Day

Aug.

Agenda

1

Fri

18

Leave Nanaimo on the 6:30 AM ferry.  1^st stop: Hope Slide to look at the rocks involved in the slide and to talk about why and how it happened.  2^nd stop: look at Eocene fossils in the Princeton area and talk about the climate and environmental conditions that they indicate.  Overnight at a motel in Hedley.

2

Sat

19

1^st stop: Hedley to look at the sedimentary and intrusive rocks (sills) responsible for the formation of important gold deposits such as the Nickel Plate Mine.  2^nd stop: the Monashee Gneiss north of Osoyoos.  Various stops between Osoyoos and Cranbrook. Overnight at the dorms at College of the Rockies in Cranbrook.

3

Sun

20

1^st stop: examine the Proterozoic Purcell Fm. in the Cranbrook/Kimberly area and talk about rifting of North America. 2^nd stop: the Frank slide to look at the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian limestones that failed, and to discuss the failure mechanism.  3^rd stop windmills in the Pincher Creek area.  Overnight at Steve’s sister’s place in Lethbridge.

4

Mon

21

Dinosaur Pk. to look at the stratigraphy of the Cretaceous sediments and to look for dinosaur bones.  Overnight at a motel in Bassano  Alberta.

5

Tues.

22

Visit the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller and spend more time looking at the Cretaceous rocks. Overnight at the dorms at the University of Calgary.

6

Wed.

23

Various stops to look at Rocky Mountain sedimentology and structure between Calgary and Field.  Overnight at Ramparts Creek Hostel in Banff National Park.

7

Thurs.

24

1^st stop the Columbia Icefields on the Banff-Jasper Highway.  2^nd stop hike to Wilcox pass to look at Cambrian and Ordovician rocks.  Overnight at Whiskey Jack Hostel.

8

Fri

25

Walcott Quarry hike, examination of Cambrian limestone and shale and discussion of the evolutionary significance of the Burgess Shale fossils.   Overnight at Whiskey Jack Hostel.

9

Sat

26

Mt. Stephen hike.  Overnight at Whiskey Jack Hostel.

10

Sun

27

Various stops to look at rocks and tectonics of the Kootenay and Qesnellia Terranes.  Visit to the Revelstoke dam area and to the potential rock failure at Checkerboard Creek. Overnight at the hostel in Squilax on Shuswap Lake.

11

Mon

28

1^st stop: Afton Mine to look at the mine and talk about porphyry copper deposits in B.C., their host rocks and their genesis.  2^nd stop: the MacAbee fossil site near to Cache Creek – more Eocene depositional environments.  3rd stop Cache Ck. Terrane rocks at Cache Ck., then head for the 9 PM ferry.