6 FRESHMAN AND NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS FIELD TRIP The Freshmen and New graduate Student Field Trip was held October 22 and 23rd, 2016. This is the second year we are running this field trip and hope to make it an annual event. In addition, this year, we decided to include new graduate students as well. The weather was beautiful and the geology great, so what more could one ask? After we set up camp at Lake Murray, we drove close to Sulphur in the Arbuckle Mountains to collect fossils from the Bromide Formation. Next we went west on Goddard Youth Camp Road to the famous “Hunton Anticline” where we examined the Bois d’ Arc Limestone and the Woodford Shale. After that stop, we reversed our path and travelled to the Chickasaw National Recreation Area. We visited the Travertine Nature Center, hiked to Antelope spring and Buffalo Spring and visited Vendome Well. Leaving Sulphur, we traveled west to U.S. Highway 77, which we took into the Arbuckle Anticline and the Turner Falls overlook. Following U.S 77 south, we joined I‐35 and made our last stop of the day to examine the Woodford Shale in the McAlister Cemetery shale pit at Overbrook, Oklahoma. We made it to camp after dark following a quick stop in Overbrook to buy a cigarette lighter so we could light a campfire. On this leg of the trip, we discovered that as smokers are rare these days, finding a lighter or matches is not as easy as it once was. That evening we enjoyed a nice fire and a meal of delicious hot dogs and fruit, followed by roasted marshmallows for dessert. The next morning, we broke camp and drove to Ardmore for breakfast. Leaving Ardmore we traveled west on U.S. 70 through Lone Grove and Ringling to Waurika. We left the highway in Waurika to make a circle around the Jefferson County Courthouse, to see if the building material had geologic significance to Oklahoma. From Waurika we traveled to Randlett and I‐44 a.k.a. the H.E. Bailey Turnpike. We traveled I‐44 to Ardmore for an early lunch and a break before entering the Wichita Mountains. In the uplift area, we first visited Medicine Park to view from a distance the contact between the Mt. Scott Granite and the Mt. Sheridan Gabbro, which weather differently and as a result, host different vegetation. From Medicine Park we drove up Mt. Scott and examined the different rock types evident from the summit. Next, we visited the Post Oak Conglomerate before stopping at the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center. After relaxing bit and learning about the flora, fauna and geology of the refuge, we headed west on OK State Highway 49 to Panther Creek, where we stopped and examined the Glen Mountain Layered Complex. From Panther Creek we drove to French Lake, our last stop, to examine the intrusive contact between younger Quanah Granite and the older Glen Mountain Layered Complex. We made quick stops at the Visitors Center and Chickasha comfort station on I‐44 before returning to Stillwater tired, but satisfied, after two long days in the field in southern Oklahoma. We acknowledge support from Concho Resources Inc., for funding the field trip and other field trips in the School. Freshmen and new student field trip participants examining concretion in the Woodford Shale, Hunton Anticline, near Daughtery, Oklahoma. Left to right: Madahi Lozano, Xitong Hu, Michelle Lutiker, Dr. Natascha Riedinger and Chris Jones.
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