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Utah's San Rafael Swell.
Utah's San Rafael Swell.

GEO 660

This year, the Jackson School of Geosciences capstone field camp began a new split structure. The course is now divided into GEO 660A and GEO 660B, with each course running for three weeks during the May term. Due to high enrollment, GEO 660A was divided into two groups with the same learning objectives but different field areas. Group 1 explored West Texas and New Mexico with Charlie Kerans and David Mohrig. They then headed to Utah with Matt Malkowski and Peter Flemings.

Group 2 explored Utah with Cornel Olariu and Brian Horton before heading to New Mexico with Jim Gardner and Kenny Befus. GEO 660B focused on structural geology, tectonics and landforms. This group, led by Peter Hennings, Danny Stockli, Craig Martin and Miriam Barquero-Molina, visited Utah, southern Montana, and western Wyoming.

GEO 660 A: GROUP 1

Clockwise from top: A group shot taken while walking up Gentile Wash in the Book Cliffs of Utah; Students Maddox Higbee, Camila van der Maal and Janet Cañamar drafting and correlating their measured sections through the Kenilworth Member of the Blackhawk Formation of the Book Cliffs; Students at the San Rafael Swell in central Utah; Undergraduate student Raleigh Burton uses a geological map and the surrounding outcrop to draft a geological cross section through the San Rafael Swell in central Utah. Credit: Matt Malkowski.

GEO 660A: GROUP 2

Clockwise from top: Students finishing their measured section to document the final sea level transgression of the Kenilworth Member in Utah; Students with rock specimens in the Portillo volcanic field of New Mexico; Cornel Olariu instructs students in Utah; Instructor Kenny Befus teaches students how to pan for heavy mineral separates in the Rio Grande in New Mexico. Credit: Wade Aubin, Matt Malkowski.

GEO 660B

Clockwise from top: Students and instructors looking at an exposure of the Moab Fault right outside Arches National Park in Moab, Utah; Instructor Peter Hennings teaching in the field; A group shot in front of the Teton Range mountains; Group photo of the class beneath the Delicate Arch in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. Credit: Miriam Barquero-Molina.
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