Donald E. Hallinger

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IMPORTANT NOTICE:  Last Revision 8/27/08

Exam Study Guide is up for GEOL 208

Field trips are now scheduled for ESCI 101

Urban Geology trip is on Friday 10/17 from 9:30 to 4:30  we will leave Lot C-10
Beach Trip is on Saturday Nov. 8 from 8:30 to 5:30  we will leave Lot C-10
Mountain trip is on Saturday Dec. 6 from 8:30 to 5:30  we will leave Lot C-10

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Donald Hallinger's
Fall 2008 Classes

Donald Hallinger's
Spring 2009 Classes

About Myself.

I am a practicing Geologist with over 40 years of field work, both domestic and foreign.  My work specialties are Petroleum Geology and Hydrology, although I was trained as a Paleontologist.  I have my own consulting firm, Geological Consulting Services that typically works with governments and governmental agencies for whom I perform field studies and act as an expert witness.  The e-mail address for that firm is dhallinger@sbcglobal.net.  

I received my Bachelors degree in Geology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a specialty in Paleontology.  I received my Masters degree in Geology from Indiana University with a major in Paleontology.

Once out of graduate school I began working in the Oil and Gas Industry rising to be Manager of Exploration for a company affiliated with Southern California Gas Company. In this position I became involved in both Hydrologic and Coal Mining studies as well as the Oil and Gas exploration program that was the basis of the company's efforts.  This company had operations in Canada, Indonesia, Australia, Peru, Columbia, Panama, Spain, the Dutch North Sea and various states within the United States.  As Manager of Exploration I would travel to the various operation centers we had studying the local geology.

I have served as a member and President of the State Board of Registration for Geologists and Geophysicists.  This board licenses geologists and geophysicists to practice in California.  For several decades I served on their Examination Committee, helping to write and grade the examination that determines the competency of those who wish to practice in this State.  I have also been appointed to several committees by City and Federal Officials, to study geologic events that have impacted the people of Los Angeles and California.

For a number of years I have been a freeway flyer, teaching upper division classes at UCLA and USC and class at various Community Colleges including Cerritos.

Here at Cerritos I have or am teaching ESCI 101 - Physical Ecology, ESCI 101L - Physical Ecology Lab, ESCI 110 - Introduction to Earth Science (a lecture lab combination), ENERGY 110, Geology 101, Geology 110 and Geology 201 and 207.  Click on the class designation above to go to that class's page.

My office is in the Physical Sciences Building, in Office A.  This is located at the northeast end of the building.  You can tell what hours of what days I will be on campus by looking at my schedule of classes, which is posted on the door.  For those times when I am on campus and, not teaching but have no posted office hours, I will make myself available for students by appointment.  IF THE DOOR IS OPEN, KNOCK AND COME IN!

During the summer of 2002 I began working with Dr. R Francis of the Geology Department at Cal State University at Long Beach.  We have been working together under a G-DEP program.  This is a program designed to encourage minority students to become more involved in the Earth Sciences and related fields by working with Professors on research projects during the summer.

The program for summer 2002 was a seismic reflection survey of the offshore portion of the Palos Verdes Fault Zone.  This fault, an active fault capable of a 7.3 Richter Magnitude earthquake, runs through the Los Angeles Harbor, along the north side of the Palos Verdes Hills and into Santa Monica Bay and extends to the south into Mexican waters.  It has been determined that this fault is active because it disrupts Recent sediment.  We are attempting to determine its recurrence interval, how frequently it ruptures.

This last summer, 2003, we worked on another geophysical program in East-central Nevada.  There we were trying to determine the type of faulting that existed.  Original field work by others had indicated the presence of a steeply dipping strike-slip fault, the Current Summit Strike-slip Fault.  the presence of this fault was largely based upon the offset in Paleozoic beds.  Recent mapping by Dr. Francis and others indicated that this offset was apparent only.  We used a combination of field mapping, refraction seismic, gravity, and thin section analysis in our study.  You can see the breadth of techniques that you will be exposed to.  We conclude that there is a fault in the study area, but a gently dipping (5-20 degrees) detachment fault.

The G-DEP program is on going and we will be having similar projects next summer.  I will be glad to talk with any students interested in this.  Both a Power Point Presentation and a Poster Session Presentation were prepared for the G-DEP studies.  This summer Cerritos had two students working on G-DEP studies.  The Power Point presentations from those two studies we well as the study I worked on will become available online this semester.  Also the posters prepared for a CSULB Poster Session will be displayed in the hallway of the Physical Sciences Building. 

In the Spring, 2004, I will be teaching Physical Geology and Historical Geology at CSULB.  These classes will be on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

Recent Publications

Hester, R. L. & Hallinger, D. E. editor and road log author.  Guidebook for the San Andreas fault : Cajon Pass to Wrightwood.  Pacific Section AAPG, 1984.

Hester, R. L. & Hallinger, D. E. editor and road log author.  Volume and Guidebook for the San Andreas Fault - Cajon Pass to Palmdale.  Pacific Section AAPG, 1987.

Hallinger, D. E. & Caputo M. V.  Beach profiling as a means of engaging geoscience students on coastal field trips.  Pacific Section AAPG Poster Session, 2001.

Kyster, K., Francis, R. D., & Hallinger, D. E.  Evidence for location and movement of the northern section of the Palos Verdes fault Zone.  2002

Ferry, D.W., Gwinn, K.R., Francis, R.D., Hallinger, D.E., and Grannell, R.B.  Field and Geophysical Evidence for Coalescing Detachment Faults in the White Pine Range, East-Central Nevada; An Alternative to the Currant Summit Strike-Slip Fault.  2003

Francis, R. D., Legg, M. R. & Hallinger D.E.  Segmentation in the Palos Verdes fault, San Pedro Bay, and detachment attenuation within the Inner Continental Borderland, offshore southern California.  Pacific Section AAPG Poster Session, 2003.

Francis, R.D., Walker, C.T.; Lacy, T. B.; Holk, G. J.; Hallinger, D. E.; Grannell, R. B.; Tiburcio, A.; Aron, G. L; Siegel, S. M; Benovez, H. O.:Diapirism and Detachment Attenuation in the White Pine and Horse Ranges, East-central Nevada; A New Approach to Segmentation of Mountain Ranges 2005 Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Poster Session

Holk, G. J; Genovez, H.O.; francis, R. D.; Hallinger, D. E.' Tiburcio, A.; Aron, G. L.; Grannell, R. B.; Siegel, S. M.: Stable Isotope Evidence for Mixing between Meteoric and Magmatic Waters Adjacent to a Shallow Detachment Fault in the southern White Pine Range, Nevada; 2005 Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Oral Presentation.