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The Salt River Canyon, our first talk stop | |
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The Salt River | |
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Listening to Catherine's talk on spheroidal weathering | |
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The spheroidal weathering outcrop we were examining | |
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Betty and Mike at the base of the outcrop | |
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I loved the erosion patterns here | |
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Petroglyphs across the road from the outcrop | |
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Whatever, I had to make sure there was one of me in here somewhere! | |
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Looking across the Springerville Volcanic Field, the site of my talk | |
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Jay's cabin at dawn | |
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Jointing at the La Ventana natural arch stop | |
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The El Malpais National Park where there has been vocanic activity as recently as 3,000 years ago | |
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Kat looking over the overlook | |
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Rory and Mandy | |
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So now there are 2 pictures of me on the fieldtrip! | |
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Listening to Eric's talk | |
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The view from our campsite near Trinidad, CO, on the morning of day 3. Yes, they're the Rockies. Yes, that's snow on them. Yes, it was cold. |
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Photo from David O'Brien | |
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Madrid East, the first place we stopped for the K/T boundary layer | |
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The light grey layer is the K/T boundary, overlain by a coal deposit and then sandstone | |
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Everyone up on the outcrop | |
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Looking up the sandstone to the top of the outcrop | |
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Colin at our second K/T stop, Longs Canyon | |
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The K/T boundary at Longs Canyon | |
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Sliding back down the slope | |
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Digging out samples at our last K/T stop near Starkville, the only place we could take samples from. |
