Department of Geology
Schedule 2012

 

May 24 

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

 

May 25 

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

 

May 27 

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

 

May 28 - June 1 

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

 

June 2 - 3 

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

 

June 4

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

 

June 5- 11

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 12 

Travel to Ft. Lewis College in Durango, CO. Examine volcanic rocks and mineralization of northern Rio Grande rift and the San Juan Mountains.

 

June 13 - 26

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

 

June 27

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

 

June 28

Vans leave for BGSU at 7 AM.

 

June 29

Return to BGSU by 7 PM.