Field Trip #1: Tertiary Clastics at Pine Forest Golf Course and Red Bluff, Bastrop

I. OBJECTIVES:

• Measure and describe a section of terrigenous clastics.
• Draw an outcrop sketch to document stratigraphic relationships.
• Identify river pebbles for provenance determination.
• Identify sedimentary structures in several outcrops.

II. WHEN:

• February 9 or 10.

 Trips will return to Austin by about 5:30 PM.

III. BRING:

• Clipboard, paper, field book, & appropriate pages of the lab manual.
• Compass, ruler, protractor
• Mechanical & colored pencils
• Hand lens, hammer, acid bottle
• Water, lunch, raincoat

IV. BACKGROUND MATERIAL

• See Field trip 1 pages of your lab manual.

• The Cenozoic geology of the Austin area is described in the "Guidebook to the geology of Travis County".  See also the short section on terrace deposits.

• The UT Bureau of Economic Geology virtual field trip through the Austin area contains a chapter on Colorado River deposits.

Be on time and come prepared!

Last Upldated August 20, 2009
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