Canyon de Chelly Field Trip

April 20-22, 2007

A movie of Mike in the snow
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Mike talks about stream terraces
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Petroglyphs!
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Salt River Canyon
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Mike investigates spheroidally weathered rocks
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Colin tells us about the Colorado Plateau rim gravels
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Doug looking cold at the Little Colorado
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Tamara tells us about the Little Colorado River (with the highway as a stand-in for the river)
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Petrified wood!
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Doug looking cold by a petrified tree (#1)
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Doug looking cold by a petrified tree (#2)
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Brian rocks out by the fire
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A waterfall by our first campsite
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The colourful Chinle formation
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Doug looking cold by the university van
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Finally some sunshine at our Canyon de Chelly campsite
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Canyon de Chelly!
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Complete with meandering streams...
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...and sandstone layers.
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It's snowing! In Arizona! In April!
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Cliff dwellings
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A canyon formed by groundwater sapping?
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There's no gold at the end of the rainbow... :-(
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Maria the mountain goat
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Streaks of desert varnish
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More ruins
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The crew on the cliffside
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The obligatory tire changing
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Hiking down to the White House
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The White House ruins
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Ripples in the stream
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Dave, the pied piper
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The purported dinosaur footprints
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The alleged dinosaur bones (note: no bones have actually been found at this sight)
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The ostensible dinosaur eggs
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