Field Camp Reflections...

In the process of backing up my computer before reformatting and installing Gutsy, I came across a few photos from a field camp I TA'd for in graduate school. We were in the Grouse Creek Mountains (camping at the base of Twin Peaks) in NW Utah. It was a pretty fantastic location, both for camping and geology! Just wanted to share a few of the field photos...

This is a wave-scoured Bonneville age shoreline, just south of the Grouse Creeks. Fantastic polish and terraces cut into the quartzite! It's possible to find these remnant shorelines in Google Earth if you're persistent, I failed to find this exact one though...

I remember the actual day in structural geology when Bill Kid described boudinage. "It's French, for sausage." For some reason this was really funny at the time, but fascinating nevertheless. I have photos of boudinage from all over the place now, excellent indicators of a shear zone in an extensional regime.

A really nice fold in Paleozoic Quartzite of Clark's Basin, this was one of my favorite units during field camp.

Another incredible fold in the Ordovician Pogonip Group (named after Pogonip Ridge in White Pine County, NV). You can see a 'glimmer' of the landscape in the background, truly a wonderful field site.

I don't remember the mountain now, but I remember it was on the way to the local general store, I hope they're still going! Couldn't help myself, an active Utah volcano, it's so rare. :)

Gorgeous stretched pebble conglomerate, I have quite a few samples of this outcrop to illustrate ductile deformation. Always nice to reflect on previous field sites, thought someone might enjoy the images.