 Chelsea and
Kirsten in the garnet pit |
 Daryl, Chris,
and Shelby pan for garnets |
 Harley, Greg,
and Jason recline on a sofa made of garnet-bearing gabbro |
 Chelsea likes
wollastonite |
 Dr. Sarah Tindall talks
about the structural aspects of ore formation |
 Ben loves
wollastonite |
 Lauren examining wollastonite ore
|
 Great fall
colors this year! |
 Ben, Casey,
Daryl, Michele, and Crystal on the way up |
 Harley, Greg,
Jason,
and Nick on the way up the mountain |
 Anthony,
Harley, Mark, Greg F, KP, Chelsea, and Lauren on the way up |
 Connor enjoying
being inside a cloud |
 Clouds moving
up valleys as seen through a break in the fog |
 Lauren looks
out over the foggy valley |
 Connor petting
a fish in the wild! |
 A little yoga before starting the day |
 Nice cascading
waterfall |
 Ed and Connor
relaxing by falls |
 Steve cooking
for the group. We ran three cooking stations each night.Dr. Friehauf cooked at one. Dr. Tindall cooked at another. One of the students cooked at the third. Steve is an excellent cook!!! |
 Dr. Sarah Tindall
cooking dinner |
 Mark and Daryl
Cranberry lake |
 Nice waterfall |
 Harley, Jason,
and Greg discuss the day's observations at camp |
 Warming up by
the fire |
 Boots drying by
the fire |
 Everyone
watching their boots dry by the fire, drinking cofee and hot chocolate |
 Making lunch
before heading out |
 Jason and Greg
enthusiastically explaining the plan for the day |
 Cranberry lake
in the early morning mist |
 Cranberry Lake
- a great place to relax |
 Max brought his
guitar for campfire songs in the evenings |
 Nick brought a mandolin for campfire songs in the evenings |
 Dr. Tindall helps me
explain the day's geology plan |
 Dorky professor
explaining how we know the peak pressures and temperatures of
metamorphism in the Adirondacks |
 Ausable Falls |
 Michele and
Daryl examining the Potsdam sandstone near Ausable Falls |
 Nick testing
the hardness of the pyroxene to determine if it's weathered or not |
 Glacial sand -
a reminder of the great ice sheets that once flowed over this landscape |
 Working out the
relative timing of different magmatic intrusions |
 KP has a
hypothesis that she shares with the group |
 Greg, Jason,
and Andrew closely examine a charnockite outcrop |
 Dr. Tindall helps me
sketch geologic relationships in the Popple Hill gneiss outcrop |
 Crystal points
out the quartz filling the gap between feldspar boudinage |
 Harley and Anthony - they're each about 6'4 and have a
combined weight of 550 pounds of pure muscle and bone! |
 Ben and Mark -
two more "jumbos" - very good guys! |
 Greg and Casey |
 Steve and Jason |
 Nick shows off
some graphite-bearing marble with Max. This sample was a natural
fall sample. We do not use hammers at these outcrops because we
want to preserve them for future generations. |
 Chris and Shelby |
 Lauren loving
graphite-bearing marble |
