Project Schedule
GSU Summer
2013 Field Camp
| Date |
Project |
Days |
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| May | 31 | Students who drive personal vehicles leave Atlanta; It takes at least three and a half days (includes 3 nights on the road) to drive 2200 mi to Dillon | ||
| June | 1 | - | ||
| 2 | Students who fly in Bozeman MT arrive and then rent a car and go to Dillon to check in the dorms. They can return the rental car to Butte the next day (June 3). Students who arrive in Butte Airport, stay in a hotel in Butte. |
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| 3 | Students who arrived in the Butte Airport will be picked up at the airport. Please arrive no later than 1:00 PM. , Those people who are in hotels (came from Bozeman the day before), will be picked up around 11 AM from their hotel. Everyone will be driven with the vans to the UM Western in Dillon to check in at: Davis Residence Hall, 2nd Floor, Student, Life Learning Center. Student who travel with personal vehicles arrive in Dillon, MT around noon time. These students should go ahead and check in the dorm (see info about Davis Hall above)! Students arriving late, with peronal vehicles, should call the resident assistant with the public phone located to the left of the entrance door of Davis Hall! |
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4 |
1st day of field camp: Meet with full gear @ 8 AM, in the parking lot in front (i.e., north) of Matthews Hall. Start Frying Pan Project (Mesozoic and part of Paleozoic sequence) | 1 |
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5 |
" |
2 |
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6 |
" |
3 |
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7 |
" |
4 |
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8 |
Frying Pan project due @ 9 pm | 5 |
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9 |
Armsted Project (Paleozoic & Precambrian) | 6 |
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10 |
Armstead Project cont'd - due @ 9 PM | 7 |
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11 |
Kelly Reservoir Project, due @ 9PM | 8 |
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12 |
Independent Day Exercise #1 |
9 |
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13 |
OFF |
10 |
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14 |
Day 1. Road
Trip Starts- camp at West Yellowstone |
11 |
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15 |
Day 2: Yellowstone NP- Camp at Canyon or other camp site |
12 |
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16 |
Day 3: Camp at Canyon |
13 |
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17 |
Day 4. NE YNP, camp at Pebble Creek if possible (Cooke City otherwise)! |
14 |
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18 |
Day 5. NE YNP to Beartooth Mt.and back to Cody WY. Camp in Cody |
15 |
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19 |
Day 6. Cody through the YNP East Gate. Camp in Grand Tetons NP (Gros Ventre) |
16 |
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20 |
Day 7. Remove camp, go to Jackson Hole, then camp at the Craters of the Moon |
17 |
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21 |
Day 8. Craters of the Moon; drive back to Dillon, check in the dorm by about 6 PM |
18 |
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22 |
OFF - End of Geol 4120/6120 (Basic Field Geology) |
19 |
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23 |
Start of Geol 4121/6121 (Advanced Field Geology) |
20 |
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24 |
Rochester Creek Project due @ 9:00 pm | 21 |
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25 |
Start
Trapper Creek Project (Paleozoic & Mesozoic) |
22 |
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26 |
" |
23 |
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27 |
Trapper Creek Project due @ 9:00 PM | 24 |
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28 |
OFF |
25 |
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29 |
Badger Pass Project Starts (Paleozoic and Mesozoic) | 26 |
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30 |
" |
27 |
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July |
1 | " |
28 |
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2 |
" |
29 |
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3 |
Badger Pass Project due @ 9:00 pm | 30 |
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4 |
Field
Indepedent Day Exercise #2 |
31 |
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5 |
OFF |
32 |
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6 |
OFF |
33 |
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7 |
Start Timber Hill Project (Tertiary) | 34 |
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8 |
" |
35 |
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9 |
Timber Hill Projcet due @ 9:00 pm | 36 |
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10 |
OFF |
37 |
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11 |
Start McCartney Mtn Project (Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Tertiary) | 38 |
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12 |
" |
39 |
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13 |
" |
40 |
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14 |
" |
41 |
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15 |
McCartney
Mtn Project due @ 6:00 pm Students driving personal cars may leave Dillon for Atlanta |
42 |
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| July | 16 | Vans leave Dillon at 8:00 AM, taking students to Butte Airport; arrive in Butte at around 9:45 AM. |
43 |
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| 17 | GSU van, etc., stored in Dillon | |||
| 18 | Rental vans returned | |||
