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A scorpion at Warm Springs, Death Valley. Spring 2000
Around the campfire, Boulder Mountain, Utah. Spring 2000
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Geology Field Experience (Geology 496) culminates with a 10-day field trip. In 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008, the focus of the course (and the destination of the trip) was the Basin and Range and the Colorado Plateau of northern Arizona, southern California, southern Nevada, and Utah. Other years, the course focused on Costa Rica.
| 2010 Syllabus | Inlcudes a description of the course, a tentative schedule, grading policies, etc. for Spring 2010. |
Some aspects of Geology 496 are available to enrolled students through UTC's online course delivery system, Blackboard (requires UTCID and password).
Photos of the Spring 2008 trip
Photos of the Spring 2006 trip
Photos of the Spring 2004 trip
Photos from 2002 and earlier trips (below)
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Nighttime geology along I-40. A several-minute exposure of the outcrop across from Cholla Lake County Park, Joseph City, AZ. Illumination of the outcrop is from a nearby power plant. Note the star tracks and the band of light in the foreground from vehicles on the interstate. Spring 2002 |
| The 2002 group at Warm Springs, southern Death Valley. |  |
A group photo at Badwater, Death Valley, California. (Photo by S. Howell.)
Spring 2000
The group studies Ubehebe, a large phreatic explosion crater in northern Death Valley. This partial panorama is a mosic of 10 photographs.
Spring 2000
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Habte Churnet points out the cross bedding in the Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest, Arizona. Spring 2000 |
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Habte Churnet and I stand on the rim of SP crater, San Francisco volcanic field, north of Flagstaff, Arizona. SP cinder cone is a 71,000-year-old volcano. The basaltic cone is approximately 800 feet high; the crater is 400 feet deep. Spring 2000 |
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Students study layers of tuff in the footwall of a normal fault near Shoshone, California. The dark layer in the upper-left corner of the photo is a remarkable black vitrophyre (glass) that grades upward and downward into progressively less welded tuff. Spring '98 |
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Students on the dunes near Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley, California. Spring '94 |
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Part of the group on top of SP Mountain (crater rim). Note the basaltic lava flow in the background. Spring '94 |
A group photo (a motly bunch) at Badwater, Death Valley, California, 282 feet below sea level. This is the lowest point in the western hemisphere.
Spring '94
Schematic cross section of the western Colorado Plateau in Arizona and Utah, from Meteor Crater to the Henry Mountains, through the Grand Canyon. Click here for a full-size version of this graphic (6944x1308, 110k gif file).
