For details, please see the page of instructions we have included on using the Stripes Phone Registration System. After you have registered, the U of M will bill you for tuition. We will spend about 25 days in the Black Hills and adjacent Wyoming. The stratigraphic section is unusually complete and varied. The Precambrian core of the Hills is outstanding as a terrain for study of igneous and metamorphic rocks as well as pegmatites and ore bodies, and the geomorphology is classic.
Stratigraphic studies begin our study in the Black Hills.
While students become familiar with the rock units with which they will be dealing for the remainder of the camp, they are instructed in the methods and techniques of describing and measuring stratigraphic sections. The geologic column of the Black Hills presents a very complete sequence of both Paleozoic and Mesozoic formations representing almost all sedimentary rock types and environments of deposition found in mid-North America. Through stratigraphic studies, students are presented with an excellent opportunity to familiarize themselves with many aspects of sedimentation and sedimentary petrology, as well as stratigraphy. Stratigraphic and structural studies are combined in the form of 2 to 3 day map problems using topographic base maps, GPS, and air photos. You will work with sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks that are both folded and faulted.