Geology students and seniors Tasslyn Gester, Emma Munger, Naia Cobb, Ian Farmer and Gabe Cruz with faculty members Laurie Munger and Cymbre Thomas '03 went on a camping trip to Mono Lake for three days in October to look at igneous rocks. Numerous stops were made along the way to view road cuts, etc. Laurie reports: "Most memorable were Fossil Falls to see a basalt gorge - cut by the ancestral Owens River through a basalt flow. The gorge is next to an impressive cinder cone along HWY 395. We also drove to Horseshoe Meadows at 10,000' above Lone Pine to view glacial topography and the students played in the skiff of snow. We spent time at Mono Lake and Panum Crater (an obsidian and pumice cone only 650 years old). We also saw Convict Lake and its associated glacial features: tarn (lake), cirque headwall with roof pendants of metamorphic rock, and great lateral moraines!"

 

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