EAS X429 Field Geology in the Rocky Mountains
EAS X498 Subdiscipline Concentration Courses
EAS E432 Virtual On-Line Field Geology Fundamentals in Montana and Wyoming
EAS X429 and EAS X498 field courses take place at IU’s Judson Mead Geologic Field Station. They are immersive and hands-on geoscience courses taught mainly in the field, and designed to help you build skills and integrate many different geoscience sub-disciplines to solve complex 4-dimensional geologic problems. Projects range from outcrop to regional scale and involve Archean to Cenozoic age rocks.
EAS E432 is a virtual, online version of Field Geology Fundamentals in Montana and Wyoming is designed for students who cannot or should not take a face-to-face course in the field for safety, health or life circumstances reasons.
This course is as close as possible to a face-to-face course without actually going into the field. It utilizes: a) video lectures to replace the classroom and outcrop lectures; b) GPS located field video descriptions, photos, hand lens views, field notes, and field sketches of outcrops; c) Google Earth Pro for 3-D visualization of outcrop settings, tracing contacts away from the video field stations, etc.; d) topographic maps for geologic mapping; e) cross section construction, stereonet analysis, and other geologic analysis tools for interpretation.
The Field Station is located in Cardwell, Montana, which sits in the valley of the Jefferson River in the Tobacco Root Mountains. Our location in the Rocky Mountains is unique with remarkably diverse geology spanning 3.5 Ga of Geologic history. Rocks immediately around the IUGFS include Archean gneisses and schists, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks, Cretaceous-Tertiary intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks, and Neogene sedimentary rocks that are barely lithified.