fieldschool 2004
in the summer of 2004 the geology department ran our annual fieldschool in the southwest usa. for two weeks eight 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛
and two faculty visited a series of variety geological sites, including the grand canyon, gold mines of the carlin trend, the world's oldest open-pit copper porphyry mine, death valley and arches national park. the following images are some of the highlights of the trip.
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the team standing at the bottom of
death valley with temperatures of 118°f
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examining the evaporite deposits of the
bonneville salt flats
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investigating the sedimentary units on
the rim of the canyon de chelly
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dead horse point where 'thelma and
louise' made their famous jump
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looking down into a smoke filled grand
canyon from the top of the bright angel trail
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recovering from hiking the grand canyon
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enjoying the scenery from a granite
dome near ward charcoal ovens
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the entrance to lava river cave, a
1 mile long lava tube
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enjoying the view from the rim
of meteor crater
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an upwelling diapir of salt has buckled the overlying rocks to create an anticlinal fold |
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hiking through the deserts in arches
national park
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unusual 'flow" textures in one of the
dykes associated with shiprock, the
remains of an ancient volcano
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examining the geology of the hall
molybdenum mine
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cross bedding in gypsum sand dunes |
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sand dunes in death valley
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making notes on the top of sp crater,
a scoria cone
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a small aa flow that escaped from
the bottom of sp crater
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looking down into the pit of the bingham canyon copper porphyry mine