Free lecture with Keith Heyer Meldahl.

Thursday, November 12, 7:00 p.m.

Legion Wing, Veterans Memorial Hall.

1745 Mission Dr, Solvang, CA 93463.

Join us for a free evening lecture and book signing with Keith Heyer Meldahl, author of Surf, Sand, and Stone, and the 2011 Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains.

In his latest book, Surf, Sand, and Stone, Keith Heyer Meldahl tells the scientific story of the Southern California coast: its mountains, islands, beaches, bluffs, surfing waves, earthquakes, and related phenomena. It takes readers from San Diego to Santa Barbara, revealing the evidence for how the coast’s features came to be and how they are continually changing. Over geologic time, as Meldahl will reveal in his lecture, beaches come and go, coastal bluffs retreat, and the sea rises and falls. Nothing about Southern California’s coast is stable. Meldahl will give the audience an idea of how the coast will be altered in the future and how we can best prepare for it.

Keith Meldahl is Professor of Geology and Oceanography at Mira Costa College and the author of two previous books, Hard Road West (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Rough-Hewn Land (University of California Press, 2011). In his spare time, he plays guitar in a classic rock band, and enjoys hiking and exploring throughout California and the western U.S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos:  John Evarts