Some people go to Cancun, some to the Bahamas, some to Colorado, most don't remember much about it (Huon know's what i mean!), yes its the spring break time of the year - the infamous week of alcohol, partying and more alcohol for all of America's college students. Instead i was in Utah with 3 other students and Professor George Davis, one of the greatest structural geology and tectonics professors of our time...... and it was awesome!
We travelled up on Saturday last weekend, the journey taking pretty much all day with the usual traffic delays over the Hoover Dam and Las Vegas. The campsite was basic but nice especially when complimented with the amount of food George brought in coolers. Over the following days we took in the stratigraphy and mapped a transition zone in the Hurricane Fault. It's essentially a disperse zone of faulting inbetween 2 big segments of the Hurricane Fault. We must have mapped 50+ faults and the map looks really good. Aside from the mapping we also got a guided tour of the Springdale Landslide (a consequence of the 1992 St George Earthquake), a 3hr tour of the St George Dinosaur tracks with the founding Palaeontologist and visited Zion National Park. A brief selection of photos are in my online albums so check them out.
So now its back to work at the University of Arizona for the final 8 week run to home time in mid-May. There's a heck of a lot to do aswell. A tectonics paper, a plateaus presentation (again!), a fault paper, structural geology labs, possible mid-term exam, final exams, Mars work, Utah fieldtrip write up. The list is long! However, things are looking good. We've (me and Dr Byrne) have hopefully cracked the issue with the Mars radar data so that looks good to be get going soon. We're aiming to write up the Utah work and present it at this years Geological Society of America (GSA) conference in October so all is good. Despite all the work, theres some interesting stuff coming up aswell. My Chemical Romance are playing in Tucson next weekend and the following weekend is the Geodaze symposium and fieldtrip - its all go!
S'all for now guys, laters!
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