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Crissy Field's 100 acres of wild, windswept shoreline are a favorite place for walkers, joggers, boardsailors, bicyclists, thousands of birds and the occasional seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally a rich salt marsh and gathering ground for native people, Crissy Field was later the landing site of Spanish explorers and Russian, English and Boston traders. In 1915, the Panama Pacific International Exposition was held here, and shortly after, the area became one of the country’s foremost military airfields and part of a U.S. army post. With generous community support, Crissy Field has been transformed into a spectacular national parkland. The 100-acre site is included within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Presidio of San Francisco. Along with the entire Presidio, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the site restoration effort in 1998-2000, individuals and groups from schools, corporations and civic organizations put in more than 100,000 native plants to help restore natural systems at Crissy Field. Community volunteers continue to play an important role in sustaining long-term stewardship of this national parkland.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Location\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>603 Mason Street, Presidio\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco, CA 94129\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.parksconservancy.org/visit/trip-planner.html?to=Crissy+Field+Center:294776522\">Driving Directions\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.parksconservancy.org/map/#/programs/crissy-field-center/?coords=14:37.8061:-122.4494&date=1450230964731\">[Map]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Center Hours of Operation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Monday through Sunday\u003cbr>\n9 AM - 5 PM\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Administrative Phones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>General Office (415) 561-7690\u003cbr>\nFax (415) 561-7695\u003cbr>\nBookstore (415) 561-7761\u003cbr>\nCafé (415) 561-7756\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to Charity Maybury and Kristen Ward at \u003ca href=\"http://www.parksconservancy.org/programs/crissy-field-center/\">The Crissy Field Center\u003c/a> for their participation in this Exploration.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Crissy Field: Changing Landscapes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"DSC_0049.JPG by kqedquest, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1895513447/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2251/1895513447_bfe24bce41_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0049.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a> With a view of the Golden Gate bridge, Crissy Field is a fine example of preserving nature in an urban environment. Along the northern edge of the San Francisco peninsula is a 100-acre park with a storied past. Crissy Field is a recently restored section of the Presidio in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It stretches from the foot of the Golden Gate bridge to the city’s Marina District, granting public beach access along much of the bay inlet known as the Golden Gate and providing walking trails along which visitors can admire native plants, watch for birds, or just sit and marvel at the view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crissy Field hasn't always looked like this. Change is a constant here. Along the beach, waves continually deposit sand and wash away footprints. Return a week after your last visit and the tides will have shifted the sandbar’s shape and carved new curves into the dunes. Even larger changes take place over longer periods of time, making this recently re-created urban shoreline an illustration of how dynamic living systems can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca title=\"Picture 145.jpg by kqedquest, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1895374818/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/1895374818_eba39ac3d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"Picture 145.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span> The abundance of plant life and waterfowl belie Crissy Field's previous life as a military post and airfield. Humans and nature both contribute to the shifts in Crissy Field's landscape and environment. An oil spill in November 2007 may be one of the most recent human-caused events to affect the area, but it certainly isn’t the largest or most damaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crissy Field has had many previous incarnations. Before it became a Spanish military post in 1776, the native Ohlone people took advantage of the area’s abundance of plant and animal life. In 1848, the site became a U.S. military post, and an airfield was added in 1921. During the Vietnam war, this airfield was a landing spot for wounded soldiers being transported from Travis Air Force Base northeast of San Francisco to Letterman Hospital. The airfield closed to fixed-wing aircraft in 1974, but continued as a U.S. Army post until the National Park Service assumed management in 1994. Three years later, planners began to recreate Crissy Field back to its pre-military state. By the time the new park was completed in 2000, over 3000 volunteers had planted 100,000 native plants in the dunes, where they’ve flourished. Nowadays a visitor would be hard pressed to imagine the area under blacktop, surrounded by airline hangars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the park claims 130 documented species of birds and 105 species of plants. The original salt marsh, which drew Native Americans here before the area was developed, has been restored, along with a small plot of freshwater habitat called dune swale. With its tall grasses and occasional cattails, dune swale was once a very common environment in the area now occupied by San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca title=\"Fence Line by kqedquest, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1894281361/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2068/1894281361_3769455ea2_m.jpg\" alt=\"Fence Line\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span> Fences around Crissy Field's beach dunes often need to be rebuilt as wind, waves, and human interactions reshape the sands. Observing Crissy Field as a protected area now, its Park Ranger caretakers can point out how nature exerts its own dramatic changes here. Some animal populations come and go as the seasons change. Wind and waves are forever rearranging the shoreline, shifting the sands and shaping the plant communities. Occasionally, the surf deposits enough sand on the shore to close off the inlet to the park’s salt marsh, which rangers then have to dredge to reopen. Near the beach, wind and water (and the occasional canine friend of humans) combine to reshape the dunes, leaving them in need of ever-new fences to protect them from these elements. At Crissy Field, park planners and rangers must strike a delicate balance between preservation and recreation. Human efforts have both assaulted this shoreline and helped it recover. Nature has its hand in healing as well, the terrain’s capacity for change lending it resilience. 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Even larger changes take place over longer periods of time, making this recently re-created urban shoreline an illustration of how dynamic living systems can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca title=\"Picture 145.jpg by kqedquest, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1895374818/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/1895374818_eba39ac3d8_m.jpg\" alt=\"Picture 145.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span> The abundance of plant life and waterfowl belie Crissy Field's previous life as a military post and airfield. Humans and nature both contribute to the shifts in Crissy Field's landscape and environment. An oil spill in November 2007 may be one of the most recent human-caused events to affect the area, but it certainly isn’t the largest or most damaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crissy Field has had many previous incarnations. 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Wind and waves are forever rearranging the shoreline, shifting the sands and shaping the plant communities. Occasionally, the surf deposits enough sand on the shore to close off the inlet to the park’s salt marsh, which rangers then have to dredge to reopen. Near the beach, wind and water (and the occasional canine friend of humans) combine to reshape the dunes, leaving them in need of ever-new fences to protect them from these elements. At Crissy Field, park planners and rangers must strike a delicate balance between preservation and recreation. Human efforts have both assaulted this shoreline and helped it recover. Nature has its hand in healing as well, the terrain’s capacity for change lending it resilience. 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To the east beyond Califomia's great central valley, the crest of the Sierra Nevada seems to float in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Location-Directions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The park may be accessed by vehicle from either the Danville area (Mount Diablo Scenic Boulevard) or the Walnut Creek area (North Gate Road). Highway 680 to Danville; take Diablo Road exit, then 3 miles east to Mount Diablo Scenic Blvd.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seasons/Climate/Recommended clothing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Summers are generally hot and dry. The rainy season is generally from November through mid-March. 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Visitors should plan to be in their vehicles by sunset and headed out to avoid being locked in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Visitor Center will be open 7 days a week from 10 am to 4 pm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summit Museum is open:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOpen 7 days a week 10 am to 4 pm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell Canyon Interpretive Center is open Weekends only and some holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer Hours\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>8:00am to 4:00pm\u003c/em>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter Hours\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>10:00am to 2:00pm\u003c/em>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mailing Address\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mount Diablo State Park\u003cbr>\n96 Mitchell Canyon Road\u003cbr>\nClayton, CA 94517\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional thanks go to Ken Lavin of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mdia.org\">The Mount Diablo Interpretive Association\u003c/a>, Dr. Carol Tang and Dr. Peter Roopnarine of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calacademy.org/\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>, and Judy Scotchmoor of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/\">UC Berkeley Natural History Museums\u003c/a> for their contributions to this piece. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mt. Diablo: an upside-down trek through time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1278865000/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\">\u003cimg src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1219/1278865000_d74b6db0a8_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" alt=\"11b. Untouched landscape\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>Mt. Diablo can be an intimidating place for a geologist. It's an almost inexplicable scrunch of mixed up, twisted rock layers piled on each other in what looks to be backward chronological order. Combine that with the fact that a hike on Mt. Diablo could involve encounters with rattlesnakes, tarantulas, and other unpleasant critters, and it's easy to see why many rock studiers once left this mysterious mountain to the biologists. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists visiting Mt. Diablo in the 1800s found not only abundant plant and animal life, they also discovered evidence of the region's rich biological past. Fossils lodged in rocks gave away the area's past lives as an ocean floor and a stream-filled flatland. When the science of plate tectonics-- the notion that the earth's crust is composed of many large, mobile plates whose movements cause earthquakes, mountains, and other geological phenomena-- came into acceptance in the 1970s, it brought ways to explain the presence and order of the mountain's confusing rock layers. Soon geologists and paleontologists joined the biologists, developing a picture of whats taken place in Mt. Diablo's neighborhood over the last 200 million years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looming over the landscape near Walnut Creek, Mt. Diablo is a paradox: it has some of the oldest rocks in the Bay Area, yet it's one of the region's youngest geological features, having risen at most only about 2 million years ago (by mountain standards, that makes it a real whipper-snapper). And even though it looks for all the world like a volcano, it isn't one. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ground's all turned around\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you were to clean out an old trunk that you'd been steadily tossing things into for years, you'd probably notice a pattern: the items at the bottom of the trunk would be the oldest ones, left there years before the things sitting at the top. The same is true for layers of rock... usually. Mt. Diablo is just the opposite: the oldest rock is found at the summit of the mountain, and the newest rock at the bottom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can this be? Geologists are still stumped about some aspects of the mountain's formation. What they believe is that Diablo was once a slab of ocean floor that was pushed up and folded by the forces of plates moving past each other. This folding drove the oldest tiers toward the top. If you could cut Mt. Diablo in half and look at these layers from the side, it would resemble a sandwich standing on end. The oldest rocks would be the filling, flanked by a younger layer of rock on each side, flanked again on each side by an even younger layer, and so on. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Layered stories of times past\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mt. Diablo's many rock layers offer clues to conditions in the area over the last 200 million years. A complete tour of the mountain's history would fill a hefty tome, but here are a few highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>190 – 90 million years ago: An ancient ocean floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1277970035/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\">\u003cimg src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/1277970035_95d9b09db0_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" alt=\"1b. Radiolarian chert layers\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>The park's oldest rocks, dating between 190 to 90 million years ago, make up the mountain's summit. A collection called the Franciscan Complex, they are evidence of a collision between plates on the ocean floor. In such an area, known as a subduction zone, one plate slides under another. Greenstone found on Mt. Diablo was scraped from the top of the submerging plate as it dove under its neighbor. Another Franciscan rock, chert, is made of the fossil skeletons of tiny sea creatures whose bodies formed thick layers on the ocean floor. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>50 million years ago: A prehistoric sea basin filling with sediment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1278958654/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\">\u003cimg src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1374/1278958654_700852cb89_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" alt=\"10b. Turritella Snail Bed, close up\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>Over time, plate movements in the Mt. Diablo region created a shallow basin that filled with water to make an inland sea, producing shorelines and swampy backwaters. In the warming global climate, sub-tropical plants and animals thrived. The fossils of some sea creatures are easy to find along trails in the park, preserved in rocks formed by sediments piling into the ancient sea. The bodies of others collected in the swamps as peat, which compressed over time into a low-grade coal that was mined and shipped to San Francisco in the later half of the 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>20-10 million years ago: The ground shifts, the sea recedes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1278051243/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\">\u003cimg src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/1278051243_9d7e9dab46_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" alt=\"13a. Fossil scallop on the grill\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>During this time, the movement of the plates around Mt. Diablo shifted. Rather than one diving under the other, they began to move against each other horizontally. Even today this is still the direction of movement in the region, and is what gives rise to earthquakes along the San Andreas and other nearby faults. This new direction of movement made changes to the landscape that caused the water to drain from the inland sea, leaving behind a coastal plain. Sea creatures trapped in mud at this time were destined to become fossils, and you can spot the occasional scallop or oyster from this period in the stones used to build campsite stoves in Mt. Diablo State Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7-10 million years ago: Mammals rule the flatlands\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The sea came and went once more, leaving the area dry one last time. Rivers then flowed through the sea-less basin, making it inviting for a wide variety of land mammals, large and small. Stream deposits on the land that became the mountain's south side gave rise to one of the richest fossil beds in the United States (second only to the LaBrea Tar Pits in southern California). Paleontologists working at Mt. Dialblo have unearthed fossils of horses, rhinos, camels, and even a mastodon skull, among many other finds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2 million years ago: At last, the landscape rises\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The earth that makes up Mt. Diablo began to creep upward at this time, but scientists haven't been able to determine exactly why. Two theories exist: one posits that there was a thrust fault (a fault in which one plate has moved under another, pushing the top plate up) near the surface of the earth where the mountain now stands. As the bottom plate moved under, it bent the edge of the top plate, lifting and folding it, creating the mountain. A second theory suggests that plates around the area of the mountain were moving horizontally relative to each other, and that a thrust fault far below the surface (called a blind fault) pushed the mountain up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not Mt. Diablo was formed by a blind thrust fault, many researchers believe such a fault exists under the mountain today, pushing it steadily upward. At 3,849 feet, Mt. Diablo continues to rise a few millimeters a year, and its landscape is still changing. The mountain's unique geology and the extraordinary number of fossil species found there-- 455-- draws scientists from many disciplines. Slowly they are adding pages to the story of this ever-changing place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Mount Diablo Interpretive Association\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mdia.org/events.htm#Hikes\">The Mount Diablo Interpretive Association\u003c/a> are well-regarded stewards of the park, with a dedicated volunteer corps and regular docent-led hikes. Coming up soon:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tarantula Trek\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday September 30 & Saturday October 6, 3PM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 19th century visitor to Mount Diablo described the tarantula as \"attaining the size of a small bird, possessing fangs the size of a rattlesnakes', and delivering a bite generally considered fatal\" Fact or fiction? Join us for a tarantula talk, followed by a nature hike to search for Mount Diablo's giant spiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meet at the Mitchell Canyon Visitor Center in Mount Diablo State Park for this easy hike. Back by 6 PM. $3 parking fee. Hike led by Ken Lavin. Contact: (925)686-9393 , \u003ca href=\"mailto:ken_lavin@hotmail.com\">ken_lavin@hotmail.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trek Through Time: East Bay - Greenbelt Outing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Saturday December 1 10:30am - 4pm\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Join the \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenbelt.org\">Greenbelt Alliance\u003c/a> for a walk through 150 million years of geologic history on Mount Diablo's \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenbelt.org/getinvolved/outings/outingsdirections_trektime.html\">Trail through Time\u003c/a>. We will enjoy one of the most spectacular views on earth from the summit of Mount Diablo and then hike down to Rock City. On the way, we'll see rocks deposited in many different ancient environments, view incredible fossils, and even straddle a fault. We'll car pool to return to the summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hike led by Ken Lavin. 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Visitors should plan to be in their vehicles by sunset and headed out to avoid being locked in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Visitor Center will be open 7 days a week from 10 am to 4 pm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summit Museum is open:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOpen 7 days a week 10 am to 4 pm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell Canyon Interpretive Center is open Weekends only and some holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer Hours\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>8:00am to 4:00pm\u003c/em>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter Hours\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>10:00am to 2:00pm\u003c/em>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mailing Address\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mount Diablo State Park\u003cbr>\n96 Mitchell Canyon Road\u003cbr>\nClayton, CA 94517\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional thanks go to Ken Lavin of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mdia.org\">The Mount Diablo Interpretive Association\u003c/a>, Dr. Carol Tang and Dr. Peter Roopnarine of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calacademy.org/\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a>, and Judy Scotchmoor of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/\">UC Berkeley Natural History Museums\u003c/a> for their contributions to this piece. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mt. 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Fossils lodged in rocks gave away the area's past lives as an ocean floor and a stream-filled flatland. When the science of plate tectonics-- the notion that the earth's crust is composed of many large, mobile plates whose movements cause earthquakes, mountains, and other geological phenomena-- came into acceptance in the 1970s, it brought ways to explain the presence and order of the mountain's confusing rock layers. Soon geologists and paleontologists joined the biologists, developing a picture of whats taken place in Mt. Diablo's neighborhood over the last 200 million years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looming over the landscape near Walnut Creek, Mt. Diablo is a paradox: it has some of the oldest rocks in the Bay Area, yet it's one of the region's youngest geological features, having risen at most only about 2 million years ago (by mountain standards, that makes it a real whipper-snapper). 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The oldest rocks would be the filling, flanked by a younger layer of rock on each side, flanked again on each side by an even younger layer, and so on. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Layered stories of times past\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mt. Diablo's many rock layers offer clues to conditions in the area over the last 200 million years. A complete tour of the mountain's history would fill a hefty tome, but here are a few highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>190 – 90 million years ago: An ancient ocean floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1277970035/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\">\u003cimg src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/1277970035_95d9b09db0_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" alt=\"1b. Radiolarian chert layers\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>The park's oldest rocks, dating between 190 to 90 million years ago, make up the mountain's summit. A collection called the Franciscan Complex, they are evidence of a collision between plates on the ocean floor. In such an area, known as a subduction zone, one plate slides under another. Greenstone found on Mt. Diablo was scraped from the top of the submerging plate as it dove under its neighbor. Another Franciscan rock, chert, is made of the fossil skeletons of tiny sea creatures whose bodies formed thick layers on the ocean floor. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>50 million years ago: A prehistoric sea basin filling with sediment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1278958654/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\">\u003cimg src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1374/1278958654_700852cb89_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" alt=\"10b. Turritella Snail Bed, close up\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>Over time, plate movements in the Mt. Diablo region created a shallow basin that filled with water to make an inland sea, producing shorelines and swampy backwaters. In the warming global climate, sub-tropical plants and animals thrived. The fossils of some sea creatures are easy to find along trails in the park, preserved in rocks formed by sediments piling into the ancient sea. The bodies of others collected in the swamps as peat, which compressed over time into a low-grade coal that was mined and shipped to San Francisco in the later half of the 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>20-10 million years ago: The ground shifts, the sea recedes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/1278051243/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\">\u003cimg src=\"http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/1278051243_9d7e9dab46_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" alt=\"13a. Fossil scallop on the grill\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>During this time, the movement of the plates around Mt. Diablo shifted. Rather than one diving under the other, they began to move against each other horizontally. Even today this is still the direction of movement in the region, and is what gives rise to earthquakes along the San Andreas and other nearby faults. This new direction of movement made changes to the landscape that caused the water to drain from the inland sea, leaving behind a coastal plain. Sea creatures trapped in mud at this time were destined to become fossils, and you can spot the occasional scallop or oyster from this period in the stones used to build campsite stoves in Mt. Diablo State Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7-10 million years ago: Mammals rule the flatlands\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The sea came and went once more, leaving the area dry one last time. Rivers then flowed through the sea-less basin, making it inviting for a wide variety of land mammals, large and small. Stream deposits on the land that became the mountain's south side gave rise to one of the richest fossil beds in the United States (second only to the LaBrea Tar Pits in southern California). Paleontologists working at Mt. Dialblo have unearthed fossils of horses, rhinos, camels, and even a mastodon skull, among many other finds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2 million years ago: At last, the landscape rises\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The earth that makes up Mt. Diablo began to creep upward at this time, but scientists haven't been able to determine exactly why. Two theories exist: one posits that there was a thrust fault (a fault in which one plate has moved under another, pushing the top plate up) near the surface of the earth where the mountain now stands. As the bottom plate moved under, it bent the edge of the top plate, lifting and folding it, creating the mountain. A second theory suggests that plates around the area of the mountain were moving horizontally relative to each other, and that a thrust fault far below the surface (called a blind fault) pushed the mountain up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not Mt. Diablo was formed by a blind thrust fault, many researchers believe such a fault exists under the mountain today, pushing it steadily upward. At 3,849 feet, Mt. Diablo continues to rise a few millimeters a year, and its landscape is still changing. The mountain's unique geology and the extraordinary number of fossil species found there-- 455-- draws scientists from many disciplines. Slowly they are adding pages to the story of this ever-changing place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Mount Diablo Interpretive Association\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mdia.org/events.htm#Hikes\">The Mount Diablo Interpretive Association\u003c/a> are well-regarded stewards of the park, with a dedicated volunteer corps and regular docent-led hikes. Coming up soon:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tarantula Trek\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunday September 30 & Saturday October 6, 3PM\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 19th century visitor to Mount Diablo described the tarantula as \"attaining the size of a small bird, possessing fangs the size of a rattlesnakes', and delivering a bite generally considered fatal\" Fact or fiction? Join us for a tarantula talk, followed by a nature hike to search for Mount Diablo's giant spiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meet at the Mitchell Canyon Visitor Center in Mount Diablo State Park for this easy hike. Back by 6 PM. $3 parking fee. Hike led by Ken Lavin. 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