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Blizzard at Earthquake Lake, Montana

Field Camp 1981

Students In 1981 options for the Geosciences degree were the general option, biogeology, and geophysics.  The general option and biogeology required Geosc 470, Introduction to Field Geology, during the academic year and summer Geosc 472, Field Geology.  A pre-camp cross-country excursion was available as GSc 471.

Faculty
   Duff Gold, Tom Gardner, Derrill Kerrick, Rudy Slingerland

TAs
   Yen Touysinhthiphonexay (MS81), Sarah Miller, Larry Lew (PhD85)

Where They Stayed
   Northwest Community College, Powell, Wyoming; U of U, Salt Lake City; Alta Peruvian Lodge, Alta, Utah

Major Projects
   Elk Basin, Salt Lake area surficial deposits, Alta overthrust, Alta stock

Click here to read comments and weblinks from the field camp class of 1981

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images: (thanks to Howard Wheeler for many of these)

DuPage County, Illinois, landfill	Van Hise's Rock, Wisconsin	Badlands	Mt Rushmore	Duff talks at the Hugo Mine, SD
Blizzard at Hebgen Lake	blizzard at Hebgen Lake	Yellowstone Falls	Tom Gardner, in Yellowstone, demonstrates what? gravity slide? strike and dip?	The "delta S" group (the Lew-Garland van) at the Gros Ventre landslide
And the delta S van	more of the entropy van	The alien van	Tetons	Marty Portik at Craters of the Moon
At a mall, SLC area	Bingham pit	Group in Little Cottonwood canyon, including Tom Gardner	Larry Lew and friends near Duff's bench, Alta	singing at Alta
Sarah atop Boundary Ridge, Alta	typical Alta Peruvian room	morning on the Alta overthrust project	playtime at the Alta Peruvian	too much geology