Department of Geology

Schedule 2013

 

May 20 

Organizational meeting in Room 274 Overman Hall, Bowling Green State University, 2 PM.  Housing provided for the night.

 

May 21

Leave BGSU at 6:30 AM from loading area at east side of Overman Hall

 

May 23 

Arrive at KOA campground in Bernalillo, NM in early afternoon, set up camp.

 

May 24 - 28 

Measure Cretaceous section, map faulted and folded rocks near San Ysidro at junction of Basin & Range, Rocky Mountain, and Colorado Plateau provinces. 

 

May 29 - 30 

Travel to Jemez Mountains, NM. Field trip through Jemez volcanic center. Visit Bandelier National Monument and Bradbury Museum in Los Alamos.

 

May 31

Travel to Nathrop Colorado.  Visit Great Sand Dunes National Park.

 

June 1 - 6

Map in Tertiary volcanic and Precambrian plutonic rocks and Quaternary glacial deposits in the Sawatch and Mosquito Mountains of the Central Rocky Mountain province.  GPS navigation and digital mapping.

 

June  7

Travel to Creede mining district Colorado for one night camp. Examine volcanic rocks and mineralization of northern Rio Grande rift and San Juan Mountains. 

 

June  8

Travel to Ft. Lewis College in Durango, CO. 

 

June 9 - 22

Measure Paleozoic section in San Juan Mountains. Map in Precambrian and Paleozoic metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks. Environmental and GIS projects. 

 

June 23

Travel to Denver, CO via Silverton, Ouray, and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. 

 

June 24

Vans leave for BGSU at 7 AM.

 

June 25

Return to BGSU by 7 PM.