What was Orange County like a million years ago? Find out at the next general meeting of the Orange County Historical Society when noted geologist (and OCHS member) Eldon Gath tells us “this is the way it was.”
Oct. 10th, 2019
7:30p.m.
Trinity Episcopal Church, 2400 N. Canal St., in Orange.
Learn how the place that’s now Orange County rose from the ocean, grew, changed, returned under the sea, and then rose again – becoming (sometimes gradually, sometimes violently) the place we now know, with all its familiar landmarks. Until Gaspar de Portola came along, there was no one to write down what was happening here. But the rocks kept a detailed record of all that went before. Eldon Gath will unlock that story and share it with us.
Gath is the president of Earth Consultants International, a geological consulting firm he co-founded in 1997, following twelve years with Leighton Consulting in Southern California. He has considerable international experience including field projects in such far-flung locales as Turkey, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea and Los Angeles.
Eldon has received several research grants from the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Hazard Research Program, the Southern California Earthquake Center, and the National Science Foundation for earthquake geology research in California, including paleoseismology of the Whittier fault, tectonic development of the San Joaquin Hills, tectonic geomorphology of the Eastern Los Angeles Basin, and the seismic hazards of the Santa Ana Mountains.