Campground at Little
Sheep Creek: view of the outhouse from the tent site of Jerry Bartholomew and
Mitch Smith. Credit: Jerry Bartholomew
Field Camp 1963
Students
In 1963 the Geological Sciences Curriculum included
Departments of Geology, Geophysics-Geochemistry, and Mineralogy. GSc 470,
Introduction to Field Geology, was taught during the academic terms, and Field Geology (GSc
472) was taught as a summer course in the West. It is unclear,
from the University General Catalog, which majors were required to take GSc 472,
but probably geophysicists were not. Thanks to Jerry Bartholomew for the 1963
names.
Faculty
Rob Scholten
(left), Larry Ramspott (PhD62; faculty, University of
Georgia), Larry Lattman (cross-country)
TA
Lynn A Brant
(MS71, DEd80)
Where They Stayed
Little Sheep Creek Campground west of Lima, Montana
(Lima to left)
Main Projects
Mapping in the Tendoy Range
Click
here to read Jerry Bartholomew's recollections about the 1963 field camp, with
some additional comments by Lynn Brant
Click
here to read an essay by Don Kelly on the Wild Cow Milking
Contest, with comments by Ed Beutner, Rob Scholten, and Jerry Bartholomew
And click
here for Leonard (Bob) Gardner's recollections of Herm and the Bug
Click on the
thumbnails to enlarge the images: (thanks to Jerry Bartholomew for the
pictures, which were taken in the 1980s)
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Looking south from Little Water along Dixon Mtn. The show-capped Lima Peaks appear south of Little Sheep Creek.
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A view looking southeast from the top of Dixon Mtn. The Red Rock fault cuts a Pleistocene fan in Red Rock River Valley (lower left).
Town of Lima at top left, Lima Peaks at top right, Big Sheep Creek in lower right. |
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Looking south from Dixon Mtn toward Mt. Garfield (center distance) and the Lima Peaks (left distance).
White Pine Ridge is on the right horizon and Deadwood Gulch in the lower right. |
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View looking south at Mt. Garfield from Little Sheep Creek, at the turnoff to the access road to the campground.
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View looking north down the access road from the campsite toward Little Sheep Creek.
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View of the Lima Peaks (left) and Mt. Garfield (right) south of Little Sheep Creek
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View looking east at the town of Lima. The road to Little Sheep Creek is in the lower right.
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Moose at Dell with Dixon Mtn in the background
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Looking north at Dixon Mtn from White Pine Ridge
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Scarp at the Red Rock fault, along Big Sheep Creek
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Looking west at the scarp of the Red Rock fault, at Little Sheep Creek. The scarp was trenched in 1986, to the right of the road.
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The Sheep Creek segment of the Red Rock fault at Big Sheep Creek. There are two offset Pleistocene alluvial fans.
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View looking west up Big Sheep Creek from the top of White Pine Ridge, looking toward Medicine Lodge Valley.
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Shatter cones in Belt Series rocks in Medicine Lodge Valley. Proceed west from the campsite along Big Sheep Creek and then north.
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Look west at the ghost town of Bannock. It is an old arsenic district and a modern placer gold district.
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The ghost town of Bannock
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The ghost town of Bannock
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The Berkeley pit at Butte
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The Anaconda stack
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Barracks at the old chromite mine, Stillwater.
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