Point Reyes National Seashore

A Tour featuring Park Geology

Click here to start a 3-D tour of the park. Click here to see a thumbnail gallery.

Access images of selected locations by black dots on the geologic map. Click here to see a larger view of a geologic map and a modified park brochure map.

Click on images for a larger view.


Point Reyes Lighthouse	Point Reyes Lighthouse	Point Reyes Conglomerate	Point Reyes Conglomerate	Point Reyes Conglomerate

Point Reyes Headlands	Point Reyes Conglomerate	Point Reyes Headlands	Whale skull at Point Reyes	wind-shaped trees

Point Reyes beach strand	Point Reyes beach strand	Historic Point Reyes Lifeboat Station	Granite near Lifeboat Station	sea lions' gravel beach

Marine terrace deposits on Monterey Shale	Chimney Rock	Chimney Rock Overlook	Point Reyes Headlands	Point Reyes Headlands

Point Reyes Headlands	Point Reyes Headlands	Seemingly content cattle	Seemingly content cattle	Mount Vision in distance

Tomales Bay State Park	Tomales Bay State Park	Tomales Bay State Park	Abandoned ship on Tomales Bay	Great blue heron

Blue schist knockers	Tomales Bay south end	San Andreas Fault	Offset fence	Limantour Beach

Drakes Beach wave-cut bench	Drakes Beach wave-cut bench	Drakes Estero	Abbotts Lagoon	Kehoe Beach trail view

Monterey Formation	Kehoe Beach	Kehoe Beach	Kehoe Beach	Kehoe Beach

Veins of alaskite	Debris chute	Kehoe Beach	Kehoe beach outcrops	Tonalite outcrop

Tule elk	McClures Beach	McClures Beach	Olema Formation and Franciscan rocks	Duxbury Reef

Agate Beach	Slump at Palomarin Beach	Slump at Palomarin Beach	Palomarin Headlands	Tide pools at Palomarin Beach

Palomarin Beach wave-cut bench	Tide pools with Point Reyes	Gravel beach and sea cliff	Sea cliffs with talus slope	Santa Margarita Sandstone

Sea cliff with water fall	Sea cliff with water fall	Sea cave with concretion

Tide pools	Tide pools	Cobbles on back beach
Click on geology map of Point Reyes Peninsula for a larger view.

Click here to see more geology tours of National Parks.

Click here for a geologic map that also shows more detail of the location of the park.

Check out the National Park Service's Point Reyes National Seashore site - http://www.nps.gov/pore/.

National Park Service, Geologic Resources Division, 2008, Geologic Resource Evaluation Scoping Summary Point Reyes National Seashore, California, 10 p. http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/inventory/publications/s_summaries/PORE_GRE_scoping_summary_2008-0805.pdf

Selected References used for this website.

This website is an image tour of Point Reyes National Seashore. All images were taken in March, 2003. The 3D images are anaglyphs and require red and cyan 3-D viewing glasses. The image below is a pair of 3-D (anaglyph) viewing glasses.A search on the World Wide Web will yield many sites about anaglyphs and where to get 3-D glasses.

This page is <https://gotbooks.miracosta.edu/gonp/pore/>
Last modified Tue 12/16/2009