The primary task for this morning was to assay the stria (crack growth markings) on the giant basalt columns east of Banks Lake.
This outcrop is right below a hanging valley with a little waterfall.
The geologists from Slippery Rock: Dr. Schultz and Dr. Burkhart.
On top of Withrop Moraine, northwest of Dry Falls.
Dr. Burkhart, with geologic maps and posterbook.
Flowers on the moraine.
Field trippers hiking on the moraine.
Breakin' out the hand lens.
Among the giant columns in Frenchman Springs Coulee.
Staggeringly large.
Brian Jackson is down there measuring a cross-section of a column.
Super-fat stria on the Frenchman Springs Coulee columns. This image mostly here for future research purposes.
Same students on the top of the columns as in the next image.
Super-zoom.
Giant columns -- see students precariously at top for scale.
Bending columns across the coulee.
Me and the 6-meter-diameter columns in Frenchman Springs Coulee.
Lenore Lake Caves State Park.
BBQ dinner on the road home.