Pictures from the USD ESCI-396 Spring Break 2007 Field Trip:

The "great unconformity", Cambrian sandstones lie nonconformably on the Meso-Proterozoic
Pikes Peak granite.  Note Precambrian spheroidal weathering!

The KT boundary above Raton, NM.  Dinosaurs below, and no dinosaurs (or only
avian dinosaurs = birds) above.

The Palisades Sill in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, NM.
A more scenic setting than the renowned sill of the same
name in New Jersey, but tougher to get a good slice of Pizza here.

Frijoles Canyon, the center of Bandelier National Monument

Jake and Kate on the ruins at Bandelier.  A tuff way to live.

Eric on ropey pahoehoe of the Carrizozo lava field

A solitary student, Mason Griffiths, on the dunes at White Sands National Monument

Ripples in the gypsum sand at White Sands

Taking a great leap at White Sands

Park geologist Paul Burger explains the reef structure at Carlsbad Caverns
National Park before we enter the Skeleton Canyon Cave.

Stalactites in the Skeleton Canyon Cave at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM

An ogre-like flowstone formation in the Skeleton Canyon Cave

"The Whale Mouth" in the Carlsbad Caverns

Kay on carbonate teepee structures at Carlsbad Caverns