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Richard Heermance


Live Oak 1202

18111 Nordhoff Street

Northridge, CA 91330-8346

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Fall Field Frolic

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Date Name/Location
Nov 2023 From the Paleozoic to the Present in the El Paso Mts, northern Mojave Desert, CA
Nov 2022 From C-to-Z and back again - Geologic Tour of the Mojave National Preserve and other areas of Geologic Interest
Aug 2021 A Frolic of Ice and Fire - Sierra Nevadas
2020 No FFF - COVID
Aug 2019 Geology Fun and Games, Santa Monica Mountains
Aug 2018 Lake Tahoe to Berlin (Nevada)
Aug 2017 Great American Total Solar Eclipse and more!
Aug 2016 White-Inyo Mountains
Aug 2015 An 80 million-year history of faulting in the northern Peninsular Range
Aug 2014 Santa Rosa Island
Aug 2013 Exhuming the San Bernardino Mountains (and Sugarloaf hike)
FFF 2012 Mother Lode to Walker Lane
SFF 2011 Iceland Spring Fling
FFF 2011 Zion, Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Grand Canyon
FFF 2010 Ductile shear zones of the Sierra Nevada
FFF 2009 Ophiolites, volcanoes, turbidites, and active tectonics of the western Transverse Ranges/southern Coast Ranges
SFF 2009 Zion and Bryce
Aug 2008 Northern Mojave / Owens Valley / Long Valley Regions
FFF 2007 Accreted Terranes of the Klamath Mountains, S. Oregon and N. California
FFF 2006 The Colorado Plateau: To the Stable Craton and Back!!!
FFF 2005 The San Bernardino Mountains
FFF 2004 A Transect of the Western Sierran Slope
Jan 2003 Italy: Volcanoes and Vino
Aug 2003 Your Fearless Leaders: Doug Yule, George Dunne, and Gene Fritsche
SFF 2002 Death Valley and the Mojave Desert
Aug 2002 Stratigraphic Clues to the Tectonic Origin of the Southern Coast Ranges
SFF 2000 Kartchner Caverns and Mission Copper Mine
SFF 1999 Zzyzx - 40th Anniversary Alumni Reunion
FFF 1999 Owens Valley
May 1998 Owens Valley to the Panamints, Land of Illusion
FFF 1995 Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Cedar Breaks
Jan 1994 The Eastern Transverse Ranges - San Andreas Fault - Salton Trough - Santa Rose Mylonite Zone - Peninsular Ranges Terrain
Jan 1993 Death Valley and The Panamints, Lands of Illusion
Jan 1992 Big Baja Bash
SFF 1991 Geology of the Eastern Mojave Desert
FFF 1990 Follow the Forty-Niners to the Mother Lode
FFF 1989 The Isabella Pluton
FFF 1988 Santa Cruz Island 
1988 Baja Field Trip Guide
Jan 1987 A Study of Recurrence Intervals, Slip Rates and Geomorphic Features 
Aug 1987 Point Conception and Western Santa Ynez Mountains
SFF 1986 Los Angeles Basin, California
Jan 1985 A Field Guide to the Salton Sea area, Southern California 
Feb 1984 A Field Guide to Myrmekite
Sept 1984 A Field Guide to the North-Central Ventura Basin
FFF 1983 A Field Guide to Eastern California
Dec 1977 Mineralogy of the Champion Mine, White Mountains, California 
Apr 1974 Hawaiian Field Trip
  Overview of the Potential Nuclear Waste Disposal Site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
  Santa Catalina Island 
  Prolicing Places

 

Need Advisement?

Students with general queries regarding the Geological Sciences advising & resources can visit the Department of Geological Sciences at Live Oak 1202 or call (818) 677-3541.

Learn More About Advising

Department Chair

Richard Heermance


Live Oak 1202

18111 Nordhoff Street

Northridge, CA 91330-8346

Phone: (818) 677-3541

Send email

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