Ecological Reserves
3521 14 Mile House Road
Forest Ranch, CA 95942
530-898-5010
530-342-1371

Mailing Address
Ecological Reserves - Chico State Enterprises
25 Main St. Suite 203
Chico, CA 95928-5388

Geology Research

The BCCER is a geologically diverse Cascade range foothill canyonland. The major rock formations are the fossil-bearing Chico Formation, the Volcanic Lovejoy Basalt, and the Tuscan Formation, an ancient lahar. See our Geology page for more information.

Adams, Chloe, 2015: Slope Stability Analysis of a Small Intermittent Failure (PDF) (PDF)

Gonzalez, Marisol, 2014: Stratal Geometries of Tuscan Deposits in Big Chico Creek Canyon Outcrops and in the Subsurface Underlying Chico, California (PDF) (PDF)

Street, Quinn, 2009: Regional Paleo-Topographic Setting of the Lovejoy Basalt, Northern California (PDF) (PDF)

Walker, Kristoffer, 2012: Evaluating the opposing wave interaction hypothesis for the generation of microbaroms in the eastern North Pacific (PDF) (PDF)