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WOVOdat is a database of volcanic unrest; instrumentally and visually recorded changes in seismicity, ground deformation, gas emission, and other parameters from their normal baselines. Along this trail pay special attention as to how the appearance and composition of the soil changes as you walk along the trail from the dam to the quarry Stop H. Geoscientists look at soils for a variety of reasons.
Soils can tell us much about the bedrock geology and climate history of an area. Also, in many areas there is little or no exposed bedrock to easily examine. The three different kinds of bedrock described in Local Geology above produce different kinds of soil.
Based on what you observe in the soil, what rock formations probably exists in the bedrock along this lower and upper sections of trail between the dam the quarry Stop H? Stop K is located on the peak of Cerro de la Calavera above the quarry on the left. At this stop you have arrived at the center of the rock quarry in the Calavera Hills volcano. Around you can see the gray rock walls of rocks that has an abundance of vertical cracks resulting in columnar jointing.
Columnar joints form in pools of cooling lava as the shrinks in volume at the lava solidifies. Stresses in a relatively homogeneous body of cooling lava result in a hexagonal or polygonal pattern of cracks similar to cracks that form in drying mud puddles. The volcano is an eroded remnant of an original volcanic cone. The quarry mined they harder rock of the stock of the volcano the passage that molten material flowed to the surface beneath crater of a volcano. The actual age of the volcano is disputed, but estimates suggest that the relative age is late Tertiary Period or Neogene Period.
The absolute age of the Calaveras Hills volcano is somewhat disputed. The volcano probably formed in the time frame of other volcanic features in the region including the Scripps Dike or Dike Rock in La Jolla that has been absolute age dated to being Volcanic rocks of middle Miocene age are known from seafloor sample collected San Diego Trough region offshore. Near Temecula, California about 25 miles to the northeast , volcanic rock know as the Santa Rosa Basalt has been dated to an age of about 8.
The volcanic stock , tephra cone , and lava flows rest unconformably on an ancient erosional surface that predates the volcano. This ancient surface is still visible as the erosionally dissected plateau that exists throughout the region in eastern San Diego County.
It can be easily seen throughout the vicinity of the Calavera Hills volcano see Figures 7, 11, and 18 for different views showing the upland surface of the plateau. This surface probably correlates to the Perris surface that underlies the Santa Rosa volcanics that erupted about 8.
Along the trail on the west side of the quarry it is easy to see an uplifted block of the Eocene-age Santiago Formation in contact with the the border of the Miocene-age dacite volcanic plug of the volcano. There is a reddish-colored zone along the boundary where heat from the volcanic material partially baked local contact metamorphism the sedimentary rocks of the Santiago Formation. The steep orientation of the sedimentary layers exposed in the cut suggest that layers were forced up as the volcano formed.
It is likely the molten material that formed the volcano had migrated to the surface along fault or fracture zone that extended deep into the crust in this region. Looking back north across the dam from this location, can you discern the possible location of a fault that may run across the valley Hint: look at the locations of Stops A, B, and C. Where might there be a fault not that not all faults are active; there may actually be no fault in this location. What alternative explanation might explain the relationship of the tonalite and Santiago Formation on the opposite side of the valley?
Dacite is a type of an extrusive igneous [volcanic] rock. These samples are nearly identical to the volcanic rock dacite exposed in the Calavera Hills volcano. Continue down the trail on the west side of the quarry.
As you walk, notice the changes in the appearance of the soil along the trail. Along the way you may see exposures of the old bedrock that display usually ring-like circles in blocks of deeply weathered blocks of the tonalite. This is a result of spheroidal weathering. It is caused by the repeated process of wetting and drying as water soaks into fractures in the granite, gradually causing the granitic bedrock to break down forming DG.
Spheroidal weathering and healed fractures in the tonalite exposed along the trail. In this location note the relationship of some of the white fractures that cross the spheroidal weathering circular lines. Based on basic geologic principles [Figure 9], which formed first? How might you interpret the geologic history of this rock relative to the formation of the volcano?
Based on the Law of Superposition , what does this boundary tell us about the age-relationships between the lava flow and the underlying tonalite? What might explain why there is no Santiago Formation exposed in this location?
The top of the peak elevation feet is the highest point in Carlsbad. San Diego County is host to a variety of volcanic rocks. The core of the Peninsular Ranges is made up of intrusive igneous crystalline rocks and volcanic rocks of Mesozoic age. These rocks are much older and different than younger intrusive and volcanic rocks exposed in several locations around western San Diego County.
This area contains 7 separate igneous bodies plugs and lava flow and tephra materials that are composed of dacite, similar to the Calavera Hills volcanic rocks.
The volcanic rock also rest unconformably on top of marine sandstone and siltstone bed of the Eocene Santiago Formation. The Santiago Formation rests unconformably on a surface of Cretaceous age crystalline intrusive igneous rocks granodiorite, a rock similar to the Green Valley Tonalite in the Calavera Hills area. The bedrock in the nearly symmetrically shaped dome consist of dacite samples shown in Figure The fine-grained character of the dacite bedrock suggest that the igneous rock cooled fairly quickly, suggesting that the dome-shaped plutons formed not far below the surface, such as within the core of a volcano similar to the one in the Calavera Hills.
Special thanks to John Turbeville and Keith Meldahl MiraCosta College for discussions and assistance in compiling information for this report.
Selected References and Resources Brown, J. Day, J. P, Mendenhall, B. Society for Sedimentary Geology. Hawkins, J. Kennedy, M. Includes several digital plates, geologic map, and a 26 page pamphlet describing geologic features. Tan, S. Walawender, M. Geologic History of San Diego County. Woski, M. Centennial Field Guide Volume 1. Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America.
Calavera Hills Volcano, Carlsbad, California.
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