Basin & Range Spring '02!

Nine College of Wooster students participated in a field trip to the southwest as an optional, culminating experience to their course The Basin & Range. Over May 15-23, we examined excellent exposures between Las Vegas, NV and Parker, AZ related to both Mesozoic compression and to Tertiary extension.

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 The group in Red Rocks Park, west of Las Vegas, began their tour of the regional geology by examining Mesozoic rocks and structures, such as the Jurassic-age Aztec Ss. shown here.

(L-R; Sarah Gaudio, Clint Bailey, Jess Conroy, Katherine Nicholson, Suzanne Lucas, Kathy Bremar, Nick Welty, Megan Kennedy, Kristina Brady)

 Checking out amazing roadcut exposure of 18.5 Ma tuffs near Kingman, AZ

 

 
  Jess was always hungry!

 Cool fold in in Miocene Horse Spring Fm., related to local compression adjacent the Lake Mead shear zone

 

 

 Sarah introducing us to her new best friend in historic Oatman, AZ

 Every group has a guy magnet

 

 

 Apparently Megan heard Sarah complain once too often

 The group assembled on a particularly fine polished and striated low-angle fault surface in the northern Black Mountains, AZ