Homer geologist Ed Berg will present a narrative hike along the beach from the Anchor River to the Homer Spit. The illustrated talk will lead the viewers along the floor of Glacial Lake Cook to Diamond Creek, scramble up the Diamond Creek Canyon, and then survey the Bluff Point Landslide.
Along the way, the viewers will examine far-traveled glacial boulders on the beach, bacteria-generated concretions, and petrified and coalified stumps.
The Homer Spit will be the final theme, looking at evidence that the Spit is a product of longshore-current deposition during a period of rising sea level during the past 6,000–8,000 years, rather than a glacial moraine as originally proposed. The future of the Spit with accelerated rising sea level will conclude the talk.
The talk will be at 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, at the Kachemak Bay Campus. For more in formation, call 907-2992766.