Field trip to the Western Cordillera covering
the Rockies - Colorado Plateau - Basin and Range - Sierra
Nevada
May
17th-Central Plains (central Colorado) and Southern Rocky
Mountains (central Utah)
-Flight from Chicago to Denver,
Colorado
-Drive toward Salina, Utah, with stops to observe
flatirons/monocline structures
-Camp near Manti/Salina
May 18th-Colorado Plateau
(central Utah)
-Field work near Salina Canyon and Gunnison Plateau
-Camp near Salina
May 19th-Western Colorado
Plateau-Eastern Basin and Range (central Utah)
-Field work along the Wasatch Fault near Nephi
-Camp near Green River (Book Cliffs)
May 20th-Colorado Plateau
(southeast Utah)
-Visit Arches National Park; field work along the Moab fault
-Camp near Dead Horse Point
May 21st-Colorado Plateau
(southeast Utah and northern Arizona)
-Drive toward Flagstaff with stops at Monument Valley/Mexican
Hat
-Camp near Flagstaff
May 22nd-Colorado Plateau
(northern Arizona)
-Field work and stops at Sunset Crater, Meteor Crater, and Grand
Falls near Flagstaff
-Camp near Flagstaff
May 23rd-Colorado Plateau
(northern Arizona)
-Visit lava tubes near Flagstaff
-Visit the Grand Canyon
-Camp near the Grand Canyon
May 24th-Western Colorado
Plateau-Eastern Basin and Range (southern Nevada and eastern
California)
-Drive towards Death Valley (stops at Hoover Dam and City of Rocks
near Las Vegas)
-Camp in Death Valley
May 25th-Basin and Range
(eastern California)
-Field work in Death Valley
-Camp in Death Valley
May 26th-Basin and
Range-Sierra Nevada (southeast California)
-Field work in Death Valley/Owens Valley
-Drive to Owens Valley with stops in Panamint Valley
-Camp in Owens Valley
May 27th-Basin and
Range-Sierra Nevada (southeast California)
-Field work in Owens valley (Funeral/White Mtns., Owens Valley
Fault, and Sierra
Nevada-Mt. Whitney)
-Drive toward Mojave Desert and San Andreas Fault
-Camp near Mojave Desert
May 28th-Pacific Margin
Mountains (southern California)
-Field work near Mojave and the San Andreas Fault
-Drive to Los Angeles
-Camp/stay in Los Angeles
May 29th-Pacific Margin
Mountain (southern California)
-Observe earthquake retrofit structures and active
“blind” faults around Los Angeles
-Tour of seismic lab at California Institute of Technology
(Caltech)
-Camp/stay in Los Angeles
May 30th-Flight from Los
Angeles to Chicago/return to Purdue
Moab, UT

Arches National Park, UT

Arches National Park, UT

Arches National Park, UT

Road cut enroute Salina, UT

Near Salina, UT

Campsite at Salina, UT

Campsite at Salina, UT

Lake Powell, AZ

Meteor Crater, AZ

Meteor Crater, AZ

Lava flow near a cinder cone, AZ

Near a cinder cone, AZ

Dry water-fall in the little Colorado, AZ

Grand Canyon, AZ

Grand Canyon, AZ

Hoover Dam, AZ

Hoover Dam, NV

Lake Meade, AZ-NV

Driving in NV

Still Driving, NV

Death Valley, CA

Death Valley, CA

Fault near Death Valley, CA

Dry Lake Bed, CA

View of the Sierra Nevada, CA

Sierra Nevada - Basin and Range boundary, CA

Not sure about this one, CA

Sierra Nevada, CA

Campsite near the Sierra Nevada's, CA

Morning at the campsite near Sierra Nevada, CA

Road cut near Palmdale (San Andreas), CA

Palmdale road cut (Main fault lies at the far end, right where the
slope ends, at least that's what I have been told), CA

Campsite at San Gabriel Mountains, CA

JPL, Pasadena, CA