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WEB PAGE Bud J. Benneman Page Last Update January 16, 2007 Geology Instructor Community College of Southern Nevada bajabudbillabong@gmail.com Geology 101, 101L Class Links Below
Todos Santos 55 km north of the southern tip of the Baja peninsula on the Pacific side
Bud's Baja base camp in Pascerado 50 kilometers north of Cabo San Lucas. Thesis: Horizontal fluid flow unsaturated to saturation conditions within fractured rocks. Fractures as barriers to capillary flow under unsaturated conditions and as piping during saturation. Current Research: Subsurface water flow rates in the Todos Santos Basin of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The timing and estimated lag time of monsoon subsurface discharge rates at Punta Gasperano, Baja California, Sur. Coastal Resort impacts on shallow water aquifers in Cabo San Lucas, and San Jose Del Cabo Mexico. Education: Associates in Paralegal, BS Economics, BS Geology, BS. Environmental Science, B.S Business Management, Five Summer terms Ludwig Von Misses University for Austrian Economics and Philosophy. Masters of Science Hydrology, Water Resources Management Employment: Part time Instructor Community College of Southern Nevada. General Council: Fiesta Surf Development Corporation Mexico, corporate office Orange California. Consultant: Coast Resorts Corporation Mexico, corporate office Irvine California. TEACHING SPRING 2007, COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA (CCSN) Geology 101 Lecture Section 801, 11:00-12:20am West Charleston Monday& Wednesday Geology 101 Lecture Section 802, 4:00-5:30pm West Charleston Monday & Wednesday Geology 101 Lab Section 801, West Charleston 12:30-3:30 pm Monday Geology 101 Lab Section 802, West Charleston 6:00-9:00pm Monday Geology 101 Lab Section 803, West Charleston 12:30-3:30pm Wednesday Geology 101 Lab Section 804, West Charleston 6:00-9:00pm Wednesday Quaternary Seminar Global Warming and the Anthropocene Links for Geology 101 Bud J. Benneman. Lecture Sections 801& 802. Lab Sections 801,802,803, & 804, Lecture Notes, Homework, Test Reviews, and Syllabus. Ch 6-7 Weathering and Sedimentary Rocks Wk 5-6 Ch 18 Glaciations and Climate Change Wk 11 Ch 19 Arid Environments, Basin and Range western United States Wk 15 Links Baja California Mexico and class homework INEGI Instituito Nacionakl de Estadica Geografe Informat. Mexico Government Geographical information page. Satellite photos, DEM's, Maps of geology, vegetation, precipitation. Good satellite photographs. Also complete demographic static's on income, population, tourism industry. Lots of publications. Some cool free stuff and some really cool stuff that will cost you $. (5 to 30 meter resolution). 2. http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na0526_ful.html Maps and remote sensing for major mountain ranges in Baja California including the Sierra De Laguna, Sierra De San Francisco. High resolution photographs satellite, and air photography. (30 meter resolution). 3. http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latestfault.htm United States Geological Survey (USGS). Latest Earthquakes to hit the western United States with magnitudes and major faults shown on a map. Map is printable and my be saved as a file. 3. Agricultural fields north and up-basin of Todos Santos utilizes ground water flowing from the Sierra De Laguna Mountains in the background. Increased ground water withdraw may have negative impacts on the Todos Santos Spring ( Bud J. Benneman, 2002). Lower photograph shows Cretaceous granite rocks of the southern most point of the peninsula.
Very southern tip of the Baja Peninsula taken from an ultra-light plane (Bud J. Benneman, 2001). |
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