GEOL-390 Rocky Mountain Field Trip

 

Presentation topics

 

Date

Location (evening)

Possible topics

Taken?

18

Hedley

1) Hope slide geology

 

2) Hedley area geology

 

19

Cranbrook

3) The Monashee Gneiss and the Okanagan Fault

 

4) Purcell Group and the break up of Rodinia

 

22

Calgary

5) The Cretaceous rocks of central Alberta

 

23

Ramparts Creek

6) Rocky Mt. thrusts and folds

 

7) Athabasca Glacier and the Pleistocene glaciations

Yes

24

Yoho Park (1st night)

7) Paleozoic strata of the Rockies

 

26

Yoho Park (3rd night)

8) Cambrian rocks and fossils

 

27

Squilax

9) Revelstoke area geology and rock-slide potential

 

28

Cache Creek

10) Geology of the Afton mine

 

11) Eocene sediments and fossils