Feature article archives
2004 GPS Western Australia Trip
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
We left LAX Thursday evening from terminal 4, the American Airlines terminal. Everything got through security all right, though Cody was called back because his Brunton compass set off the alarms with a petroleum smell....
The 2003 GPS Postdoc Field Trip
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
For their annual field trip, the GPS postdocs went to Baja California, Mexico and the Salton Sea in southern California, on January 31 - February 3rd, 2003. The purpose of this field trip was to give an overview of the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates and the opening of the Gulf of California.
The 2002 Student International Field Trip to Brazil
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
The trip took us to many portions of Brazil. We left Pasadena on July 18 and flew to Miami. Then, our route of travel took us first to Rio de Janeiro early the next morning, and after a short wait at the airport, we continued on the flight to Belo Horizonte where we cleared customs and immigration.... (Follow the link above to visit the trip website.)
The 2002 GPS Postdoc Field Trip to Death Valley
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
The 3rd annual GPS Postdoc Field Trip took place the weekend of March 8-10, 2002, in Death Valley National Park. Specific destinations and discussions of this trip included: Tufa Towers in the Trona Pinnacles area, Mosaic Canyon, Ubehebe Craters, Death Valley and Garlock Fault systems, turtleback formations, hypersaline pools and evaporites surrounding Badwater, and Precambrian glacial diamictites.
The Paleomag Lab's Grand Canyon Field Trip, 2001
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
Is there a paleomagnetic record of the Cambrian Inertial Interchange event existent in the Tapeats Sandstone in the Grand Canyon? Our lab took a combined rafting and sampling trip through the Canyon last summer to sample the Tapeats for this purpose. The above link takes you to a slide show of the trip. Click here for a description of research conducted on this trip.
