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Antonio F. Garcia, Associate Professor of Geology in the 

Cal Poly SLO Physics Department

Leaving home for Summer 2009 field work. / Salida de casa para comenzar una etapa de 

trabajo de campo geologico , verano 2009.



Summer 2005: Mica the incredible strath hound identifies her quarry in Pancho Rico Valley, 
California Coast Ranges (Monterey County). / Verano 2005: Mica en busca de terrazas fluviales 
en el Valle Pancho Rico.


Personal information:

 

First generation Cuban-American, born in Miami, Florida, on 11 December 1965.

 

Fluent in English and Spanish since childhood.

 

Education:

 

                2001:  PhD in Geological Sciences, The University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

                1996:  MS in Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of New Mexico.

 

      1994:  BS in Geology (Magna Cum Laude), San Jose State University. 

 

    1988:  BA in Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles.


Publications:

 

García, A. F., and Mahan, S. A., 2009. Sediment storage and transport in Pancho Rico Valley during and after the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, Coast Ranges of central California (Monterey County). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 34, p. 1136-1150. (Please scroll to page bottom for link to <.pdf> file)

 

Stokes, M., and García, A. F., 2008. Late Quaternary sedimentation and erosion patterns along the Rancho Marino coastal range front, Cambria, central-southern Pacific Coast Ranges, California, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science v. 24, p. 728-746. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1243. (Please scroll to page bottom for link to <.pdf> file).

 

García, A. F., 2006. Thresholds of strath genesis deduced from landscape response to stream piracy by Pancho Rico Creek in the Coast Ranges of central California. American Journal of Science, v. 306, p.655-681. (Please scroll to page bottom for link to <.pdf> file).

 

García, A. F., and Stokes, M., 2006. Late Pleistocene highstand and recession of a small, high altitude pluvial lake, Jakes Valley, central Great Basin, USA. Quaternary Research, v. 65, p. 179-186.(Please scroll to page bottom for link to <.pdf> file).

 

García, A. F., Zhu, Z., Ku, T.L., Chadwick, O.A., and Chacón Montero, J., 2004. An incision wave in the geologic record, Alpujarran Corridor, southern Spain (Almería). Geomorphology, v. 60, p. 37-72.

 

García, A. F., Zhu, Z., Ku, T.L., Sanz de Galdeano, C., Chadwick, O.A., and Chacón Montero, J., 2003. Tectonically driven landscape development within the eastern Alpujarran Corridor, Betic Cordillera, SE Spain (Almería). Geomorphology, v. 50, p. 83-110.

 

García, A. F., 2001, Quaternary stream incision and topographic development in the eastern Alpujarran Corridor, Betic Cordillera, southern Spain (Almería) [Ph.D. thesis]: Santa Barbara, The University of California, 214 p.

 

Pazzaglia, F.J., García, A. F., Pederson, J.L. and Toya, C., 1998, Geology of the Jemez Pueblo 7.5' quadrangle, Sandoval County, New Mexico, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-file Geologic Map OF-GM 14, scale 1:24,000.

 

García, A. F., 1996. Active tectonic deformation and late Pleistocene and Holocene geomorphic and soil profile evolution in the Dosewallips River drainage basin, Olympic Mtns., western Washington State.  MS thesis, University of New Mexico.

 

García, A. F., 1995.  Development of corrugations on off-road motorcycle trails, San Benito County, California.  California Geology, May/June, v. 48, no. 3, p. 72-78.




2006 Geomorphology Class on a Tahoe Moraine, Mono Basin (A.F. Garcia shown with rabbit ears). /

Clase de Geomorfologia 2006 en la cima de un moraine glacial, Lago Mono, California  

(A. F. Garcia senyalado con orejas de conejo).



Geology field methods (GEOL 401) at the Mud Hills, Winter 2009. / Clase de metodos geologico de campo , lomas de fango, Desierto Mojave, invierno 2009



Courses I teach:

GEOL 102, Introduction to Geology

GEOL 201, Physical Geology

GEOL 203, Fossils and the History of Life

GEOL 241, Physical Geology Lab

SS/ERSC 323, Geomorphology

GEOL 401, Field-Geology Methods

GEOL 402, Geologic Mapping


Jill and the kids on Cerro Alto, Santa Lucia Range, Coast Ranges of SLO county. / Jill y las chicas en el cumbre de Cerro Alto, Sierra Santa Lucia, Coast Ranges de California, en el condado de San Luis Obispo


Mica's greeting at the end of the Copperopolis race, Spring 2007. She is dreaming she could 
run with me in a bike race. Mica saludandome al final de la carrera de bicicleta en Copperopolis, California, primavera 2007. Mica suenya correr a mi lado durante una competencia de ciclismo. 

Contact information:

Antonio F. García
Physics Department
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

afgarcia@calpoly.edu

(805)756-2430 office

(805)756-2435 FAX


to return to the Cal Poly Physics Department web page please cut and paste this address into your browser:

http://www.calpoly.edu/%7Ephys/


 




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