University of Akron Geology Field Camp


Itinerary - 2009

Date

Activity

May 30,31 

Travel to South Dakota (One geology stop second day at Ashfall  in Nebraska)

June 1

Field Trip: Geology of Badlands National Park. Travel to Rapid City

June 2

Exercise 1: How to measure a stratigraphic section.  Geology of the Black Hills & Lower Paleozoic.

June 3

Exercise 1: Geology of the Black Hills including Upper Paleozoic & Mesozoic Section

June 4

Field Trip: Southern Black Hills - Jewel Cave National Monument and Mammoth Hot Springs 

June 5

Exercise 2 - Pace & Compass map I: Little Elk Creek

June 6

Field Trip:  Mt. Rushmore. Introduction to mapping techniques in igneous and metamorphic rocks .

June 7 

DAY-OFF

June 8

Exercise 3 - Pace & Compass map II: Iron Mountain

June 9 

Exercise 4: Outcrop mapping on a topographic base map: Nemo

June 10

Exercise 4: Outcrop mapping on a topographic base map: Nemo

June 11

Field Trip: Geology of the Powder River basin, including Devils Tower. Travel from Rapid City to Bearlodge, WY

June 12

Field Trip: Geology of the Bighorn Mountains. Introduction to Mesozoic section 

June 13

Travel from Bear Lodge to Powell, WY Introduction to Mesozoic section and mapping geologic structures 

June 14

Exercise 5: Mapping geologic structures in the Bighorn Basin.

June 15

Exercise 5: Mapping geologic structures in the Bighorn Basin.

June 16

Field Trip: Geology of the Beartooth Mountains. Travel from Powell to Yellowstone National Park.

June 17

Geology of Yellowstone National Park and surrounding regions

June 18

Travel from Yellowstone National Park to Powell. Geology of the Heart Mountain Detachment.

June 19 

GFC 2: Exercise 6: Mesozoic Stratigraphy of the Bighorn Basin

GFC 1: Chamberlain SD

June 20

Exercise 6: Mesozoic Stratigraphy of the Bighorn Basin

GFC 1: Travel to Iowa City, IA

June 21

Exercise 7: Goose Egg Anticline solo mapping project, Bighorn Basin

GFC 1: Travel to Akron, OH

June 22

Exercise 7: Goose Egg Anticline solo mapping project, Bighorn Basin

June 23

Day off Cody

June 24

Exercise 8: Geomorphology of the Elk Basin Powell WY

June 25

Exercise 8: Geomorphology of the Elk Basin Powell WY

June 26

 Field Trip: Geology of central Wyoming. Travel from Powell to Rawlins WY

June 27

Exercise 9: Stratigraphy of the Seminoe Mountains.

June 28

Exercise 9: Stratigraphy of the Seminoe Mountains.

June 29 

Exercise 10: Geology of Seminoe Reservoir

June 30

Exercise 10: Geology of Seminoe Reservoir.

July 1

Exercise 10: Geology of Seminoe Reservoir.

June 2

Exercise 10: Geology of Seminoe Reservoir.

July 3

Exercise 10: Geology of Seminoe Reservoir.

July 4

Travel To Corralville Iowa

July 5

. Travel to Akron, OH

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