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Geology Field Camp Itinerary
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Date |
Activity |
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May 26,27 |
Travel to South Dakota (One geology stop second day at Ashfall in Nebraska) |
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May 28 |
Field Trip: Geology of Badlands National Park. Travel to Rapid City |
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May 29 |
Exercise 1: How to measure a stratigraphic section. Geology of the Black Hills & Lower Paleozoic. |
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May 30 |
Exercise 1: Geology of the Black Hills including Upper Paleozoic & Mesozoic Section |
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May 31 |
Field Trip: Southern Black Hills - Jewel Cave National Monument and Mammoth Hot Springs |
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June 1 |
Exercise 2 - Pace & Compass map I: Little Elk Creek |
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June 2 |
Field Trip: Mt. Rushmore. Introduction to mapping techniques in igneous and metamorphic rocks . |
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June 3 |
DAY-OFF |
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June 4 |
Exercise 3 - Pace & Compass map II: Iron Mountain |
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June 5 |
Exercise 4: Outcrop mapping on a topographic base map: Nemo |
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June 6 |
Exercise 4: Outcrop mapping on a topographic base map: Nemo |
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June 7 |
Field Trip: Geology of the Powder River basin, including Devils Tower. Travel from Rapid City to Bearlodge, WY |
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June 8 |
Field Trip: Geology of the Bighorn Mountains. Introduction to Mesozoic section |
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June 9 |
Travel from Bear Lodge to Powell, WY Introduction to Mesozoic section and mapping geologic structures |
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June 10 |
Exercise 5: Mapping geologic structures in the Bighorn Basin. |
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June 11 |
Exercise 5: Mapping geologic structures in the Bighorn Basin. |
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June 12 |
Field Trip: Geology of the Beartooth Mountains. Travel from Powell to Yellowstone National Park. |
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June 13 |
Geology of Yellowstone National Park and surrounding regions |
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June 14 |
Travel from Yellowstone National Park to Powell. Geology of the Heart Mountain Detachment. |
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June 15 |
Travel to Chamberlain, SD |
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June 16 |
Travel to Iowa City, IA |
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June 17 |
Travel to Akron, OH |
