GEOL-390 Rocky Mountain Field Trip reading list
| The required reading material is not just for people signed up for GEOL-390. If you're coming on the trip, I'd like you to read this material so that you have an idea in advance of what we're going to be looking at. If you're just coming on the Burgess Shale hikes, then obviously you don't have to read all of the other stuff. |
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Day |
Location |
Things to read (required reading in bold) |
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General:
Where Terranes Collide, by C.J. Yorath, 1990; Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, B.C., Canada. (As well, please have a thoughtful look at Yorath's terrane map of the Cordillera: terranes.gif )
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1 |
Hope slide |
Abstract of a GSA presentation by Evans and Couture (2002): hope-slide-evans.htm Short description of the Hope Slide: hope-slide.doc |
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Tulameen fossils |
Summary of the Okanagan Highlands Eocence fossil sites: archibald-et-al.pdf Eocene climates and ecosystems in the Okanagan Highlands: greenwood-et-al.pdf Description of the Tulameen fossil locality: Tulameen-fossil-locality.doc |
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Hedley |
Geological description of part of the Hedley area: Hedley-geology.pdf |
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Monashee gneiss |
The geology of the western edge of the Monashee (Shuswap)
complex and the Okanagan Fault:
Western-Margin-Shuswap.pdf The geology of the Valhalla complex and the Monashee Gneiss: valhalla.pdf Cross section across the Okanagan Valley: okanagan-valley-cross-section.gif Geological map of the Shuswap Complex: shuswap-complex-ok-fault.gif |
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3 |
Purcell Gp. |
Description of part of the Purcell Supergroup:
Hoy-et-al.pdf Summary of the importance of the Belt/Purcell Supergroup: What is the Belt.doc |
| Elk Valley | Summary of the geology of the Elk Valley Coal Field: elk-valley-coal-field.doc | |
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3 |
Frank slide |
Description of how the Frank Slide failed: frank-slide-failure-mechanism.pdf |
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3 |
Pincher Ck. windmills |
A review of some of the wind energy operations in
southern Alberta: alberta-wind.doc An illustrated tour through some of the wind farms: WindFarm2005Sept.pdf |
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Dinosaur Park |
A synopsis of the Belly River Group (and the Dinosaur Park Fm.): belly-river.pdf |
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Horseshoe Canyon Fm. at Drumheller |
A brief field guide to the Horseshoe Canyon strata in the Drumheller area: HCF-field-guide.doc |
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6 |
Canmore-Banff areas |
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7 |
Athabasca glacier |
A field guide to the Athabasca Glacier: athabasca-fieldguide.pdf |
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Wilcox Pass |
A University of Victoria field guide to the Wilcox Pass strata: uvic-WilcoxPass.pdf |
| 8 & 9 | Burgess shale |
I recommend that you read Stephen J. Gould's Wonderful Life
and also Simon Conway-Morris's The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess
Shale and the rise of animals.
You should also read a discussion between Gould and Conway-Morris that is available here on a website with pictures, http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/naturalhistory_cambrian.html or here as a pdf without pictures: Morris-Gould1998.pdf |
| 10 | Revelstoke area | A description of a rock slide that we will visit in the Revelstoke Dam area: checkerboard.pdf |
| 11 | Afton Mine |
A review of the geology and ore deposits of the
Afton Mine area: iron-mask-afton.doc A Northerm Miner article about the redevelopment of the Afton deposit: northern-miner-afton.pdf A summary of the BSGS Iron Mask Batholith project: iron-mask-project.pdf |
| 11 | MacAbee fosssil site | McAbee flora: delihoff-et-al.pdf |
| 11 | Cache Ck terrane | |
