NEW MEXICO FIELDTRIP, MARCH, 2002
 

Drs. Mickus, Rovey and Gutierrez led 18 students to New Mexico for the annual GLG 360 fieldtrip. We made a grand tour of the state encountering volcanic features (e.g., cinder cones, lava tubes, stratavolcanoes, tuff deposits, calderas), sedimentary features (e.g., dinosaurs tracks, alluvial and eolian deposits), metamorphic features (e.g., Precambrian mica schists) and a variety of ore deposits (copper and uranium). These features were observed at several National Monuments including Capulin Volcano, Bandelier, El Morro, El Malpais and White Sands.

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Capulin Volcano-A Holocene Cinder Cone	Sierra Grande Mountain (shield volcano) from the summit of Capulin Volcano. Notice Lava Flow beneath Capulin Volcano	Dinosaur footprints within Cretaceous Mudstones at Clayton Lake
Palisades Sill-Precambrian Quartz Monzonite intruding gabbros	The Rio Grande carved this impressive canyon in the Taos Plateau Basalt Field near Taos	The Rio Grande Canyon
Tuff Deposits at Bandelier National Monument	Volcanic Neck and Maar Deposits at Bandelier	Maar Deposits and Baked Zone (Red) of overlying Basalts
Indian Ruins with the Bandelier Tuffs	Indian Ruins at Bandelier	Valles Caldera near Los Alamos
Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone at El Morro NM	Zuni (eolian)-Dakota (fluvial) contact at El Morro NM	Lavatube at El Malpais NM
Students entering Lavatube at El Malpais	Cinder Cone Crater at El Malpais	McCarty's Lava Flow (in valley) at El Malpais NM
Sandstone Arch (Zuni) at El Malpais	Rhyolitic Volcanic Flows at RockHound State Park	RockHound State Park
Gypsum Sand Dunes at White Sands NM	White Sands NM	The Whole Gang at the Top of Capulin Volcano

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