I found the Santa Clara River, which feeds sediment into one of Brian's dissertation areas. So it's my turn for WoGE #41.
No rules in effect for this one. Note oblique view, direction of north arrow, etc. Please solve it quickly - I'm leaving early on Sunday morning to go take Advanced Structural Geology on a pre-semester field trip.
(I've also added a "Where on Google Earth" extra credit assignment for my intro class. If anyone has a great (and relatively easy-to-find) example of any geologic feature that you could imagine discussing in an intro class, and if you're willing to share, please e-mail me at shearsensibility at gmail dot com. Blog comments, after all, could be found by students before the answers are supposed to be posted!)
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Where on Google Earth #41
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Wasatch Front, western edge of the Basin & Range province, just north of Nephi, Utah. Alluvial fan spanning the range front fault. Mt. Nebo in the top left corner of the oblique view.
D'oh! That's the EASTERN edge of the Basin and Range.
So Kim, is this where your pre-semester field trip is headed? I imagine there'd be lots of good structural geology in the area...
Yes. We're going to Moab first, then to the Snake Range, then spending a day and a half along the Wasatch Front before we come back. There's a 2005 GSA field trip to the Wasatch Fault that we're going to follow, in part, and this is the first stop on it.
I discovered that Google Earth combined with Google maps is a great way to check the driving directions for a field trip - I can look at the roads, I can see if the geology looks accessible, I can get an idea of what can be seen. It's not quite as good as actually visiting the sites, but I found out about this field trip about a week ago, and it's too long of a drive to visit it before I go with the students.
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