Geology of the San Joaquin Valley

Learn about the geology of the San Joaquin Valley in this installment of BVM's Earth Science Video Series.
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[@CarlosRodriguez-hb3vq]

Many folks from LA and SF just try to drive through the San Joaquin Valley as fast as possible, but there’s a fascinating story beneath those fields and in those mountains.

[@robertsmith1860]

My Grandfather on my Dad’s side worked for Standard Oil & lived in McKittrick. Prior to that, he worked as a Fireman on the Steam Railroads...so he applied his experience to heating the crude oil to facilitate a proper pressure for it to flow through the many miles of pipelines towards the Refinery, and terminate at Port San Luis oil pier to load onto the Oil Tanker Ships. Meanwhile, my Dad busied himself as a kid, taming a wild donkey he found in the foothills & rode it back & forth many miles to the School House. In the 50s, my Dad would drive from our home in Azusa into the Southern San Joaquin Valley to McKittrick...my Family listening carefully to my Dad’s interesting stories of growing up in the wild beautiful Valley.

[@MrAdamNTProtester]

Two of the most essential & under appreciated studies that ALL school children should be introduced to are NUTRITION & GEOLOGY... thanks for this important work... we cannot reverse the paradigm of land & water mis-management without having a canonical knowledge & understanding of GEOLOGY! Appreciate you... Merry Christmas

[@fisheyelens876]

Here here, a man of my own ilk with pros and questions not to defunct knowledge but to ask questions about the method and delivery of known things.

[@shanehollander9135]

Pop

[@1mezrahi187]

Really enjoyed this presentation. I took notes so now I can look for this wonderful rocks as I pass along the roads here at home along Hwy 178 and 58. Thank You so much! Keep up the awesome work!👍🏻🤗

[@alejandrorubio4424]

Excellent presentation!

[@jeffgalef121]

That was great. Please keep up fantastic work.

[@energyexecs]

..Great informative video - thank you.

[@cliffcurtistruth]

The San Juaquin Valley was pushed out of the ocean as the N. American continent reached the end of the plate boundary (moving West) and is backed up against the San Andreas Fault. Thinking in unverifiable "millions of years" is ridiculous. The whole valley could return to an inland sea within 1 day - and almost unanimously among psychics, it will.

[@vogelvogeltje]

“Psychics” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@archstanton_live]

The San Juaquin Valley evolved in the later stages of the N. American plate overriding the Pacific plate (~60 million years). These *subduction faults* long proceeded the formation of the San Andreas fault which is an entirely different kind of fault *(strike-slip).* This process had been progressing for at least ~200 million years since Pangea had begun breaking up. These series of subduction faults were originally much closer to what is now the Sierra Nevada but were replaced and shifted west as N. American plate overrode the pacific plate. Some parts of eastern pacific islands accreted (stuck to the top layer and did not subside) of the progressing N American plate. This accreted terrain helped form the Pacific range (California's coastal mountains). As of roughly 10 million years ago the N. American plate no longer overrides the Pacific plate in this location and the tectonic stresses are now mostly evident as the stike-slip faults of the San Andreas and associated faults, where N. America slides north as the pacific plate slides south in this part of California. California will not slide into the sea unless the stars fall from the skies. Oh, those psychics!

[@skrame01]

Why do the sediments sink into the earth?

[@eddycoronado8381]

👍

[@michaelwoodsmccausland5633]

It a lake bed

[@charlescoker7752]

Isn't the San Joaquin valley a subduction zone?

[@NorCalMtnBiker86]

Video felt like it was made 15 years ago 🤣🤣