oakland · 2018-07-31 · sibley staging area ransit #305 fire st. #6 grizzly peak open space...
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BAY AREA RIDGE TRAILSKYLINE TRAIL
HUCKLEBERRY PATH
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Round Top Creek
San Leandro Creek
EBMUD WATERSHED.Hiking permit requiredexcept when hiking onSkyline Trail/Bay AreaRidge Trail. Call (510) 287-0459.
HUCKLEBERRYBOTANICREGIONALPRESERVE
REDWOOD REGIONAL PARK
HuckleberryStaging Area
Water Tank
Round Top1,763
Quarry Pit
Private
Property
SibleyStagingArea
AC Transit #305
Fire St. #6
GRIZZLY PEAK OPEN SPACE
SIBLEYVOLCANICREGIONALPRESERVE
DOGS MUST BE ON LEASH
from park boundary to
Sibley staging area on Skyline Bl.
TO MONTCLAIR
EBMUDEBMUD
To Walnut Creek
Quarry Pit
O A K L A N D
Separate map available.
Separate map available.
SkylineGate,RedwoodReg. Park
Old Tunnel RoadStaging Area
SibleyBack packCamp
SIBLEYVOLCANICREGIONALPRESERVE
Self-guided tourbegins here. See descriptions below.
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DOGS AND HORSES ARE NOT PERMITTED IN HUCKLEBERRY except passing through on the
Skyline National Trail.DOGS MUST BE UNDER VOICE
CONTROL AT ALL TIMES.HORSES MUST STAY
ON THE SKYLINE TRAIL.
BICYCLES ARE NOT PERMITTEDIN HUCKLEBERRY
REGIONAL BOTANIC PRESERVE.
WilcoxStationStagingArea
Best access to the staging area is from Canyon Road in Moraga, then turn right on
Pinehurst Road.
AREA IN YELLOW SUBJECT TO CLOSURESee www.ebparks.org/
sibley for status.
NO ACCESSBEYOND GATE
NO ACCESSBEYOND GATES
To Canyon Road and Moraga
FENCELINE
FENCELIN
E DOGS ARE NOT PERMITTEDIn this section of parkland.
6 parking spots
7 parking spots
38 parking spots
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LEGEND Hikers, Horses & BicyclesHikers & HorsesSymbol denotes Skyline Trail /Bay Area Ridge TrailHikers OnlyMileage Between PointsPaved RoadParkingRestroomsVisitor CenterDrinking WaterInformation PanelBackpack CampSelf-Guided Tour StopsGate, No Vehicle Access
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Contour Interval 10 feet
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A SELF-GUIDED TOUR OF ROUND TOP VOLCANOESBy Stephen W. EdwardsFormer Director, Regional Parks Botanic Garden
This Preserve features a complex volcanic center that was the source, 10 million years ago, of most of the lavas that underlie the ridges from Inspiration Point in Tilden Regional Park to Moraga. Round Top stands out today because it was originally surround-ed by sedimentary rocks of the Orinda Formation, which have eroded away. Over the years, folding and erosion have exposed a cross section of a volcano.
Lava from the vent has been dated as old as 10.2 million years. Round Top’s basaltic dikes (feeders of the vents), tuff-breccias (ash containing a jumble of blocks and chunks of lava), lava flows, red-baked cinder piles, air-fall tuffs, and the major vent itself can all be seen in an easy hike. The numbered descript-ions below correspond to stops along the trail.
Walk up the paved road to the EBMUD water tank to see a dark basalt dike, a feeder of lava to the crater, that cuts through a sequence of tuff-breccias (grayish brown) and pebbly mudstones (light gray), inside and near the crater bottom. This pit was made by quarry operations in which massive basalt lava was removed. The pit exposes the interior of the Round Top volcano. You are stand-ing on bedded tuff-breccias, which filled much of the crater, settling at times into a small lake. The steep wall across the pit consists of lava that capped the crater after it was filled. Eventually the Round Top vent buried itself in basalt flows.
This roadcut exposes Orinda Formation river gravels, sands, and mudstones. The red (when moist) streaks and layers in these river beds were
caused by oxidation of iron in the sediments. Such varicolored “redbeds” sometimes contain fossils of plants and animals. Elsewhere in the Preserve, bands of more intense red are found at the tops and bottoms of lava flows, where iron was oxidized and reddened by baking and steam action; these bands are called “bake zones.”
Before you is a wall with basalt on the left and Orinda mudstones on the right. The bedding in the mud-stones gives the appearance of drag-folding resulting from relative uplift of the lava occurring during the past 10 million years. Alternatively, the disruption of the mudstones may have occurred earlier, at the time of volcanic activity. This site was close to, or was in, the wall of the volcano, and would have been subject to slumping, sliding, and plowing.Continued on reverse
Year opened: 1936 Acres: 928Highlights: Hiking, biking, horseback riding, self-guided interpretive tour, backpack camp, panoramic views.Did you know? This parkland was opened as Round Top in 1936 with the formation of the Park District. It was renamed in 1972 to honor Robert W. Sibley, a Park District founder and director.
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