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Field Camp, Summer Portion Tentative Itinerary
May 17 - June 19, 2009

Horn
 
Instructors: Drs. Tim Duex and Carl Richter
 
Day Date Activity Night
  5/16 Load equipment in Madison Hall Parking Lot: 1 - 3 pm home!
1 5/17 Drive - Lafayette, LA to Sulphur, OK; 500 mi.
Louisiana-Texas Coastal Plain, Edwards Plateau
Camp
2 5/18 Introduction to Arbuckles Camp
3 5/19 Arbuckles Cont; Kindblade Map and Sections Camp
4 5/20 Drive - Sulphur, OK to Albuquerque, NM; 556 mi
High Plains and Rio Grande Rift
Motel
5 5/21 Drive - Albuquerque, NM to Moab UT; 391 mi. Colorado Plateau Camp
6 5/22 Canyonlands, Arches, and vicinity Camp
7 5/23 Moab Valley Map Camp
8 5/24 Onion Creek Diapir Map Camp
9 5/25 Drive - Moab, UT to Rock Springs, WY; 317 mi.
Colorado & Dinosaur NP's;
Motel
10 5/26 Drive - Rock Springs to Lovell, WY; 294 mi.
Wind River Mtns, Sinks of Lander, Thermopolis
Camp
11 5/27 Day off; Mapping project #1 for Summer Only Participants (SOP) Camp
12 5/28 Bighorn Mtn front and Paleozoic Section Camp
13 5/29 Hogback Appreciation Day, Mesozoic Section  
14 5/30 Bighorn Basin Measured Section Camp
15 5/31 Red Pryor I Individual Map Camp
16 6/1 Drive - Lovell to Yellowstone NP thru Redlodge, MT Cabins
17 6/2 Tour of Yellowstone and Grand Tetons NPs, Jackson Hole, Jenny Lake Hostel
18 6/3 Drive - Teton Village to Powell, WY: 250 mi.
Shoshone Valley, Absaroka Mtns, Cody
Dorm
19 6/4 Red Pryor II Map Dorm
20 6/5 Alkali Group Map Dorm
21 6/6 Sheep Mountain Map Dorm
22 6/7 Sheep Mountain Map Dorm
23 6/8 Sheep Mountain Map Dorm
24 6/9 Drafting or day off Dorm
25 6/10 Drive - Powell, WY to Spearfish, SD; 357 mi
Bighorn Mtns, Powder River Basin, Devil's Tower
Camp
26 6/11 Introduction to the Black Hills Camp
27 6/12 Black Hills Gold Mine District (WP); Map #2 (SOP) Camp
28 6/13 Sugarloaf Map Camp
29 6/14 Day off; Map #3 (SOP) Camp
30 6/15 Nemo Map Camp
31 6/16 Mt Rushmore and Pegmatite mine Camp
32 6/17 Drive - Spearfish, SD to Grand Island, NE; 490 mi; Badlands NP, Wall Drug Motel
33 6/18 Drive - Grand Island, NE to Dallas, TX; 650 mi. Motel
34 6/19 Drive - Dallas, TX to Lafayette, LA; 400 mi. Home!
       
Beartooth Mountains

Document last revised Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:03 PM

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