Fieldschool 2004
In the summer of 2004 the Geology Department ran our annual fieldschool in the southwest USA. For two weeks eight students 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