Mt. Diablo/ Hayward Fault
	Jackson:  The Gold Country
	Banks Pumping Station

Mt Diablo/Hayward Fault
 

	Offset of Curb  Hayward California  Hayward  Fault  Part of San Andreas Fault System
	Offset of Curb  Hayward California  Hayward  Fault  Part of San Andreas Fault System
	Mariposa Lily  Mt. Diablo
	Chert Formation--Thinly bedded sediments from the subduction of an oceanic palte below a continental plate.  Road cut in Mt. Diablo State Park.
	Coulter Thistle--a native found in dry , high elevations.
	Penstemmon:  common at higher elevations on Mt. Diablo..
	View from the top of Mt. Diablo looking towards the Santa Clara Valley and Coast ranges.

Jackson:  The Gold Country

	Old clay mining site in Ionia--now a colorful pond surrounded by  unique chapparal vegetation--including this manzanita.
	Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant  Now decommissioned, this relic--based on the Three Mile Island model--is just south of Sacramento.
	Solar panel electrical generating station at Rancho Seco site.
	Star Thistle:  an invasive non-native found all over.
	Tuff deposits overfilling diorite layer.  Remnants of ancient volcanic eruptions in the Sierra.

Banks Pumping Plant

http://wwwdwr.water.ca.gov/dir-state_water_projectR2/State_Water_Project_R2.html#Overview
Aqueduct Doors:  the delta water is pumped through these gates into the California aqueduct.
Banks Pumping Station	Skinner Fish Facility:  Fish move with the current into the intake channel above.
Small fish are diverted from the intake channel by the series of metal louvers above and into bypasses.	Seven 20 foot concrete tanks hold the fish in 10 to 12 feet of water.
A screen is lowered into the tank to capture the fish.	Fish and alien elodea.  Fish such as Threadfin Shad and White Catfish are counted and released back into the delta.