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Stanford field camp (GS 190)
Five current or former members of the Historical Geobiology Lab took part in Stanford's field camp (GS 190: Research in the Field) during June and July, 2017. Dr. Erik Sperling, post-doc Dr. Aodhan Butler, undergraduate Liam Bhajan, summer undergraduate researcher Austin Patch, and former research assistant Austin Miller joined seven other Stanford undergraduates for field camp. During the stratigraphic/paleontology module the class worked to measure section and describe fossils in the Lower-Middle Ordovician Pogonip Group in the southern Egan Range and southern Confusion Range in Nevada and Utah. Despite the very warm temperatures, the class had a great time learning field geology studying these classic lower Paleozoic outcrops!
Stanford Geological Sciences students measuring section in the House Limestone, Shingle Pass, Nevada
Stanford Geological Sciences students examining the fossil content of the Shingle Limestone, Shingle Pass, Nevada
Postdoc Aodhan Butler and former research assistant Austin Miller in upper Cambrian stratigraphy, Shingle Pass, Nevada
Sponge fossils in the Shingle Limestone
Field vehicles parked at camp in the southern Confusion Range, Utah
Co-instructor Dr. Elizabeth Miller at Lehi Hintze's marker between the Juab and Kanosh formations, Ibex, Utah
