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Pictures from left to right: 1. pahoehoe flows in Hawaii, 2. our hard working students who fought the snow and the cold to see rocks, and 3. the only sunny hour on the last day of our field trip to North Carolina this year... 

Field Trip to North Carolina [2004] 

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Field Trip to North Carolina [2002]

Students for Earth History (GEO 112), Petrology (GEO 212) and Sedimentation and Stratigraphy (GEO 312) attended a departmental field trip to North Carolina on April 10-14, 2002. Benjamin Edwards, Peter Riemersma, Patricia Videtich and I were the faculty on board.. For pictures of the geology and our students on this field trip click here.

Field Trip to Lake Michigan Dunes

Ed Hansen (Professor of Geology at Hope College, Holland, MI, and five faculty members from GVSU Geology [Patricia Videtich, Greg Wilson, Peter Riemersma, Steve Mattox and me] attended a field trip to the dunes along the eastern Lake Michigan coastline. Dr. Hansen informed us about paleosols, dune migration and cross-stratification in these dunes. To see pictures click here.

Field Trip to the famous ophiolitic melange in Ankara, Turkey

Ankara is world renown for its extenmsive outcrops of the ophiolitic melange in the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan suture zone. For pictures from this melange and overlying units click here.

Field Trip to Kilauea in Hawaii

To see pictures of Honolulu and the lava flows on beautiful Kilauea click here.