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FIELD
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| Name: |
ESCI 4622, 6 hours of undergraduate credit |
| Where: |
Black Hills, South Dakota and adjacent
Wyoming and Montana.
We stay in dorms at Black Hills State University,
Spearfish, SD |
| Prerequisites: |
Physical Geology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy,
Structural Geology, courses that included
igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic hand
specimen petrology |
| When: |
Start Sunday June 3, 2007 (depart Memphis)
Finish Monday July 4, 2007 (arrive Memphis) |
Costs
(2007):
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University of Memphis
tuition & fees
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$1,507 |
Out-of-state tuition and fees
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$4,195 |
Room and board at BHSU
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$575 |
Miscellaneous field camp expenses
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$375 |
Transportation option 1 - all U of
M (round trip Memphis to SD and transport
in the field)
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$300 |
Transportation option 2 - part U
of M (transport in the field only)
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$200 |
The above costs do not include:
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weekend
meals
- meals in transit to & from
Memphis
- motels in transit
- food and camp fee expenses while
on the Wyoming trip.
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| Application: |
Request
an application from the department (address
on our home page or email Dan
Larsen, Ph.D.).
This will include applications to both
the University of Memphis and the Geology
Field
Camp as well as an information summary
giving details of the camp. Students applying
as
a group (all or none) need to indicate
this on their applications and need to
apply
early. |
| Course of Study: |
We
will spend about 30 days in the Black Hills
and adjacent Wyoming. The Black Hills of
South Dakota provide as many good examples
of different types of geology within a
short distance of each other as any area
in the United States--if not the world.
The stratigraphic section is unusually
complete and varied. The Precambrian core
of the Hills is outstanding as a terrain
for study of igneous and metamorphic rocks
as well as pegmatites and ore bodies, and
the geomorphology is classic.
Stratigraphic studies begin our study
in the Black Hills. While students become
familiar with the rock units with which
they will be dealing for the remainder
of the camp, they are instructed in the
methods and techniques of describing
and measuring stratigraphic sections.
The geologic column of the Black Hills
presents a very complete sequence of
both Paleozoic and Mesozoic formations
representing almost all sedimentary rock
types and environments of deposition
found in mid-North America. Through stratigraphic
studies, students are presented with
an excellent opportunity to familiarize
themselves with many aspects of sedimentation
and sedimentary petrology, as well as
stratigraphy.
Stratigraphic and structural studies
are combined in the form of 2 to 3 day
map problems using topographic base maps,
GPS, and air photos. You will work with
sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous
rocks that are both folded and faulted.
In addition to making geologic maps,
you will construct cross sections, plot
structural data and write geological
and geomorphological reports on selected
areas. You will also conduct a soils/geomorphology
project and a water quality project.
There is no post-camp report. Field trips
to the Central Black Hills and selected
areas of Wyoming and Montana afford opportunities
to study metamorphic and igneous rocks
of several varieties including classic
pegmatites. We will visit several mines,
active and ghost, and Mt. Rushmore as
part of the background geology.
A workday usually starts when the vans
pull out at 7:30 a.m. and ends back at
the dorm about 5 p.m. Students must keep
their notebooks and map projects up-to-date
in the evenings and weekends. Several
night lectures cover the basics of problems
to be encountered the following day. |
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