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27th Annual SPODDS Field Workshop and Meeting
Six members of the Historical Geobiology Lab traveled to Bozeman, MT, for the 27th Annual Stanford Project on Deepwater Depositional Systems (SPODDS) meeting and field workshop. The meeting started with a day-long shale geochemistry short course led by Erik Sperling, followed by a field trip to the Devonian-Carboniferous Sappington Formation, a day-long technical review by SPODDS students, and a field trip to the Mesoproterozoic LaHood Formation in beautiful Jefferson Canyon.
Paleozoic stratigraphy from Hardscrabble Peak, Bridger Range, Montana
Top of the lower black shale and overlying fossiliferous limestone, Sappington Formation, Hardscrabble locality in the Bridger Range
Collaborator Dr. Michael Hofmann (Univ. Montana and AIM Geoanalytics) on the Sappington Formation, Bridger Range
SPODDS students and affiliates discussing shale geochemical data during short course
SPODDS students and affiliates on the Sappington Formation, Nixon Gulch
SPODDS students and affiliates discussing the LaHood conglomerates under threatening skies in Jefferson Canyon
Lab members Samantha Ritzer and Tessa Browne investigate core from the Bakken Formation for comparison with the Sappington outcrop analogue during lunch break
SPODDS 2019 group photo, Milligan Canyon, Montana
Erik Sperling and Michael Hofmann discuss the paleogeographic setting of the Sappington Formation
