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Geology Field Trips
Economic Geology / Mineralogy – Fall 2007
Viburnum Trend, MO
A fieldtrip to nearly a 1000 ft below can be an interesting one to say the least. Drs. Johnson and Rohs lead the trip including stops at the Brushy Creek mine and igneous rocks at Tiemann Shut-Ins in southeast Missouri. The students in these classes were able to go down into an active lead mine to see galena, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite mineralization in Cambrian-aged dolomitic limestones.
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Geology students collecting samples from the galena-rich deposit. |
We were all decked out with hard hats, head lamps, steel-toed boots, and an emergency breathing apparatus as instructed by our guide. |
Sedimentology Class Trip – Fall 2007
Red Rock Lake and Saylorville Dam, IA
Stratigraphy was studied at Red Rock Lake and Saylorville Dam in Iowa.
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Tidal estuarine and bay-head delta deposits at Red Rock Lake, Iowa. |
Checking out the force of the water at the Saylorville Dam Spillway, Saylorville Lake, Iowa. |
Field Trip Class – Fall 2007
Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
Two packed vans headed out to Colorado to explore the geology around Rocky Mountain National Park including the Silver Plume granite, Boulder Creek granite, as well as metamorphic rocks including mica schist and quartzite.
Field Methods – Summer 2007
Flint Hills, KS
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| Measuring and describing the Permian geology units that are exposed in the Flint Hills of Kansas along Hwy 177 south of Manhattan. | |
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Students in the class are stream gauging along the 102 River south of Maryville near Arkoe, MO as part of a project on stream discharge. |
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Petrology Trip – Spring 2007, 2006, 2005
St. Francois Mountains
Geology students in the Petrology course go to the St. Francois Mountains in southeast Missouri to look at “hard” rocks including granite and rhyolite.
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Knob Lick lookout point exposes the Grassy Mountain ignimbrite and intrusions of the Butler Hill granite and well as providing a view of the huge volcanic caldera that had active eruptions over 1.4 billion years ago. |
Elephant Rocks State Park, about 1 hour south of St. Louis, MO exposes the Graniteville granite, commonly known as Missouri “Red” where differential weathering produces rounded, boulder-sized. |
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The double-arch at Pickle Springs nature area shows how the Lamotte Sandstone has weathered differently in to produce these features. |
Field Trip Class – Fall 2006
Badlands and Black Hills, SD and Devils Tower, WY
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| Dr. Pope provides insight to the stratigraphy and formation of the Badlands in South Dakota. | |
Field Trip Class - Fall 2005
Yellowstone National Park
Dr. Hickey took the students to Yellowstone National Park. This field trip provided examples of geysers and volcanics.
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Columnar jointing visible in Yellowstone National Park. |
Earthquake Lake (Hebgen Lake), Montana. Landslides, seismographs and the dam that held. |
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Absaroka Volcanics just outside the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park. |
Field Trip Class – Fall 2004
Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico
This field trip included a potpourri of geology from the sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic fields with elements of economic geology.
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Haul truck at an open-pit gold mine in Victor, Colorado. |
Dr. Pope and students check out the fossils in Monument Rocks, Kansas. |
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Balanced Rock at Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
K-T Boundary just west of Trinidad, Colorado. |
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