Field trip is May 4-6, 2012. Logistics meeting will be held the week before.
Class topics:
1. Extensional faulting vs. block rotations in the Central Mojave Desert
2. Rock avalanches and slow-moving (?) allochthons in the Shadow Valley basin
3. The Newberry Mountains: detachment fault, or not?
4. Overview of the Eastern California Shear Zone and recent earthquakes
5. Quaternary volcanism of the Mojave Desert
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Field trip:
We will leave campus on the afternoon of Friday, May 4, and return to campus on Sunday night, May 6. We will be camping out (see logistics page for more info)
Last updated April 23, 2012, by J. Stock.