 Bridget panning for garnets |
 Liz panning for garnets |
 Megan panning for garnets |
 Brad, Dave, and Frank take notes |
 Jon with his climbing helmet for a hard hat studying
wollastonite ore. |
 Tim looking at garnet-rich wollastonite ore |
 Brian and Frank loving a day in the pit |
 Megan and Dave |
 Dr. Sarah Tindall - one of the greatest teachers I've ever met - with Bridget |
 Dr. Sarah Tindall amazing Dave with some garnet-rich ore |
 Stopping for a break part of the way up the mountain |
 The Giant's Washbowl - a beautiful glacial lake |
 We had great fall colors this year and wonderful weather |
 Beautiful fall colors |
 Sometimes we got to camp late enough that we had to set up tents in the dark. That just builds character! :-) |
 Ed, Brad, Dave, and Frank feeling good with their tents up and bellies full. |
 Liz, Megan, Crystal, and Bridget happy with their tent up and bellies full |
 Crystal and Brad explore a waterfall |
 Charnockite? Mangerite? It all depends on the
percentage of quartz! |
 Brad and Liz discuss their findings |
 Bridget and Crystal work through the rain. Rain
makes looking at rocks easier because you don't even have to lick them
to see the wetted surface! |
 Brad demonstrating good hand lens technique as Megan does
math in her head. |
 Dr. Sarah
Tindall explaining mylonite fabric |
 Dr. Sarah
Tindall's lecture on mylonites - like a ballet mixed with a lecture
mixed with mountain climbing! |
 Train Wreck Outcrop - boudinaged garnet layer in wildly
folded marble |
 highlight of a single bed traced in fold |
 boudinage - brittle garnet breaks and calcite fills in
fracture |
 ptygmatic folding |
 Quartz (annotated "Q") fills gaps between feldspar
boudinage |
 K-feldspar porphyroblasts |
 Dark gray/black was a basalt dike/sill prior to
metamorphism.Now it's an amphibolite with a paleomag drill core hole |
 There's always at least one monkey in the class. |
 Two professors inspecting ptygmatic folds in the Popple Hill Gneiss. |
 What a ham! Can you believe this guy is in charge of running these field trips? |
 Dr. Friehauf's white board explanation for the origin of
ptygmatic folds and boudinage |
 Ed inspecting rocks near an underground drill. |
 Jon, Megan, Dave, and Brad riding in the transport truck underground. |
 Frank looking sharp in his underground mine gear. |
 High grade zinc ore |
 Studying folded sphalerite ores |
 Folded sphalerite-bearing marble |
 Ed explores some sphalerite-bearing marble |
 Extremely complex sphalerite marble ore |
