Dates:June 13 - July 15, 2005.
Please plan to check into the dorms on the afternoon of Sunday, June 12.

Location: Cedar City, Utah

Course Specifics: Two three-credit courses,Field Geology and Advanced Field Geology
(Geol 373 and 374)

Prerequisites: Two courses in Geology required.Petrology, Structural Geology and Stratigraphy are recommended but not required.

Housing: Six-person, three-bedroom apartments with kitchen and bathroom plus a central meeting room with television and VCR. Coin operated laundry facilities are available in the basement of nearby buildings. Phones are local call only.Long distance calls must be made through an 800 number and a calling card.

Camping: During the last week of the camp, we normally go on an extended tour and camp out for four or five nights.Campgrounds are normally at high elevation (commonly 8000 feet) and it can be cold (sometimes in the 40s).You will need a sleeping bag and a ground tarp and a tent is nice, though not absolutely necessary.

Cost: $2800 includes tuition, housing and transportation in the Cedar City area. Not included are (1) transportation to and from Cedar City, (2) food and (3) laundry.

Payment Schedule:

March 1, 2003: First payment of $1400 due.
June 1, 2003: Final payment of $1400 due. Applications will be accepted until all spaces are filled. Space is sometimes available as late as May.

All payments should be addressed to:
Director, Continuing Education
105 ME Annex
University of Missouri-Rolla
Rolla, Mo. 65401
Phone:573-341-4200
Make checks payable to the University of Missouri-Rolla

Travel to and from Camp: Students are on their own with regard to getting to and from Cedar City. However, the field camp rents 10-passenger vans in Las Vegas, Nevada and students can normally get a ride from Las Vegas to Cedar City (160 miles) provided you are in Las Vegas and ready to go at 11:00 A.M. on the Sunday before field camp.

Travel at camp is in 10-passenger, air-conditioned vans.

Climate: Cedar City is at an elevation of 5800 feet.Daytime high temperatures are commonly in the 80s and 90s, rarely over 100.Mid day temperatures can be hot. Evenings are always pleasant and night time low temperatures are typically in the 60s.It is a dry climate and rarely rains.In 30 years, we have never lost a day in the field to inclement weather.

Typical Weekly Schedule:
Monday thru Thursday:In the field from 7:30 A.M. till 4:30 P.M.
Friday:Office day:Assignments are due at 5:00 P.M.
Weekends are free but commonly include trips to Zion, Death Valley or Las Vegas.
Fourth or fifth week is traveling and camping.
Traveling week commonly includes:

Trilobite collecting at the House Range (world famous) west of Delta.
Mineral collecting at the Tintic Mining district or Topaz Mountain.
Marysvale and Mt. Dutton volcanic complexes including spectacular lahars.
Pavant Range: Sevier deformation leading edge recumbant anticline.
Transect of the Cretaceous interior seaway from alluvial fans to deep marine from
the Pavant Range to the San Pitch Valley to the Wasatch Plateau to the San Rafael Swell.
Henry Mountains, Trachyte Mesa, Bullfrog Basin and Lake Powell
The Burr Trail, Waterpocket Fold and Capital Reef National Park
Conclude at Bryce, Zion, and/or Grand Canyon National Parks.

Proximity to National Parks:Cedar City is a staging point for tours of several national parks and monuments including:
Zion National Park: 45 miles
Bryce Canyon National Park: 65 miles
North Rim of the Grand Canyon: 160 miles
Cedar Breaks National Monument: 22 miles
Capital Reef National Park:160 miles
Glen Canyon National Recreation area (Lake Powell): 150 miles
Great Basin National Park: 150 miles
Death Valley National Park: 250 miles

Geology:The Missouri S&T field camp emphasizes:
Structural Geology along the leading edge of the western overthrust belt.
Sevier (compression), Laramide (uplift) and Basin & Range (tension) tectonics.
Mesozoic and Cenozoic stratigraphy and paleoclimatology associated with:

The breakup of Pangaea
Triassic and Jurassic redbeds, evaporites and eolian deposits.
The Cretaceous interior seaway associated with Sevier deformation.
Early Tertiary Lake deposits associated with Laramide deformation.
Mid Tertiary intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks.
Late Tertiary Basin & Range tectonics.

Geomorphic features associated with all of the above.

General:About the camp:
Cedar City, Utah is a spectacular place for a field camp.The geology is excellent, the scenery is wonderful, the weather is good, housing is good, and field access is outstanding. Instructors are in the field all day, every day.We do not dump you in the field in the morning and pick you up in the evening.Although you will work hard, we feel that field camp should be an enjoyable experience for everyone involved.Cedar City is located near a number of national parks and national monuments (see below) and the scenery as well as the geology are spectacular.

Geologically, the field camp is located almost directly on the Hurricane fault, a down-to-the-west normal fault with over 5000 feet of throw.The Hurricane fault is the traditional boundary line between the Basin and Range to the west and the Colorado Plateau to the east, both of which are structurally inverted.Cedar City is located on the leading edge of the western North America fold and thrust belt.Students map in leading edge recumbent folds associated with the thrust belt and work out the natural sequence of events by determining which faults cut which and which are associated with unconformities.

Logistically, housing arrangements are excellent.Students live in six-person apartments with a full kitchen.A volleyball court and bar-b-que grills are located just outside the front door.Cedar City is at an elevation such that days are warm and evenings are cool.The air is dry and rain is rare.Field access is good, as most of Utah is owned either by the state or the federal government. Instructors are field oriented faculty dedicated to teaching and the well-being of students.

Instructors:
Dr. Robert C. Laudon,
Professor, Geological Sciences & Engineering
Associate Dean of Instruction, School of Materials, Energy and Earth Resources
University of Missouri, Rolla
Rolla, Mo. 65401
e-mail: rlaudon@mst.edu
phone 573-341-4466

Dr. John P. Hogan
Associate Professor, Geological Sciences & Engineering
University of Missouri, Rolla
Rolla, Mo. 65401
e-mail: jhogan@mst.edu
phone:573-341-4618

05' Field Camp Pictures

Pictures of Dr. Hogan Going Overboard, Frame by Frame.