We had a great time at field camp this year! The course started out at Four Craters, near Christmas Valley, OR with Thomas Giachetti. Students mapped overlapping lava flows from four cinder cones, and learned to use stereoscopic aerial photography for field studies. From there we moved to Newberry volcano, where we discussed physical volcanology of silicic eruptions.

After Newberry, Sammy Castonguay took the class to Dillon, Montana, for three weeks of structural geology mapping. Students worked with Sammy and Marli Miller to map Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of southwestern Montana. This section included a one day field trip to look at precambrian rocks around the borders of the Wyoming Craton with Sammy, and a three day trip to Glacier National Park with Marli.

From Montana the class returned to Oregon to investigate mafic intrusion dynamics of the Chief Joseph Dike Swarm in and around the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon with Leif Karlstrom. This section included a three day rafting trip down the Grande Ronde River across the Oregon-Washington border to find, characterize, and map previously unmapped dikes in the area.