Here is a collection of photos to give you an idea of the field experience BYU-Idaho

Geology majors receive.  All photos except those in central Wyoming were taken within

2 hours of the BYU-Idaho campus, and all during Geology 210 or 410.

My current field vehicle:  a 1988 Suzuki Samurai, modified for rough country.  Copper Mountain in background.

"S" fold in the southern Lost River Range, Sevier Thrust Belt, Idaho.

(Geology 210 and 410)

Jurassic Nugget Sandstone thrust over Paleocene sedimentary rocks,

Prospect-Jackson Thrust, Hoback Canyon, Wyoming.

(Geology 210)

Marker on the Oregon-Mormon Pioneer Trail at Rock Creek,

Wyoming.  Here, the Willie handcart company was regrouped to

await rescue in an early winter snowstorm in 1856.  At least

13 pioneers died the first night here.             (Geology 210)

"Red Grade" south of Lander, Wyoming on the flank of the Wind

River Mountains.  Triassic Chugwater Formation.

(Geology 210)

The Sinks cavern, Popo Agie River, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming.

The P.A. river turns a 360 degree loop, disappearing for a quarter mile

in limestone caves.  (Geology 210)

The Great Unconformity passes above the tunnel between

the pink granitic rocks and tan layered sandstone.  A billion

years of Earth's history is missing across this boundary.  (Geology 210)

My son Spencer, sister Marilee, and her husband Lynn at Alice Lake in the Sawtooth Mountains, central Idaho.

I doubt there is any place on earth more beautiful than this.  (About 3 hours from our campus; family trip).

My old field vehicle--1980 Jeep CJ-7.  Gets me anywhere I want to go, including over Rexburg

streets in winter.   Seen here with my son at 10,400 feet in the Lemhi Mtns. of central Idaho.

Thrust belt structures in the central Lemhi Mtns.  Light gray Saturday Mountain Limestone is thrust over the darker

gray Jefferson Limestone.  Upper plate is folded, and both plates are cut by younger high-angle faults that strike

left-right across the photo.

Here I am atop a peak in the southern Beaverhead Mtns, where we are researching thrust belt

structure and stratigraphy.  Photo August, 2006.  Rocks under my feet are the Mississippian

Snaky Canyon formation.

A nice S-fold in the Mississippian Middle Canyon Formation in the southern Beaverhead Mtns. 

Structure here is deliciously complex, with overturned folds and at least 2 generations

of faults.

More complex folding in the southern Beaverhead Mtns, Scott Peak Formation.

Intraformational folds in the southern Lemhi Mtns.  This unnamed canyon is a wonderland of

stratigraphic and structural marvels.

Here in north Snaky Canyon of the southern Beaverhead Mtns, the Penn-Miss Bluebird Mountain

Formation is thrust over the vertical Miss-Permian Snaky Canyon Formation (at the vegetation change).

Our 2006 Field Camp students at 10,100 feet in the Lemhi Mtns.

Me and three of my children at 10,400 feet in the Lemhi Mtns., August 2006.

Along-strike view of the Sevier thrust belt in the Big Hole Mountains SE of Rexburg.  We can

drive from BYU-Idaho to this spot in less than an hour!

View from the top (elev. 10,100 ft) looking down Moran Canyon in the Tetons.

Photo taken July 27, 2005.

The Grand Teton peeking up over the top of Green Lakes Basin in the Teton Mtns.

Photo taken July 27, 2005.