27 BOONE PICKENS SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY BPSoG in the Field The Introductory Geological Processesy class, led by Dr. Brandon Spencer, visited the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma. Dr. Puckette and Ariel with soil core at Tar Creek. The BPSoG has been busy in the field for the last year! Almost every core class includes at least one field trip, and many of our electives also get students out there to see some fantastic geology. This year, students in Dr. Spencer’s courses took trips all over the state and into adjacent states. Students in Introductory Geological Processes went to Black Mesa, the Wichita Mountains, the Arbuckles, and the Ouachitas, in addition to lots of local spots near Stillwater. Mineralogy/Petrology students took a long trip that hit outcrops stretching from the eastern Arbuckles to the Ouachitas to central Arkansas in the Magnet Cove area. Volcanology students went to the Jemez Mountains in New Mexico to look at recent volcanoes and eruptive products, and learned the value of nice campsites after an…interesting… night on a concrete pad north of Albuquerque. Economic Geology students went to central and southern Colorado to look at lots of different mineral deposits, and many students got their first look at field camp since they stayed on site during the first night of the trip.
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