Category Archives: 2011 NW Tip Blog

Pacific NW 2011 trip Photogallery 2: the North Cascades along US 2

Click on the Photogallery 2 title above to access the photos from the Pacific NW 2011 Regional Geology Field Trip.   Photos by Thom Wilch. We left north out of Seattle and traveled across Stevens Pass, examining the igneous and metamorphic … Continue reading

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Pacific NW 2011 trip Photogallery 1: Amtrak from MI to WA

Click on the Photogallery title above to access the photos from the Pacific NW 2011 Regional Geology Field Trip.   Photos by Thom Wilch.  The trip began on Monday after graduation.   Twenty-one students and two faculty members boarded Amtrak in Jackson … Continue reading

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Final trip planning

We will be heading out for Washington state on Monday, two days after graduation.  The class part of the course ended with student presentations of their research report handouts.  The handouts have been compiled into an 85 page document to … Continue reading

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Geology 210

The spring 2011 Regional field geology course will focus on the geology of the Pacific Northwest, culminating with a 14-day field trip to Washington state in May.  The field trip will follow the late Pleistocene megafloods through the  Channeled Scablands … Continue reading

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