ISU/UNL 2016 Field Camp Schedule
Sunday
5/22
Arrive at Camp,
Welcome and
Introductory Lecture
(Evening)
5/29
Free Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
5/23
5/24
5/25
5/26
5/27
Field Methods,
Stratigraphic Section and Mapping at Stucco
Orienteering, and
Stratigraphic
Description
5/30
5/31
6/1
6/2
6/3
Mapping at Poverty Flats and Devil's
Regional
Mapping at Alkali Anticline
Kitchen
Stratigraphy
Week 3
6/5
Free Day
6/6
6/7
Basin Analysis Project
6/8
Basin Analysis
Project Due
Week 4
6/12
Free Day
6/13
Mapping along NE
flank of Sheep Mt.
6/15
6/16
6/17
Greybull sandstone project and prospect generation (Guest
Instructors: Kvale and Burke)
Week 5
6/19
6/20
Prepare for camping Drive to Wind
trip; lectures
Rivers; stop at
Thermopolis; eat
dinner in Lander
6/26
6/27
Yellowstone &
Drive back to camp
Tetons; camp at
through YNP; stop
Colter Bay
in Absarokas &
Buffalo Bill Dam
Week 1
Week 2
Week 6
6/14
Mapping at Rose
Dome
6/9
Mapping at Goose
Egg Anticline
Friday
6/10
Mapping at North
Nose Sheep
Mountain
Saturday
5/28
Stucco Field Check
(1/2 Day)
6/4
Alkali Field Check
(1/2 Day)
6/11
Goose Egg-North
Nose Field Check
(1/2 Day)
6/18
AM: Greybull group
presentations
6/21
6/22
Wind River exercise
6/23
Driving day; stop at
Pinedale; camp at
Colter Bay
6/24
6/25
Yellowstone & Tetons; camp at Colter Bay
6/28
6/29
Wind River exercise Final Exam
due
6/30
Camp Cleanup;
leave camp before
noon
7/1
Arrive in Ames
Note: This schedule will be modified to accommodate inclement weather, changes in personnel availability, and to take advantage of unanticipated opportunities
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