return to industry to 

keep my sanity! Currently, I'm working in the geothermal 

studies group at U.C.R. and hope to complete a thesis by 

June, 1979 on thermal alteration of phytoclasts and burial 

history of the Cerro Prieto geothermal field, Baja 

California, Mexico. 

CARL G, BOCK, Bechtel Associates, Washington, D.C. 

11177, Your Newsletter brought back many memories 

about "SDSC" even though I graduated 18 years ago. 

After working for the USN Public Works Office in San 

Diego on the "Ft. Rosecrans Landsl ide", I moved on to L.A. 

and worked for several soils and engineering geology 

companies as well as two geologic consultants in urban 

engineering geology. Spent two years in evening classes 

at USC in engineering geology and eventually joined 

Bechtel-that was 11 years ago. That brought a variety of 

projects including a groundwater study of the Coachella 

Valley, a pumped-storage project in Orange County, 

nuclear power plant siting in several states and selection 

of several dam sites in Montana. During that time, I've 

been 30 seconds from eternity in a cave-in of a trench 

across the San Andreas fault, a helicopter crash and a 

barge swamping during a nor-easterner in Cape Cod Bay. 

Six years ago I came to Washington for Bechtel and am 

Chief, Ge01echnical Group, and direct all ge01echnical 

work in soil and rock on the Metro subway system. Best 

regards to all of you at SDSU. 

RICH BOYD, Pacific Gas & Electric Company. 1178. 

Things are progressing for me here at Pacific Gas & 

Electric. I am now in a management position which I am 

not sure that I will really li ke. Will have to give it some time 

to settle in. I miss being in the field as I am sure most 

geologists do when they first start out. I am doing 

engineering geology in the power plant siting department. 

I'm working mostly on Siting geology for coal, fossil fuel, 

geothermal (at geysers) and some nuclear plan1s We 

work mostly through consultants (Woodward-Clyde, 

Dames & Moore and others) and I act as a go-between for 

top management. I plan out exploration programs, contact 

consultants, and use data to help write up Notice of 

Intentions to reg ula tory agencies (for plans to build power 

plants). I do get out in the field at times, but only in a 

supervisory sense -I don't do the work as they took the 

shovel out of my hands. I still keep my eyes and ears open 

for exploration jobs with mining or oil companies. One 

aspec t of engineering geology I really like is dam geology. 

I have worked on four of PG&E's major dams and a pumpstorage 

project. I planned, laid out, did the field work and 

wrote the geology report fo r a hydro project of PG&E's 

called Kerckhoff II. II's a FPC controlled project and I 

worked indirectly with Pa ul Bateman (project is in 

Mi llerton quad in Sierra foothills of FresnoL Three 

thousand feet of NX core drilled , underground 

powerhouse and 5 miles of 19 ft. diameter tunnel and 

penstock. Really in teresting hard rock geology (tonalite). 

NOWELL BRIEDIS, Union Oil, Anchorage. 9/78. Union 

in Alaska has done all right by me. I received a year's 

training and have had my chance at both development 

and exploration geology. Currently working on exploratory 

prospects in southern Alaska. Have been on numerous 

wells and field programs including a self-designed river 

float and sample trip which was great fun as well as 

geologically successful! Union is small enough that 

employees have plenty of responsibility and freedom in 

their work. 

Alaska, as you undoubtedly heard from others, is a 

great state for winter and summer outdoor adventures. I 

spen d most of my spare time backpacking, river rafting 

Whitewater, canoeing, fishing and cross country skiing. 

During the change of seasons there's time to work on 

indoor projects, read, etc. Drinking is a serious problem 

for many Alaskans, but if you keep active there's barely 

enough time fo r occasional parties and getting rowdy (an 

accepted San Diego tradition)! There's more than enough 

of the oppOSite sex to keep one occupied. All in all, I highly 

recommend working up here. There are many people 

work ing fo r Union here who refuse to transfer! I plan on 

staying a while longer too. 

T. SCOTT BRYAN, National Park Service, Glen Canyon 

National Recreation Area. 11/77. News? Not much. 

After getting my M.S. at the University of Montana back in 

1974 I began working full-1ime for the Park Service. All my 

jobs were seasonal-not a bad way to go considering the 

housing and utilities were provided at cheap, government 

rates. Got a permanent position in July, so I can now say I 

am an NPS Ranger by profession. Not too much geology 

involved, at least not generally or directly, but I hope to 

change that soonest. ... Glen Canyon-home of Edward 

Abbey's greatest "dislikes." A great country filled with a 

lousy dam, 3 lousy town, and sO !"n e lousy ;)eo ple. 

Hom e ... for awhile.

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STEVE QUIETT, Consulting Geologist, EI Cajon, 

California, 10178, Just a short note to update the Fall 

1978 Newsletter, I am no longer associaled with 

Geothermal Services, Inc. I have elected to strike out on 

my own (there is a dual meaning there that I hope doesn't 

come true). I am doing private consulting services now, 

since I successfully became a registered geologist in 

Oregon this past year. I will take the test for California 

registration next month (say a prayer on the 17th of 

November for all of usl, My best to all of you. 

CHEYENNE "0" RilEY, EXXON, Baytown, Texas, 8178, 

We have finally settled down here for a while. We have 

purchased a three bedroom, two full-bath house. The total 

square feet is 1350. Working for EXXON is a real joy. The 

work is very interesting and there is plenty of work. The 

people I work with are very helpful. I am constantly 

learning the oil game. I am planning on attending a logging 

sc hool in Houston. Elaine likes it here. She has found out 

that Mariah is a full-time job. Mariah is now two months 

old and growing like a weed. She has started to laugh and 

make noises. 

GARRY SOUTHARD, Mineral Resources Division, 

Winnipeg. 11/77. I've been working on defining uran ium 

and gold environments in Manitoba for the last couple of 

years. The federal government (Canadian) has flown 

some 200,000 square miles of Manitoba as part of their 

regional airborne and geochemical (lake sediment) 

uranium reconnaissance program. !'ve managed to keep 

reasonably busy investigating the resultant anomalies. 

The best seem to be tied to calc-silicate horizons within 

peletic and psammitic metasediments where varying 

amounts of anatexis has taken place. A number of 

anomalous pegmatites also show but so far nothing of 

sufficient tonnage and grade to be exciting. However we 

shall persevere. 

RICHARD THESKEN, Ohio State University, 2178. I 

arrived in Columbus on the first day of 1978, two days 

before classes began. It has been cold, rainy, foggy, and 

snowy the whole trip but when I arrived here it was about 

-5°, with a mean wind. I figured I was crazy to have left 

paradise for this and the thought of retreating back to San 

Diego did occur to me. But after driving 600 miles and 

about 12-14 hours a day x-country, without a companion 

to talk to, a radio to listen to, or scenery to look at, I was 

ready to make this place a permanent home. So I moved 

into the only graduate housing on campus that had a 

spare bed (I had no idea where I was going to stay when I 

got herel, and it happened to be an International House 

with 50% American and 50% foreign students. Last week, 

the city's coal supply froze making it impossible to use 

and the power plants shut off power in certain parts of the 

town. There is also a "salt crisis" in this town due to the 

heavy snow. All classes at O.S.U. were cancelled last 

Friday because of the record snowfall. This is a fabulous 

school with facilities that are out of this world. I feel that 

the training I received at San Diego State was excellent, 

preparing me for grad school in a more thorough manner 

than most of these graduates here. Many of them haven't 

had half the courses I had as an undergraduate and aren't 

nearly as prepared to be graduates. I shall always have 

memories of structural geology, photogeology, and the 

field trips to Split Mountain and the Frenchman 

Mountains. Structure was one of the toughest yet most 

instructive geology course that I took at SDSU (it he lped 

me on the GRE tremendously). In photogeology, I really 

learned how to map. N ow I take my stereoscope (and 

stereonet) wherever I go. 

GAEL H, TROUGHTON, Amerada Hess Corp" Rio Vista, 

California, 10/78, I'm still here among the grapes and 

wine looking for Sacramento Valley natural gas. I drilled 

seven wells last fall; two were new pool discoveries, and 

one was a "geologic success but an economic failure" - if 

you know what I mean. Right now I'm in the middle of 

drilling a directional hole. I guess I found enough gas last 

year to get a promotion to senior geologist in April 1978. 

My wife and I bought a house in Lodi ("Stuck in Lodi 

again"l last year and have been busy with the usual 

landscaping and fixing up. I spent a lot of time in the 

garden this year and ended up with a good harvest of 

vegetables. Now I' m getting into woodworking, so decided 

to build a grandfather clock from a k it. Ran into a lot of 

SDSU grads at the Sacramento AAPG meeting in April 

1978. It was great to see how well everybody is doing. I 

spent a week in Vail, Colorado at the AAPG structural 

geology course, July 1978. Hope to see everybody at 

Anaheim in 1979. 

ED WOSIKA, Humboldt State University. 2/78, I'm 

completing my M.S. in Watershed Management here at 

H.S.U. My thesis is: "Hydrology of the Soils of the Casper 

Creek Watershed, Near Fort Bragg, California." Geology 

really ties in well with watershed work, and a degree in 

each gives the graduate an excellent shoe-in to a variety 

of jobs throughout the seventeen western states. I chose 

soils and hydrology as my emphases, but you could stick 

to geology, or go into fisheries, range management, 

forestry, natural resources, etc., and still get your degree 

in W.M. (you can virtually write your own ticket here). 

Entry into the graduate school {in W.M.l is Quite easy, 

unless the program is overloaded. A condensed version of 

my th esis will be published through the Pacific Southwest 

Forest & Range Experiment Station (Forest Service). In 

addition, I am presenting a paper this com ing March to the 

ann ual meeting of the Northwest Scientific Association, 

entitled "The Uses of Horizontal Stereophotography in 

Illustrating Professional Papers in the Natural Resource 

Scien ces" (co-authored by my senior professor, Dr. Carl 

Yee). Anyone wishing further information on the opportunities 

at H.S.U. is welcome to drop me a line.

Robert Q. Gutzler 873 

427 Deike Building 

The Pennsylvania Slate University 

University Park, PA 16902 

Gregory H. Haake 877 

5930 Arapaho # 1159 

Dallas, TX 75248 

Stan Halenfeld 

Harold Hainley 870 

4901 Twain Avenue 

San Diego, CA 92120 

8rian Hale 878 

Rodney W. Hall 876 

Ronald Hallum 876 

5955 Amaya Drive 

La Mesa, CA 92041 

Dennis Hannan 87 0 

Leighton & Assoc. 

17975 Skypark Circle, Suite J 

Irvine, CA 92714 

L. Rogers Hardy M73 

Exploration Department 

Standard 011 Co. of Calilornia 

Western Operations, Inc. 

320 Markel Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Stephen C. Harner 8 7 4 

Borst & Giddens 011 Well Logging 

Service 

1461 Arundell Avenue 

Ventura, CA 93003 

Natalie Harper.Milier 

1256 49th Street 

Sweet Home, OR 97386 

James Harrington 876 

Michael Hart M72 

GeoCon 

6645 Convoy Court 


Tim W. Harvey 877 

4346 52nd Street, 11'12 


Roger Haworth 

P.o. Box811 

Ventura, CA 93001 

Kevin M. Heaton 878 

4388 Arcadia Dr. 


Peter Helander B69 

Salagatan 39A 

75326 Uppsala, SWEDEN 

Jay Heldenbrand 

Arthur J. Henry 

Mike Henry B7 1 M76 

Gulf Energy & Minerals Co . 

P.O. Box 1392 

Bakersfield, CA 93302 

Bradly L. Herbert B77 

7111 Mohawk SI. 

San Diego, CA 921 1 5 

E. R. Hering 

Occidental Petroleum 

5000 Stockdale Highway 

Bakersfield, CA 93309 

James Herring 

3911·A Miramar Street 

La Jolla, CA 92037 

Matthew Hickle 878 

2056 Phalarope 

Costa Mesa, CA 92626 

David E. Hicks 

6431 Vickery 

Dallas, TX 75214 

John R. High 877 

1932 Greenfield Dr. 

EI Cajon, CA 92021 

Richard T. Higley B76 

2875 So. Adelita Drive 

Hacienda Heights. CA 91745 

Tom Hilde 

Depts. of Oceanography & 

Geophysics 

Tex.as A&M University 

College Station, TX 77843 

Bruce Hillard 876 

463 G St. 

Chula Vista, CA 92010 

Rogor G. Hillhouse 

John Hiner B71 

Box 8097 

University Station 

Reno, NV 89507 

David A. Hoffman M75 

Amoco Production Co. 

Security Ufe Bldg. 

Denver. CO 80202 

George Hofman B68 

John C. Holden M63 

Star Route, Box 21 

Winthrop. WA 98862 

Theodore Hold! 

Lawrence Holmes 878 

330 La Vela Avenue 

Encinitas, CA 92024 

Glenn Holt B76 

5564 Trinity Way 


Har! Happier 875 

cIa Mobil Oil (Exp. & Prod.) 

Box 5444 

De nver, CO 80217 

Peter Hard 

Christine Houston 878 

23410 Elm Ave. 

Torrance, CA 90505 

Ronald P. Howard 

3306 Janwood Ln. 

Garland, TX 75042 

Charles N. Howell Former Stall 

4629 Denwood Rd. 


BrianW. Hoyt B76 

801 W. Ward #10 

Ridgcresl, CA 93555 

Dan H. Hoyt M76 

Offshore Alaska 

EXXON Co. U.S.A. 

P.O. Box 21 80 

Houston, T X 77001 

Paul Hummel 872 

K N. Hunt 874 

Charles Hurst B68 M76 

cIa SA Scott & Co. 

Consulting Mining Engineers. Inc. 

12567 W. Cedar 

Lakewood, CO 80228 

o 

Doug Inman 

U. C. San Diego 

Scripps Institution of Oceanography 

La Jolla, CA 92037 

Joe 8S70 and Sonja MS70 Ilson 

4349 Cartulina Road 

San Diego. CA 92124 

Allen James B71 

Western Geophysical Co . of Ame rica 

8100 West Park 

Houston, TX 77001 

Harvey James M73 

13633 Monle Vista Road 

Elsinore, CA 92330 

Edward J. Jansen B78 

14538 Victoria Estates 

San Diego, CA 

Lawrence Jansen B76 

11175 Corley Drive 

Whittier, CA 90604 

Corey P. Jecter B75 

9515 Pettswood Dr. 

Huntington Beach, CA 92646 

Wally Jensky 871 

1394 E. Upphlngham Drive 

Thousand Oaks. CA 91360 

Bill Johnson 

Ian M. Johnston 

32 80x Ridge Avenue 

Purley, Surrey 

CR23AQ 

ENGLAND 

Bill Jones 

22 Domingo Street, # 1 04 

Berkeley, CA 94705 

Sleven Jones M73 

Mobil Oil Corporation 

612 So. Flower SI. 

Los Angeles, CA 90017 

John V. Kaiser B67 

John C. Karpinski 

Kenneth Kazmerski 874 

2756 Tokalon Ave . 

San Diego, CA 9211 0 

A. T. Kebort 

2251 Russ Street 

Eureka, CA 95301 

Donald Kelm M72 

Chief Geophysicist 

BP Canada 

335 Eighth Avenue, SW 

Calgary 2, Alberta CANADA 

George L. Kennedy 868 

U.S. Geological Survey, MS77 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

Stephen E. Kerlick 875 

2604 Hughes 

Midland, TX 79701 

Curtis A. Kimes 872 

Bureau 01 Land Management 

Pacific OCS Office 

300 N. LosAngelesSt.. Rm 7127 


Allen King B69 

Frank Kingery B 71 M73 

WE$TEC Services. Inc. 

1520 State Street 


Richard P. Kissel B77 

1613 Ft. Stockton Dr. 

San Diego. CA 921 03 

Daryl l. Knapp 875 

Core Lab, Inc. 

401 Canal Street 

Wilmington, CA 90744 

Dick Knowles 

John Koman B75 

Jerry Kopel M70 

Standard Oil Co . of California 

Western Operations, Inc. 

ProduCing Department 

P.O. Box 7643 

San Francisco, CA 94120 

Jeff Korenic B78 

6105 Jackson Dr. 


Ronald Kreitinger 

Geological Sciences Department Newsletter· page 17 

Gerald G. Kuhn 873 

Geological Research Dlv. 

Scripps I nstltution of Oceanography 

La Jolla. CA 92039 

Tom Kuper 8 76 

7174 Murray Park Drive 


Ronald T. LaBorde B67 

U. C. San Diego 

Scripps Institution of Oceanography 

La Jol la, CA 92037 

Tom Lamb B69 M74 

P.O. Box 1 78 

JamUl, CA 92035 

Werner Landry 876 

Kerry Lattimore 875 

3470 Horton Lane 

Carmichael. CA 92608 

Ben Law 867 Meg 

U.S. Geological Survey 

Mail Stop 607 

Denver Federal Center 

Den ver. CO 80225 

l. L. Laymon 

Geologist, Division of Ground Water 

North Carolina Dept. of Water 

Resources 

P.O. 8 0x 27687 

Raleigh, NC 2761 1 

Tim Layson 

9220 Shirley Court 


Robert W. Leblanc 

S. H Leedom B67 

Lloyd Lehrer 867 

401 . 9th Street 

Manhattan BeaCh, CA 90266 

Richard 868 and Kathy Lehtola 

211 West Wa lnut 


Steve Levy 

cl o Chevron 011 Co. 

1111 Tulane Ave. 

New Orleans, LA 701 12 

Robert H. Lewis B77 

Dr. Willard libby Former Faculty 

Geol. Su rvey of Western Australia 

Mineral House 

66 Adelaide Terrace 

Perth, WA 6000 AUSTRALIA 

Lee Ligon 869 

Tenneco 0 11 Co. 

P.O. Box 2888 


Paul Lillis M78 

4500 E. Tennessee Ave., #507 

Denver, CO 80222 

Edwin D. Lindgren 876 

Department of Geological Sciences 

University o f Tex.as at Austin 

Austin, TX 78784 

Bob Liska M64 

clo Texaco Trinidad, Inc. 

Pointe·a·Pierre. Trinidad 

WEST INDIES 

David Lloyd 876 

23323 Calvert Street 

Wood land Hills, CA 91364 

Wayland Loomis 

6775 Alvarado Rd. #32 


Richard Lothamer 878 

19660 Syracuse 

Oe troil Ml 48234 

Charles Lough 

4761 E. Mountain View Or. 

San Diego, CA 92116

Ronald N. Quigg B77 

8848 Capricorn Way 


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I II. 

Mike Rahilly B68 

Woodward-Gizienski & Assoc 

3467 Kurtz Sireet 

San Diego. CA92110 

Douglas K. Raines 


P.O Box 3360 

Casper. WY 82602 

Marvin Ratclill 

Art Ravenscrolt B69 M74 

Texaco. Inc. 

Los Angeles. CA 

Jay H . Reed 875 

639 East Orange 

Sierra Madre. CA 91024 

Robert G. Reed M67 

Siandard Oit Co. 

Western Operations 

575 Markel St.. Rm 1584 

San FrancIsco, CA 94105 

James C. Renfro B68 

David Rightenour 

c. o Depl. 01 Waler Resources 

Box A. Project Geology 

Palmdale. CA 93550 

Cheyenne "0" Riley M78 

EXXON 

Baytown. TX 

R E. Roberts 

4508 · 3rd Street 

La Mesa. CA 92041 

Jim Robinson 874 

6012 Tampa Avenue 

Tarzana. CA 91356 

John Robinson B72 M75 

Amoco Production Co. 

Security Ufe Bldg. 


Mark Rogers B70 

Penzoil 

1520 W 13th Avenue 


Robert J. Rosseller B70 M73 

c 0 Indonesian Gull Oil Corp. 

Jalan. Melawai. IX. 2-4 

Kebayoran. Baru 

POBox 2782 

Jakarta. INDONESIA 

Kelly E. Rowe 878 

1621 Mars Ave. 

Lakewood.OH 44107 

Steven L. Rowe B75 

27 Carroll Court 

Pillsburg. CA 94565 

Robert Rowland 

Ollice 01 Marine Geology 


National Center. Mall Stop 916 

Reston. VA 22092 

Bob Ruff 874 

Mike Ru iz B7 2 

Dept. of Geological Sciences 

U.C Santa Barbara 

Sanla Barbara. CA 93106 

Douglas P. Ryan 

James Rynicki 876 

PO Box17446 


Bahram Saadati 

Kerry M. Sachs 878 

821 B Street 

Davis. C A 95616 

Andrew Sandusky B67 

641 O'Farrell Streel Apt 706 

San Francisco. CA 94109 

John SanFilipo B 78 

4214 52nd Street 


Steven Sasaki 875 

4850 Greenbrae Road 

Rocklin. CA 95677 

Burt Sawade 875 

6219 Lake Ariana Avenue 


David A. Sawicki M78 

Ray Scaramella 869 

C.W. LaMonte & Associates 

8145 Ronson Road 


Robert B. Scarborough 867 

Dept. 01 Geosciences 

University 01 Arizona 

Tucson, AZ 8571 9 

Bill Scarbourgh 

Dept 01 Geology 

University of Arizona 

Tucson. AZ 85719 

Richard Schalzinger B72 M75 

Depl. of Geological Sciences 

University of Texas 

Austin. TX 78712 

Bruce Schiebach B7 2 

Bechtel Corporation 

P.o . Box 3965 

San Francisco. CA g4119 

R C. Scheidemann B76 

54 Legend Road 

San Anselmo, CA 94960 

Judith A. Schiebout Former Faculty 

Dept. of Geology 

Louisiana State University 

Balon Rouge. LA 70803 

Charlie Schile M74 

Union Oil Co. of Great Britain 

32 Cadbury Road 

Sundbury-on-Thames 

Middlesex, ENGLAND TWI6.7LU 

James E. Schroeder M67 

Southern California GasCo, 

720 West Eighth Street 

Los Angeles. CA 90017 

Kenneth Schu1te 

Bureau of land Managemenl 

831 Barstow Rd. 

Barstow. CA 923 11 

Steven Scoll B72 

Fugro Corporation 

3777 Long Beach Boulevard 

Long Beach. CA 90807 

William C. Seek in s M74 

P.O. 80x 223 

Philo, CA 95466 

Randy Seitz 878 

624 Missouri 


David Serr 878 

8835 La Mesa Blvd. 


Ron Sever B76 

1525 Maurine Place 

Fullerton, CA 92631 

Douglas Shannon 877 

Frederick E. Shapley 

Kenneth Shaw B78 

12008 East Trail 

Lake View Terrace. CA 91342 

George Sharman Forme r Faculty 

Dept. of Oceanography 

Texas A&M University 

College Station, TX 77843 

Monzer Shawa M70 

Home Oil Company, lid. 

304 - 6th Avenue SW. 

Calgary. Alberta CANADA T2P OR4 

Milton Sheely 8S76 

8696B Tyler St 

Spring Valley. CA 92077 

J. M. Sheller B72 

Phillip l. Sherer B69 M76 

4511 Cherokee, lf7 


Richa rd L Sherer 

Minerals Exploration Co 

1708 West Grant Road 

Grant Road Industrial Center 

Tucson, AZ 85705 

Jim Sherrick (deceased) 

Dan P Short 

205 W. Kenilwurlh 

New Orleans, LA 70124 

Dennis Sienko 

Tom Sills Jr 873 

34996 Clayburn Road 

Clayburn, British Columbia 

CANADA VOX lEO 

Garey L Simpson 

505 Hi llsdale Avenue 

San Jose, CA 95136 

William P. Skinner B74 

Robert Slyker M70 

clo American OverseasPelroleum 

(Spain) lid 

Aradices No 13, 1 D·, Madrid 

SPAIN 15 

Brian Smith 

12 Lauriston Street 

Providence, RI 02906 

Duane R. Smith B72 

Maynard Smith 873 

Star Route Box #1132 

Tehachapi. CA 93561 

Mike & Janet Smith M7S 

5866 E Weaver Circle 

Englewood, CO 80110 

Randall Smilh B69 

Rita Jean Smith 

8970 Linden Lane 


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Terence E Smith Former Visiting 

Professor 

Department of Geology & Geological 

Engineering 

University 0 1 Windsor 

Windsor. Ont, CANADA N983P4 

Warren L. Smith 867 

Norman a Smyers M70 

Bu reau 01 La nd Management- 

Winnemucca District Office 

705 E. 4th Street 

Winnemucca, NV 89445 

H. M. Snyder 870 

Mike Sommer B70 

Brown University 

Dept. of Geological Sciences 

Rhode [sland Hall 

Providence, AI 02912 

Dona ld R Sorben B77 

Shepardson Eng. 

1083 N. Cuyamaca 

EI Cajon. CA 92020 

Garry Southard B72 

Mineral Resources Division 

Province of Manitoba 

993 Century SI. 

Winnipeg. Manitoba, CANAOA 

William C. Speidel M73 

Intersea Research Corp. 

11760 Sorrento Valley Road 


Douglas W. Staib 

1720-A Paula Drive 

Honolulu, HI96816 

Stephen C. Steinke 877 

16408 MI. Keller 

Fountain Valley, CA 92708 

Gary R. Stephany 

5043 August Street 

San Diego. CA92110 

Michael Stewart B78 

6199 Horlon Dr. 


Oa Ie M Stickney 

4525 Twain Avenue, #84 


James Stites 970 

Chanslor-Western Oil & Development 

p.O. Box H 

Fellows, CA 93224 

Robert Strandstra B72 

Ge l ty Oil Co . 

3810 Wilshire Blvd. 


Oaryl Strell1 B71 

Woodward-Gizienski & Assoc 

3467 Kurtz Street 


Jim B68 and Peg 869 StrOh 

The Evergreen Slate College 

Lab 3009 

Olympia. WA 98505 

Larry Sirong 871 

Charles J. Stuart 

Depl. of Geological Sciences 

University of Texas at EI Paso 

EI Paso. TX 79968 

Juley Stump B67 

Tom Stump B70 M72 

Amoco Production Co 

Security Lile Bldg. 


AnneA Sturz B74 M76 

6466 Bonnie View Drive 


Francisco Suarez 

Ave. Espinosa 843 

Ensenada. Ba ja California 

Steven C. Suitt 877 

6136 Acorn SI. 


Jim Sweeney M75 

Susan Teal B73 

4020 47th St . 


John Teasley 978 

3702 Los Ol ivos 

La Crescenta, CA 9121 4 

Ann Terry B69 M72 

4665 Verba Santa Drive 


John Thaw 870 

Lincoln Theismeyer Former Faculty 

Richard Thesken 

8875 Hillery Dr. 

San Diego, CA 

Blakemore E. Thomas Former Faculty 

2316 Calle Colibri 

Sanla Fe, NM 87501 

Jack Thompson 

26232 Via Estelila 

San Juan Capislrano. CA 92675 

Walter B. Thompson 867 

Waller C. Timm B67 

Jan W. Tobiska B75 

3777 Park Boulevard, 11-10 


Gael H. Troughlon M74 

Amerada Hess Co 

1000 Amerada Road 

Box 417 

Rio Vista, CA 94571


John M. Turner 

1001 Creekside Way 

Oiai, CA 93023 

Keith A Valdez 877 

709 Larsson SI. 

Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 

Lee Vanderhurst B76 

Colton & Assoc. 

314 Tait Ave. 

los Gatos, CA 95030 

George Van Slyke 

Colorado Division of Water Resources 

1313 Sherman Street 

Room 818 Centennial B ldg . 


James Vantine 

Ann B. Varnado 872 

J. R. Va ughan 867 

AI Venton 

Krooskos & Associates 

4320 Vandever Avenue 


Ga ry W. Vogt 868 

Brent J. Voorhees B75 

Geology Department 

Northern Arizona University 

Flagstaff, AZ 8600 I 

John Wageman 

1434 N. Chell on Rd . 

Colorado Springs. CO 80909 

Allen Waggoner 875 

740 San luis Rey 


Raymond Waldbaum M70 

1610 Loma Crest 

Glendale, CA 91205 

Don W. Ware 

26466 Calle San Francisco 

San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 

Alten Watson 877 

2018 Santiago Drive 

Newport Beach, CA 92660 

Ben Weaver 878 

521 Mar Vista Dr. 

Solana 8each. CA 92075 

Timothy D. Webb 877 

53 E. Mank.ato St. 

Chula Vista. CA 92010 

Gary Webster Former Faculty 


Washington Stale UniverSity 

Pullman, WA 99163 

Byron Weege 876 

Box 989 

Del Mar, CA 9201 4 

John A. Weidman 9S76 

700 Poinsettia 

Corona Del Mar. CA 92625 

Mitch Weiner 874 


P.o. Box 2857 

Raleigh, NC 27602 

Burrell W Welch 

Clancy Wendt 

Du val Corporation 

5357 Easl Pima Street 

Tucson. AZ 85712 

Steve Westin B7 4 

228 West Jones 

Brawley. CA 92227 

Wendle l. Whipple 

Su pervising Su rveyor 

Central Contra Costa Sanitary District 

1250 Springbrook Road 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596 

John While Former Faculty 

Each Sciences Dept 

Antioch Cottege 

Yellow Springs, OH 45387 

Reed Wicander 869 


Central Michigan University 

Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 

Richard J. Wight 876 

5763 Old Ranch Road 

Riverside, CA 92504 

Robert A. Wiley B78 

7892 Hillside Dr. 

la Mesa, CA 92041 

Barry V. Williams 876 

747 S. Camino Real 

Palm Springs, CA 92262 

Bennie D. Williams 874 

Tim Williams 872 M74 

Bob Wiltrout 

t 0596 Ke rrigan Court 

Santee, CA92071 

Tom Winn B76 

Gulf Energy and Minerals Company 

P.O. Box 1635 


Keith Wold neck B76 

10112 Workman Circle 

Vi lla Park, CA 92667 

John Woolley M7S 

1370 Emerald 


Bryan C. Worthington 

Edward P. Wosika 874 

4830 Angelus Street 

Arcata, CA 95521 

Richard Zernow B75 

C.P. 414 1 

40.000 Satvador Bah ia 

BRAZil. SOUTH AMERICA 

George Zitinsk.y 878 

3250lnnuit 


Doug Zimmerman B75 

2081 Madelain Court 

Los Alios. CA 94022

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