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2000 Geology Club: Notch Peak, Delta, Ut
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Searching through the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale, we found Asaphiscus wheeleri (trilobites) samples. | |||
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2001 Geology Club: Fossil Butte National Monument, Kemmer, Wyoming
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Digging through the Green River Formation Quarry we found some incredible fossilized Knightia, that once lived in this Eocene river. Unfortunately, we found more coprolites than anything else. | |||
| July 2001 Personal Trip: White Sands and Carlsbad Caverns, NM
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White Sands, found at
northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert, is
the world's largest pure gypsum dune field. The Carlsbad Caverns (limestone), nestled near the Guadalupe Mountains, preserves a portion of the Capitan Reef—one of the best-preserved, exposed Permian-age fossil reefs in the world. |
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| August 2001 Field Studies (Geo 210): Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana
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Here, we were inspecting the various minerals in this talus slope. This trip covered an amazing amount of ash flow tuffs (Yellowstone) and metamorphic rocks ( Idaho Mountains). | |||
| August 2001 Field Studies (Geo 210): Southern Utah
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Traveling through the Grand Staircase, we interrogated possible depositional environments from incredible sedimentary structures (Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Capital Reef). While in Capital Reef, we | |||
| March 2002
Petrology (Geo 352): Black Rock Desert, Central Utah
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Approximately 2.5 million years ago (late Tertiary Period), volcanic eruptions in the Black Spring area of the Black Rock Desert in western Utah spewed out the volcanic rocks Basalt, rhyolite, pumice, and obsidian. Here is a close look into a lava tube. | |||
| April 2002
Geology Club: Goblin Valley, Ut
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An example of the soft sediment deformation we saw on our hike through the slot canyon near goblin valley. | |||
| September 2004 Geophysics Survey: Pilot Valley, Ut
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Gathering refraction data. I ran the weight drop and set up the geophones. Later, I even got to see the data and some of the interpretations. | |||
| January 2004
Structure (Geo 375): Slate Canyon, Provo, Ut |
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Up Slate Canyon we took measurements of strain on reduction spots found on the Mississippian shale. | |||
| February 2005 Work: Kodachrome Basin State Park, Kane County, Ut
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My first experience collecting my own samples and working in the field. We are studying some sandstone pipes that may carry evidence of natural gas flow, forming the vertical relief structures. For more information link to Work. | |||
| March 2004 Oil field trip: Halliburton Vernal, UT |
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The smell of money. | |||
| March 2004 Geochemistry (Geo 445): Death Valley, CA |
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Tufa, Tufa, Tufa...conductivity measurements, pH meters, lots of evaporates, and the infamous yucca mountain. | |||
| March 2004 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (Geo 370): Eastern Utah, Spanish Fork to Green River and around the San Rafael Swell. |
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Studying the book cliffs and other
stratigraphy...this trip was dedicated to understanding how
to follow a sequence formed by a depositional environment
(example: Tertiary delta) through the change in stratigraphy.
Also, we looked at how coal seams where created in a back
shore beach environment.
Of course...we address the inquiry, did the San Rafael Swell trap oil? Many of our observations say, "YES!". |
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| April 2005 Mega Fieldtrip: Carbonate Factory of the Florida Keys and Andros Island of the Bahamas |
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Nothing like seeing in action how the
carbonate rocks form. We saw the rare yet vast ooid shores. |
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| May-June 2005 Field Camp (410): Pilot Valley, Cedar City and Vernal, Utah
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Traveling all over Utah in the name of mapping. Pilot Valley, hydrology; Cedar City, igneous and economic mapping as well as structural mapping; Vernal, graphic columns and final individual mapping. | |||
| July-August 2005 Work: Timor-Leste
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Surveying uplifted reef terraces and gathering samples for Th-Ur dating. | |||
| August 2005 Work, TA 210: Albion Basin
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Teaching those youngsters how to develop a
geologic map. Incredible stress indicators! |
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| November 2005 Geology Club trip: Southern California
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Pegmatite veins found in Southern California Awesome Lepidolite and termoline! |
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| May 2006 Invitation: Swiss and Italian Alps
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A logistics trip for the 2007 Mega Field Trip | |||
| June 2006 Work, TA 410 Field camp: Mt. Nebo, Utah
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Mapping the Southern end of the Charleston Thrust system. | |||
| July - Sept. 2006 Work: Taipei, Taiwan
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http://www.gl.ntu.edu.tw/english/introduction.php | Working with the National Taiwan University's Geochemical Laboratory to age the coral samples from Timor-Leste | |||