Chiricahuas Field Trip, May 2003


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Listening to talks in Texas Canyon.
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Jani gives her talk next to Wilcox playa.
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Danta Lauretta tests the metal detector, which we used to search the playa for iron-rich meterorites.
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Jay Melosh on the playa.
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Extreme digital zoom of Fortney and Ciesla playing catch on the playa.
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Mike Bland using the metal detector.
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Ralph, Gareth, and I measuring gravity along the side of the road.
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The crew listening to talks along the non-dike. Magnetic instruments perfectly detected the anomaly in the ridge behind us, which was thought to be a dike. However, when walking up to the outcrop it proved to be nothing particularly special.
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Ross, Rachel, Zibi, and I fried a whole turkey at the campsite for dinner the first night! Somehow, we still didn't manage to win the most elaborate meal award.
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Field trippers sit in front of the fire while their dinners cook.
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The turkey cooks away in a vat of grease.
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Playing catch while waiting for people to use the bathroom at the Chiricahuas visitors center.
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View of the hoodoos from the top of the mountain road.
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Fortney and Ciesla are not hung-over.
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Jani in a ventifact cave along a trail that we hiked partway up.
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Rachel discusses Animas playa, just over the border into New Mexico.
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Woah -- Gwen takes an extreme closeup of herself.
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The huge open pit copper mine.
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Jim talks about long run-out landslides.
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Diatomaceous cliffs North of town.
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A planet in the sky!