Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Examining sand and gravel...

deposits with my fledgling sedimentologists this afternoon (click to enlarge.) Here's half of my GEOL 411 class focused on sketching an exposure in a wall of a local aggregate pit. The coarse-grained and cross-bedded units seen here are the product of deposition in the waning stages of the Missoula outburst floods during the Late Pleistocene.
Posted by J.P. Buchanan at 5:12 PM
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  1. CandyOctober 6, 2009 at 11:41 PM

    Wow! Looks like you have a big Strat class this year. Geo majors must be up.

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  2. J.P. BuchananOctober 7, 2009 at 8:36 AM

    Hi CO! There are 22 enrolled in strat/sed and we anticipate close to 20 students in field camp this coming summer. Wow, indeed.

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