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   At the "Bug" Outcrop.  Contacts between a light colored tuff and dark basalt flows.





   At the "Bug" Outcrop. Students looking at massive cross-bedding in tuffaceous sandstone.


   At the "Bug" Outcrop. Students looking at more massive cross-bedding in tuffaceous sandstone.


   Measuring gravity at the base station with the Worden gravimeter.


   View of the profile from the base station to the "bug" outcrop near Shoshone.


   The flag team starts the profile.


    Drop stone in the Proterozoic Kingston Peak Formation in the Sperry Hills.  This is just cool!
The stone is about 5 feet long.


    On top of Cinder Hill in Southern Death Valley looking at the Southern Death Valley Fault Zone.


   Overturned anticline and syncline in Titus Canyon.  Up is Down!


   Rainbow Mountain near China Ranch from a higher than expected vantage point.


    A great view up Greenwater valley from the Shoshone volcanics on the west side of the Dublin Hills.


    At the Hole-in-the-Wall.  Conglomerates of the Furnace Creek formation.


   At Dante's View looking northwest.


   At Dante's View looking down 1 mile to Badwater.


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