RECENT EOU GEOLOGY TRIPS!
We went up to Eagle Creek a week earlier than usual this year and ran into some cold weather nonetheless. This year's students are the first EOU class to visit the Torchlight Gulch coral locality, which is now known to be part of the Martin Bridge Formation.
Michelle Melchor finds a cephalopod at the Lupherella locality (left); Three guys on a fault along Eagle Creek (center); Lisa Steinbach finds "gold!"
Saturday's (left) and Sunday's (right) groups celebrate making it to the top of Sawtooth Crater!
GEOL 311 Mineralogy Dooley Mountain-Burnt River-Lime Trip
Wouldn't you know-- we take off on a Mineralogy trip the first weekend of fall quarter and it snows, rains, sleets, and hails, but everyone still has a good time! This year's trip took us over the top of Dooley Mountain, down the Burnt River, and then to Lime to look for feldspar crystals. We'll head down to the Owyhee area in the spring-- hopefully the weather will be better!
Crossing the snow on Dooley Mountain (left); Dino May gets a close look at an obsidian dike cutting across volcaniclastic sediments (right).
Kaleb Oveson and Dino May examine an outcrop of perlite on Dooley Mountain (left); Julie Brown hammers on limestone at Lime (center); and the class looks for feldspar crystals at Lime (right).
GEOL 203 Historical Geology John Day Trip
The weather for this year's John Day trip was beautiful! We found lots of fossils in the Clarno Formation, but the Mascall localities were pretty well picked over. Time to find some new ones!
Brogan Parry shows off the fish scale he found at Ochoco Summit (left);
Marcella Bosch, Olivia Alder, Jen Hendriksen, and Jenna Wright pose at the Cant Ranch (center); and
Olivia Alder, Julie Brown, and Candice Burnette feel the vibrations at Blue Basin (right).
The class poses at Blue Basin (left);
Linda Harvey prepares breakfast at Big Bend (center); and
Marcella Bosch hunts for fossils in the Mascall Formation (right)
It was a dark and stormy day, but our hydrology class managed to get its measurements of the flow of the Upper Grande Ronde River. The weather was a little better the next day for our trip down the Lower Powder and then down the Snake River to Hells Canyon Dam. We discovered that less water flows out the end of the Keating Valley than goes in!
Candice Burnette and Renee Coxen struggle to keep their field notes dry (left);
Candice is exactly 5.14 ft tall! (right).
Russ Waisanen in the rain on the Upper Grande Ronde River (left);
Kelsey Swanson and Candice show off the latest in boot styles on the Lower Powder (center);and
Dino May tosses the pipe dredge (right).
Dino, Kelsey, James Dittrick, Renee, Candice, and Craig Byrum pose in the rain in Hells Canyon.
It was a cold and windy day, but this year's Physical Geology class held up well on our field trip around the Grande Ronde Valley and up to Anthony Lakes!
Amber Richardson (left) and Jenna Wright (right) thinking about how Matt Baxter (center) biked from La Grande to Perry to catch up with the field trip group.
Linda Harvey, Stephanie Hendrickson, and Jenna Wright take a self-portrait at Anthony Lakes.
The group examines the landslide at Jumpoff Joe before climbing down to collect fossils.
Candice and Kelsey at Seal Rock.
James and Rustin enjoy seafood at Mo's