Capstone Field Experience (GEO 46C3) is a geology field course that is taught entirely off campus. Field camp is a tradition in the education of a geologist. It is an intensive outdoor course that applies classroom and laboratory training to solving geologic problems in the field. Baylor’s field camp emphasizes geologic mapping, styles of tectonism, and stratigraphic relationships. Students can expect to experience the challenges of conducting geologic research in remote areas. Baylor’s field camp conducts geologic exercises in the following areas:
Carbonate stratigraphy and depositional environments in the Permian Basin
Aeolian processes in White Sands National Monument
Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of the San Andres Mountains
Recent volcanism in New Mexico
Fluvial and lacustrine stratigraphy of Petrified Forest National Park
Mapping thin skinned deformation in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
Measuring section at the Grand Canyon
Mapping thrust faults in Ogden, Utah
Mapping glacial geomorphology in Stanley, Utah
Mapping the spatial distribution of water chemistry in Yellowstone National Park
Volcanic geology of Yellowstone National Park
Mapping and measuring section in the Cordilleran fold belt at Dinosaur National Monument
Mapping thick skinned deformation in the Southern San Juan Mountains, Colorado
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