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Summer 2011 Geological Field Trips
June 11: Pediment Reasearch Project
Pediments are planation surfaces at the foot of a ridge, mountain range, or plateau. They are commonly carpeted by a thin veneer of rounded rocks—rounded by the action of water. The city of Bozeman is built on a pediment, but there are eroded remnants of a pediment about 100 feet higher to the west and east of the city. There are also a number of pediments along the edges of other mountain ranges in the Gallatin Valley. Pediments likely were formed by strong Flood currents flowing parallel to the mountains. Since we live in a bowl shaped valley, the pediments in Gallatin Valley are complicated because of shifting current directions. We will examine some of the pediments in the Gallatin Valley and attempt to figure out the late Flood water flow through the valley. We will be mostly driving.
August 6: Specimen Ridge Fossil "Forest" Hike
This location is in northeast Yellowstone Park. We will view a series of layers with vertical petrified trees that are interpreted as a series of forest that wereoverwhelmed by volcanic landslide material and then regrew. Each layer represents about 500 years, and there are supposed to be about 27 layers at or near Specimen Ridge. However, there is evidence against this view. They can readily be explained during the Flood. The hike is 4 miles round trip and up 1,400 vertical feet at about 7,000 feet altitude. You must be in at least moderate physical shape.
August 13:Â Bridger Range Missing Billion Years Research Project
We got snowed and hailed out of this project last year. We will attempt it again this year. We start at Fairy Lake, hike over the Bridgers, and down the other side to the contact between the Precambrian Belt Supergroup and the Cambrian Flathead Sandstone. There is a billion years missing at the contact and yet the contact is even, as if that billion years does not exist. We want to take a good look at the contact, and I will like publish a research paper on it in the creationist technical literature. There are also marine fossils to see on the hike. This is 6 miles round trip but you go up about 1,600 vertical feet and down 600 feet at an altitude of around 9,000 feet. You need to be in at least moderate physical shape.
August 20: Gravelly Range Quartzite & Ancient Ice Age Hike
We have done this one twice now. We drive up to the top of the Gravelly Range and take a 3 mile round trip hike at about 10,000 feet. The hike is fairly easy. We will look at well rounded, large quartzite boulders that spread from central Idaho much farther eastward than the Gravelly Range. This is one site out of many. The boulders are rounded rocks by water are at the tops of the mountains. This will be explained in the Flood model. This is also a site that once had two out of three diagnostic features for an ancient ice age, about 50 million years ago in their timescale. However, that was a “time” when it was very warm on Earth, so they had to reject this ancient ice age. Similar ice age features are claimed all the way back to 2.2 billion years ago elsewhere in the world. All of these can be explained the same way as the site on the Gravelly Range, and that is by gigantic submarine landslides during the Flood.
August 27: Bridger Trip Cancelled
One of the researchers could not make it for this trip so it has been cancelled. Have a great summer!