These photos are from the Geology Department Spring field trip in 1998. You may also look at some pictures of modern corals of Caribbean. Students relaxed at the end of the week by eating pineapple and enjoying the warm weather. Beachrock with black beach sand behind it. The black color of the sand is due to iron minerals from volcanic rocks that have been transported to the coast by rivers.
Students study some reworked volcanic rocks.
Folds with large fault cutting through them. Nancy Budd looks on as students gather coral diversity data from a Miocene reef. R.P. is collecting corals from this great outcrop. These grass flat deposits have experienced some faulting and folding. Miocene coral reef.