The Eastern Geology Club travels to great geology spots every year.
Here are some highlights of our past trips!
WALLA WALLA, GSA, AND THE SOUTHERN OREGON COAST: SPRING 2002
Professor Robert Carson of Whitman College led us on a fascinating tour of the Touchet Beds and clastic dikes near Walla Walla, Washington. The next day, the geology club headed to Corvallis for the Geological Society of America Meeting (hang onto your slides, Jay!), and then traveled to Bandon and toured the southern Oregon coast all the way to California.
Russ Waisanen, Avory Abordonado and J.R. Collier examine the Touchet
beds at Burlingame Canyon.
The group (Russ Waisanen, Kelly Clever, Theresa Hill, Jeff Eastburn,
Bryce Budlong, Karen Pease, Patrick Couture, J.R. Collier and Avory Abordonado)
pose in the flowers high above the Columbia Gorge near Rowena.
Everyone looks cool in front of the spectacular angular unconformity at Shore Acres State Park, south of Coos Bay.
HAWAII: THE BIG ISLAND: SPRING 2001
We had a great trip to the Big Island, continuing our "hot spot" tour!
Puu'oo was erupting and we got to see lava flowing into the sea.
We also had a great time studying the reefs and wave action in the Kona
area.
Mark Peterson, Tim Schwehr and his sister Karla, Ann Bloom-Dickison and her son Nick, and Tanager Stanhope pose in front of the lava entering the sea near Kalapana, Hawaii.
CRATERS OF THE MOON-YELLOWSTONE: SUMMER 2000
Phi Beta Rock traveled to Craters of the Moon and Yellowstone, chasing the hot spot that used to be in the Owyhee area 15 million years ago. Paint pots and hot springs and rhyolite, oh my!
April Van Tassell helps extricate James Hasse from a lava tube at Craters of the Moon, Idaho.
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK TRIP: SUMMER 1999
In July of 1999, the Geology club, Phi Beta Rock, traveled to Glacier National Park to look at the spectacular Precambrian rocks and glacial features in the area. We arrived just as the Going-To-The-Sun Highway opened! A great time was had by all, as the picture below will illustrate.
On the edge along Going-To-The-Sun Highway east of Logan Pass. Reynolds Mountain and Clements Mountain, glacial horns, are in the background. From left to right, Jay Van Tassell, Jenny Campbell, Sara Cartmel, Sandra Staab, Parker McKinley, Jennifer Keene and Kim Haynes.
GRAND CANYON TRIP: SPRING 1998
Phi Beta Rock traveled to Flagstaff, Arizona for the Rocky Mountain GSA section meeting in May of 1998. The trip included visiting Sunset Crater, Walnut Canyon and Wupatki National Monuments and, of course, a hike down into the Grand Canyon!
Sandra Staab rejoices after completing the hike down into the Grand Canyon!
HAWAII TRIP: SPRING 1997
The week before the last week of classes...what better time to go to Hawaii! A great time was had by all as we toured the Big Island and visited Volcanoes National Monument!
Matt Pidcock, Maggie Swanger, Glenn Fromwiller and Amanda Johnson relax on the beach at Kailua-Kona after a hard day of fieldwork.