Sunday, May 30, 2010

Swell!

The San Rafael Swell, that is. Located along I-70 just west of Green River, UT, the swell is a large monocline (half of a fold) that was pushed up by a fault at depth approximately 60-70 million years ago.  The students are spending a few hours mapping a small portion of it and I'm sitting on a little hill looking at this:



While on the internet. Technology is amazing. When it's not deleting your blog posts.

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