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Field Geology Field Camp

Jade Garza canoeing on the Green River to explore the Kenilworth Member of the Blackhawk Formation in Utah. Photo: Peter Flemings.

During the May term, 82 Jackson School students participated in the field-based GEO 660A and GEO 660B courses, traveling across the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions. Sophomores in GEO 660A built core field skills through projects on Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks near Cañon City, Colorado, geologic mapping around Abiquiu, New Mexico, and basin analysis of clastic strata in Utah’s Book Cliffs. Juniors and seniors in GEO 660B advanced to complex mapping and tectonic synthesis, with one group working near Cañon City and Moab, Utah, and another spanning Abiquiu, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada’s Snake Range, and Arizona’s Grand Canyon region. The courses together showcase the depth and range of field training that defines geoscience education at the Jackson School.

1) Nicole Czwakiel among the rocks. Photo: Nicola Tisato. 2) Teaching assistants Griffin Clevenger, Jack St.Peter, and Emily Launderville in the Spring Canyon Member of the Blackhawk Formation in Utah. Photo: Peter Flemings.
1) Assistant Professor Matt Malkowski in Arches National Park. Photo: Peter Flemings. 2) Students in GEO 660B group hiking near Cañon City, Colorado. Photo: Nicola Tisato. 3) Students Kaif Rehman, Louis-Raphael Daillet, Collin Smith and Abby Mcalanis locating their position on the geologic map of Utah in preparation for a mapping transect of the San Rafael Swell. Photo: Matt Malkowski.
Students observing and measuring the Cañones Fault along the Red Wash Canyon during a mapping project near Abiquiu in northern New Mexico. Photo: Miriam Barquero-Molina:
1) GEO 660B instructors Nicola Tisato (left) and Danny Stockli (cowboy hat) and TAs (left to right) Sage Turek, Megan Kerr and Nicole Czwakiel mapping in Temple Canyon, Colorado. Photo: Danny Stockli. 2) Students using the geologic map of central Utah to discuss their location and strategy for mapping along the San Rafael Swell. Photo: Matt Malkowski.
1) Students getting ready to float the stratigraphy of the Book Cliffs along the Green River after a week of measuring and describing the Blackhawk Formation. Photo: Matt Malkowski. 2) Students learning about extensional tectonics from instructor Brian Horton at the Horse Camp Basin in eastern Nevada. Photo: Craig Martin.
GEO 660A Group 2 photo at the Royal Gorge Canyon in Cañon City, Colorado, as they get ready to drive to New Mexico. Photo: Miriam Barquero-Molina.
1) Instructors Craig Martin and Brian Horton teaching students how to map large-scale structural geology in the Cañon Range, Colorado. Photo: Madison Pierce. 2) Class photo at Delicate Arch after studying the Delicate Arch relay fault system in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. Photo: Craig Martin.
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