Spring Field Trip to Northern Arizona,
Southern Utah & Nevada 2008

Dates - May 30 through June 9

A selected list of reading materials - See Reading Materials, below

New - Photos from the 2005 trip are Here
 

Tentative Itinerary
 

• Arrive Las Vegas Airport by 4:00 PM
• Rent Vans
• Grocery Shopping
• Drive to campsite at Valley of Fire State Park

• Explore Valley of Fire State Park
• Drive to Virgin River Gorge
• Virgin Anticline & Quail Creek State Park
• Drive to campsite at Zion National Park

• Drive to Zion National Park
• Hurricane Fault
• Explore Zion
• Camp at Zion National Park

• Explore Zion National Park
• Zion Narrows
• Drive to campsite at Bryce Canyon National Park

• Explore Bryce Canyon
• Explore Kodachrome Basin
• Camp at Kodachrome Basin State Park

• Explore Coral Pink Sand Dunes
• Drive to Kaibab Plateau
• Drive to campsite at Grand Canyon North Rim

• Explore Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim
• Camp at Grand Canyon North Rim

• Explore Kaibab Plateau
• Lee's Ferry
• Drive to Grand Canyon South Rim and explore eastern part of Grand Canyon
• Drive to campsite and Grand Canyon South Rim

• Explore Grand Canyon South Rim
• Drive to Campsite at Sunset Crater
• Explore San Francisco Peaks Volcanic Field
• Campat Grand Canyon South Rim

• Head back toward Las Vegas
• Hoover Dam
• Drive to campsite at Lake Mead

• Flights out of Las Vegas

Reading Materials

Please note that the following list is not yet complete.  I will be adding new references as I find them.

Chronic, H., 1983, Roadside Geology of Arizona. Mountain Press Publishing Company, 321 pp.

Chronic, H., 1990, Roadside Geology of Utah. Mountain Press Publishing Company, 325 pp.

Chronic, H., and Chronic, L., Pages of Stone, Geology of the Grand Canyon & Plateau Country National Parks & Monuments, 2nd Edition, 2004, The Mountaineers Books, 173 pp.

Flodin, E.A.and  Aydin, A., 2004, Evolution of strike-slip fault network, Valley of Fire State Park, southern Nevada.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, no. 1/2, p. 42-59.

Grant, S.K., 1987, Kolob Canyons, Utah: Structure and stratigraphy. Geological Society of America Centennial Filed Guide Volume 2, p. 287-290.

Hamblin, W.K., 1987, Late Cenozoic volcanism in the St. George basin. Utah, Geological Society of America Centennial Filed Guide Volume 2, p. 291-294.

Holm, R.F., 1987, San Francisco Mountain: A late Cenozoic composite volcano in northern Arizona. Geological Society of America Centennial Filed Guide Volume 2, p. 389-392.

Holm, R.F. and Moore, R.B., 1987, Holocene scoria cone a lava flows at Sunset Crater, northern Arizona. Geological Society of America Centennial Filed Guide Volume 2, p. 393-397.

Shoemaker, E.M., 1987, Meteor Crater, Arizona. Geological Society of America Centennial Filed Guide Volume 2, p. 399-404.

Sprinkel, D.A., Chidsy, Jr., T.C., and Anderson, P.A, Eds. Geology of Utah's Parks and Monuments, 2003.  Utah Geological Association and Bryce Canyon Natural History Association, 562 pp.

Ulrich, G.E., 1987, SP Mountain cinder cone and lava flow, northern Arizona. Geological Society of America Centennial Filed Guide Volume 2, p. 385-388.