K/T Boundary Layer Field trip to Raton, New MExico -- day
2
| Joe's talk on resurgent domes. This is
at Valles caldera, a volcanic collapse feature in Northern New Mexico. The
mountain in the background is Redondo Peak, a resurgent dome. Dave Kring, the
firld trip leader, is showing is a geologic map of the area. |
| Watching talks from our campsite at the
beginning of day 2. |
| The La Cueva ashflow deposit. |
| The crew at La Cueva. |
| Rhyolitic (Silica rich) ashflow and
ashfall deposits interbedded. The obsidian rich Banco Benito flow caps the
formation. |
| Jani Radebaugh climbs very carefully on
the pumice. |
| Physicists looking at rocks. L to R,
Andreas Eckholm, Terry Hurford, Adina Alpert, Joe Spitale, Peter Lanagan, Fred
Ciesla. |
| More of the same . . . Cool picture of
the interbedding though. |
| Pete Lanagan poses fo the camera. |
| Cool refractive rainbow around the sun.
I was really happy that this shot came out, go DC120 :) |
| Ingrid's battleship rock talk. |
| Crazy Pete's Claw of Death. |
| Smoke from the terrible wildfire
burning away Los Alamos. |
| Day 2 sunset. |
On to Day 2