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