Field trip across Beaver Dam Mountains, Tule Springs Hills, & Mormon Mountains, CA/NV/UT, April 28 - May 1, 2005

If you can't figure out why I took a certain picture, I'm probably looking at a fault or fold. In general, if you see color changes in a hillside, (i.e. gray rocks above red rocks), you're looking at a fault. For example, the pictures with me in them, show gray rocks ~500 million years old (Cambrian) sitting on top of red rocks ~150 million years old (Jurassic). If you can't see any color changes in the picture and it just looks like a hill, trust me, there's a fault there somewhere. The pictures near the end with the orange flowers and the black/white striped hill in the background is cool because that hill has over 20 faults in it! The pictures are in the order of the trip, starting near Las Vegas, then up to the southwestern corner of Utah, then back across Nevada north of Vegas. (As is usual on geologic field trips, the closest we got to Vegas was driving on I-15 past the strip). Other pictures are sunsets, cool clouds, flora, etc.