Academic | Field Camp

Course Content

The Arizona field school is conducted amidst the spectacular geology and scenery of the eastern Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of east central California. Students will have the opportunity to map and gather data in classic examples of thin-skinned thrust belt structures (the so-called “Poleta folds” area in the Inyo Mountains), Mesozoic magmatic arc rocks, contact metamorphic aureoles, regional metamorphic terrains, extensional Basin and Range structures, Quaternary volcanic fields, neotectonic features, and glaciated alpine areas.

Student performance on group and individual mapping projects constitutes the basis for evaluation. Mapping exercises are conducted over periods of one to several days. At the end of the course a regional synthesis is produced by each student.
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