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Photos
from Field Trip #4
AAPG National Convention, May 2003
Facies Asymmetry in alluvial-lacustrine basins: A transect
across the Uinta Basin, eastern Utah and western Colorado
Leaders:
David Keighley, New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources,
New Brunswick, Canada and Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jim Borer, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Craig Morgan and Kevin McClure, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake
City, UT
Russ Griffin, Questar Corp., Vernal, UT
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Flight Park between Utah Valley
and Salt Lake Valley, looking north towards the Great Salt Lake,
Utah Lake is to the south. |
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Nine Mile Canyon, Castle Peak
interval of the lower member of the Green River Formation. |
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Outcrop of the D marker interval
in Nine Mile Canyon during snow blizzard. |
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Outcrop of the D marker interval
in Nine Mile Canyon during snow blizzard. |
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Nutter Ranch study site in Nine
Mile Canyon. |
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The Alcove in the Nutter Ranch
study site. |
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Upper Highway 21 section along
Raven Ridge. |
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Evacuation Creek, top of Green
River Formation, base of Uinta formation. |
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Road Cliff section along Raven
Ridge, base of Green River Formation, top of Wasatch Formation. |
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Road Cliff section along Raven
Ridge, at the contact of the Green River Formation and underlying
Wasatch Formation. |
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Core workshop in Vernal. |
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Core workshop in Vernal. |
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