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Geology of the Great Southern Basin, NV-CASpring Field Course, March 2009Instructors:Dr. Mary Beth Gray, Dr. Carl Kirby, Dr. Kaustubh Patwardhan
Students: Amy Jewett, Anne Strader, Cara Porteus, Cullen Kortyna, Erin Donaghy,, Emily Bitely, Eva Lipiec, Ed Bauer, Eric Lynch, Jeremy Byler, Kait Fleming, Kristi Grandy, Lauren Hall, Lily Pfeifer
Enthusiast: Wesley Sigl
Pre-trip preparation at Bucknell:Viewing 3-D images of Death Valley
Loading the limo: 6 AM at Bucknell
All bright-eyed..for a few minutes anyway.
Passing time at the Newark airport
Grand Canyon
Lake Mead
The Las Vegas Strip
Angular Unconformity at Furnace Creek
Dantes View
Looking Northwest from Dantes Viewbajada
Badwater Alluvial FanSalt deposits
Salt deposits at Badwater
A doubting geologist testing for halite
Dr. Gray explaining desert pavement
282 ft below sea level
Sea level sign
Old Lake Manly Shoreline depositFuneral Mountains
Artists Drive Funeral Mountains
Looking for the dip in the road
Exploring a trench in an alluvial fan
Dr. Gray describes the development of a fanhead trench
Finding slickenlines in the alluvial fan
Corkscrew Mountain
The 27-mile one-way gravel road to Titus Canyon
A stop at Red Pass along the way
Still on the road to Titus Canyon
Leadfield mine workings
Finally there!
Taking care of Eric
Not a fold!
Figuring out that therocks are overturned
Petroglyphs at Klare Spring
Petroglyphs at Klare Spring
Unconformity?
No, its an overturned anticline.
see?
Dr. Gray describes the faulting in the Bonanza King Formation
Mystery breccia near themouth of Titus Canyon
Mystery breccia near themouth of Titus Canyon
still a mystery
kangaroo rat 1/10 life size!
provisioning at Beatty, Nevada
Lathrop Wells cinder cone - mined for scoria
Crater Flats cinder cones
Climbing Black Cone
Taking in the view at the summit of Black Cone
Dr. Patwardhan shows the group a volcanic bomb
Pyroclastic Eruption!
lava flowYucca Mountain
Cinder cones in front of Yucca MountainRed ConeBlack ConeLittle Cones
lunchtime rest
going down Split Cone in Death Valley
Shoshone roadcut: tuff and obsidian and faults, oh my!
Dissected alluvial fan coming from the Panamint Mountains
6,000 year-old Ubehebe Crater
warning signs
oops..
Rapid descent into Ubehebe Crater
A slower ascent out of Ubehebe Crater
Eric explains the igneous rock composition/texture diagram
On the road to The Racetrack
The Racetrackgranitegraniteplaya lakegranite
The Racetrack
The Racetrack
When youre at the Racetrack
you might as well race!(rock win)(geo student fail)
There are always members of the press at sporting events!
Holy polygons, Batman!
1.5 ft long Chuckwalla at The Racetrack
Mosaic Canyon
Mosaic Canyon
Roadblock in Mosaic Canyon
Stovepipe Wells
Stovepipe Wells Dune field
Thirsty geologist
Nevada Test Site
Helicopter at the Nevada Test Site
Moving target!
The end to another great Bucknell Geology Spring Break Trip!