Senior Field Camp 2012

Information Sources for Localities Visited

Information about sites, many either National Parks (NP)or Monuments (NM), that will be visited during the field camp. Some of this information is available over the internet, others are literature references. Sites are listed alphabetically. This list is not exhaustive. Many other good sources are available, but these should get you started.

DJVU Files - Files shown below as DJVU files require a plug-in, not installed on many computers. The plug-in is available free from LizardTech

Maps of localities are shown on a separate web page.

General Geology Sources

USGS Geology Sources for SFC Area

Association of American State Geologists - Links to State geology Departments in all states
Geology of National Parks - 3D and Photographic Tours Featuring Park Geology and Natural History - 3D images are very nice
Lexicon of Colorado Plateau Stratigraphy
National Geologic Map Database - Geologic Names Lexicon "GEOLEX"
National Geologic Map Database - Catalog of GEOLOGIC and other GEOSCIENCE maps
Park Stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau
Stratigraphic Units of the Colorado Plateau, by Age
Thematic Maps, Southern Colorado Plateau Region
Volcanoes
Water-Quality Data for Selected National Park Units within the Southern Colorado Plateau Network, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, Water Years 2005 and 2006 by Jamie P. Macy and Stephen A. Monroe, USGS Open File Report 2006-1300 (2006). (PDF)

Other General Resources

Delaware Basin

Delaware Basin (Wikipedia)
El Capitan, Texas (Wikipedia)
Guadalupe Peak (Wikipedia)

Geomorphic Provinces

Mines and Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)

Abandoned Mine Lands, USGS Geological Research Activities with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management - one study area is the Upper Animas River
CGS study identifies geology as culprit for poor water quality in parts of Colorado - Colorado Geologic Survey publication

Miscellaneous

Farallon Plate (Wikipedia)
Geologic Timeline of Western North America (Wikipedia)
Laramide Orogeny (Wikipedia)
San Francisco Volcanic Field (Wikipedia)
Tapestry of Time and Terrain (USGS)

State Maps Showing Rivers

Geology of Sites Visited

National Parks (General)

Geology of National Parks - 3D and Photographic Tours Featuring Park Geology and Natural History (USGS)
Tour of Park Geology - NPS

Arches NP (38.683333°, -109.566667°)

Arches NP (Wikipedia)
Arches NP maps and photos (Wikimedia commons)
Arches NP Natural Features and Ecosystems (NPS)
Arches NP Environmental Factors (NPS)
Geology of the Moab Region (Arches, Dead Horse Point and Canyonlands) - Annabelle Foos, Geology Department, University of Akron (PDF)
The Geologic Story of Arches National Park, By S. W. Lohman, Graphics by John R. Stacy, USGS Bulletin 1393, 1975.
NPS Brochures
- Lost Springs Canyon (1998 addition to Arches)

Bottomless Lakes SP (33.327180, -104.334434)

Bottomless Lakes State Park, New Mexico State Parks
Bottomless Lakes State Park (Wikipedia)
Bottomless Lakes Geology (From New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources)

Panorama of Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah by Jonathan Zander

Bryce Canyon NP (37.566667°, -112.183333°)

Bryce Canyon NP (Wikipedia)
Bryce Canyon Geologic Formations (NPS)
Bryce Canyon National Park & the Grand Staircase - Annabelle Foos, Geology Department, University of Akron (PDF)
A Geologic and Geographic Sketch of Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion-Bryce Museum Bulletin No. 4, June 1941, National Park Service

Canyonlands NP (38.2000°, -109.933333°)

Canyonlands NP (Wikipedia)
Canyonlands NP photos (Wikimedia commons)
Canyonlands NP Natural Features and Ecosystems (NPS)
Canyonlands NP Environmental Factors (NPS)
The Geologic Story of Canyonlands National Park by S. W. Lohman, Graphics by John R. Stacy
Depositional environments of the White Rim Sandstone Member of the Permian Cutler Formation, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, by Brenda A. Steele USGS Bulletin 1952, 1987 - DJVU file - requires plugin - see above
The depositional environment and petrology of the White Rim Sandstone Member of the Permian Cutler Formation, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, by B.A. Steele-Mallory, USGS Open File Report 82-204, 1982. Plates for this report. DJVU file - requires plugin - see above
Brochures (All PDF)
Island in the Sky
Maze
Needles
Upheaval Dome

Witchs Finger, Carlsbad Caverns (NPS Photo by Peter Jones)

Carlsbad Caverns NP (32.175278°, -104.443889°)

Carlsbad Caverns NP Nature and Science (NPS)
Carlsbad Caverns NP (Wikipedia)
Carlsbad Caverns NP maps and photos (Wikimedia commons)
Geology of Carlsbad Cavern and other caves in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 117 (1987) (PDF)
NPS Brochures

Colorado NM (39.0561, -108.7332)

Colorado NM Nature and Science (NPS)
Colorado NM Geologic Formations (NPS)
Colorado NM (Wikipedia)
Colorado NM in Geology of National Parks by Ann Harris, Ester Tuttle, Sherwood D. Tuttle (Google Books)
Geology of Colorado National Monument - Annabelle Foos, Univeristy of Akron
John Otto and the creation of Colorado NM (NPS)
Scenic Rim Rock Drive (NPS)

Glen Canyon Dam and NRA (36.93712°, -111.484355°)

Lake Powell, seen from a Shuttle Flight

Glen Canyon Dam (Bureau of Reclamation)
Glen Canyon Dam (Wikipedia)
Glen Canyon Dam photos (Wikimedia commons)
Glen Canyon Dam (USGS)
Glen Canyon Dam (from Kenyon College's capstone course in environmental science) - pros and cons of the dam
Glen Canyon Natural Features & Ecosystems (NPS)
Glen Canyon Startigraphic Column (NPS) (PDF)
Glen Canyon Environmental Factors (NPS)

Panorama of the Grand Canyon on the south rim in the morning, made using Arcsoft PhotoImpression to merge four pictures, by Jonathan Zander.

Grand Canyon (36.0575°, -112.1375°)

Grand Canyon NP (Wikipedia)
Grand Canyon Natural Features and Ecosystems (NPS)
Grand Canyon Environmental Features (NPS)
Geology of the Grand Canyon (Wikipedia)
Grand Canyon (Wikipedia)
Grand Canyon maps and photos (Wikimedia commons)
Age and Evolution of the Grand Canyon Revealed by U-Pb Dating of Water Table-Type Speleothems - Victor Polyak, Carol Hill, Yemane Asmerom, Science 7 March 2008: Vol. 319. no. 5868, pp. 1343 - 1344 DOI: 10.1126/science.1155286
Canyon Cutting on a Grand Time Scale - Tim Atkinson and Mike Leeder, Science 7 March 2008: Vol. 319. no. 5868, pp. 1377 - 1380, DOI: 10.1126/science.1151248
Geology of the Grand Canyon, North Rim - Annabelle Foos, University of Akron
NPS brochures (All PDF)

Guadalupe Mountains NP (31.916667°, -104.866667°)

An Introduction and Virtual Geologic Field Trip to the Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, New Mexico-West Texas
Guadalupe Mountains Natural Features and Ecosystems(Geology)
Guadalupe Mountains NP (Wikipedia)
Guadalupe Mountains (Wikipedia)
Geologic Formations (NPS)
McKittrick Canyon (NPS)
Mckittrick Canyon (Guadalupe Mountains National Park) Geologic Road Log - AAPG Field Seminars
Springs and Seeps (NPS)
The Permian Reef Complex (Delaware Basin) of West Texas - K.A. Grimm
Wallace E. Pratt (NPS)

Ouray, Colorado - GPS (38.023217, −107.672178)

Petrified Forest NP (35.066111°, -109.780833°)

Petrified Forest NP (Wikipedia)
Petrified Forest Natural features and Ecosystems (NPS)
Petrified Forest Environmental Factors (NPS)
Petrified Wood photos (Wikimedia commons)
NPS Brochures

Rio Grande Rift

Rio Grande Rift (Wikipedia)
Rio Grande Rift, GO 568 Structural Geology, James S. Aber
Rio Grande Rift F.A.Q. - Measuring Rio Grande Rift Crustal Deformation - Sheehan Geophysics Research Group
Tertiary Paleogeography, Southwestern US

Shiprock New Mexico

Shiprock Volcanic Neck (36.687778°, -108.836667°)

Shiprock - Wikipedia site
Other volcanic structures - USGS - includes Shiprock as an example
Ship Rock Landform - New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
Navajo Volcanic Field, Arizona - Volcano World
Geology by Light Plane - 3. Rio Grande, Jemez Mountains, San Juan Basin, Shiprock, by Louis J. Maher, Jr.
Ship Rock & the Chuska Volcanic Field , Natural History Organization
Volcanoes of New Mexico - NM Museum of Natural History

Silverton, CO ( 37.8119410°, -107.6645057°)

Multidimensional Spatial Modeling of the May Day Mine Waste Pile, Silverton, Co (PDF)
Generalized Geologic Map of Part of the Upper Animas River Watershed and Vicinity, Silverton, Colorado
- Map PDF File (23.7MB)
- Map PDF File Text (50KB)
Geology, Water Quality, and Avalanche Hazards of the Ouray – Silverton Area, Southwest Colorado - Matthew A. Sares and J. Andrew Gleason
A Brief Geologic History of the Precambrian Rocks of the Needle Mountains, Southwestern Colorado, - Fred Barker U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado (PDF)
Descriptions of the Animas River-Cement Creek Confluence and Mixing Zone near Silverton, Colorado, during the Late Summers of 1996 and 1997
U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2005-1064, Laurence E. Schemel and Marisa H. Cox (PDF)
Abstract
Fossil Tower Karst near Molas Lake Colorado, R. Mark Maslyn, The Mountain Geologist, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Denver, CO, v. 14, no. 1 (Jan. 1977) p. 17-25.

Sunset Crater NM (35.364167°, -111.503056°)

Sunset Crater Volcanic NM (USGS)
Sunset Crater Volcano (USGS)
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Virtual Field Trip (USGS)
Sunset Crater Natural Features and Ecosystems (NPS)
Sunset Crater Environmental Factors (NPS)
The San Francisco Volcanic Field, Arizona By Susan S. Priest, Wendell A. Duffield, Karen Malis-Clark, James W. Hendley II, and Peter H. Stauffer, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 017-01, Created: April 16, 2001, Last modified: 5/12/05. (PDF)
Sunset Crater (Wikipedia)
Sunset Crater photos (Wikimedia commons)

he "Wall Street" section of Zion Narrows in Zion National Park, by Jon Sullivan @ PD Photo.org

Zion NP (37.300°, -113.050°)

Zion NP (Wikipedia)
Zion NP maps and photos (Wikimedia commons)
Freestanding Arches (NPS)
Geology of Zion (NPS)
Geologic Formations (NPS)
Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area (Wikipedia)
Geology of Zion National Park, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park and Snow Canyon State Park - Annabelle Foos and Bruce Simonson (PDF)
Zion National Park: A Photographic Tour Featuring Park Geology (USGS)
Zion Natural Features and Ecosystems (NPS)
Geology Fieldnotes (NPS)
The Narrows (Wikipedia)
Zion National Park: A Geologic and Geographic Sketch , Zion-Bryce Museum Bulletin No. 3, January 1947, National Park Service.
Geomorphic history of the Virgin River in the Zion National Park area, Southwest Utah by Richard Hereford, Gordon C. Jacoby, and V. Alexander McCord, USGS Open File Report 95-515 (1995). DJVU file - requires plugin - see above

Four Corners Information

Durango, Colorado (37.270730, -107.884410)

Durango, CO (Wikipedia)
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway (Wikipedia)
Durango Map (Colorado Department of Transportation PDF file)
Durango Herald (Regional newspaper) GoDurango - Durango area links
Colorado Department of Transportation - Traffic, road conditions, and weather links

Ouray, Colorado - (38.023217, −107.672178)

Ouray Hot Springs Pool (with video)
Ouray, Colorado (Wikipedia)

Silverton, Colorado - (37.81279, -107.6645)

Silverton, CO (Wikipedia)

Weather Information

Current weather (Weather Underground)
- Cities and towns
- National Parks and Monuments
  - Arches NP
  - Bryce Canyon NP
  - Canyonlands NP
  - Carlsbad Caverns NP
  - Colorado NM
  - Grand Canyon NP
  - Guadalupe Mountains NP
  - Mesa Verde NP
  - Sunset Crater NM (Flagstaff, Arizona)
  - Zion NP
- Webcams
  - Durango area webcams
  - Ouray, Colorado webcam
  - Wolf Creek Pass Webcams
    - East Bound
    - West Bound
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Last updated: April 9, 2012