1-day field trip to
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
- Organized by the Institute of Meteoritics at
- http://geosociety.org/Sections/rm/2012mtg/
- Contact Shawn Wright or
Horton Newsom if your question(s) is/are not answered below and to get on
the mailing list for info/details on the Santa Fe impact structure field
trip in 2012. The first email likely
won’t come until early 2012.
·
Check/bookmark this
webpage (epswww.unm.edu/sftrip) and the above GSA Regional link as more details will be updated here
Saturday, May 12th, 2012 field trip
Meet at Hotel Albuquerque at 7:45 AM. Vans leave at 8:00 AM and will return at 6:00 PM.
Please see details on the 2010 field trip below, but keep in mind that the May 12, 2012 trip will be just one day to the Santa Fe impact structure.
The city/plaza of Santa Fe was so popular in 2010 that you have the option of staying in Santa Fe on Saturday night, and taking the Railrunner back to Albuquerque or the airport on Sunday the 13th. You are on your own after the vans leave Santa Fe to return to Albuquerque.
•
Shatter
cones and breccias of
•
Paper
on Shattercones: Fackelman
et al, EPSL, 2008
• Abstracts on Breccias: Tegtmeier et al., Large Meteorite Impacts, 2008 or Wright et al., LPSC, 2010 or Caine et al., GSA, 2007
* Tim McElvaine will share the story of finding the shatter cones.
2010 field trip
- July 23rd
& 24th; Friday / Saturday before MetSoc in NYC
Above left: Dr. Wolf Elston explaining resurgent caldera
geology. Above right: Discussion about
Santa Fe and shatter cone formation.
Thursday, July 22nd
•fly
into ABQ airport; free airport-hotel shuttle to MCM Elegante
hotel in
•$74/night
($83.34 w/ tax) for a single or a double (2 beds) room
•Hot
breakfast buffet and airport shuttle included
•SHUTTLE:
Every 30 minutes, or use MCM Elegante kiosk by the baggage claim to call them
•Several
restaurants in vicinity
•Email
or call your geo-buddies going on the trip to share a room, or …
•We
set up a Google spreadsheet for you to find a roommate at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ (call
or email those who reserved a double or those w/o a roommate or reservation)
•Be
sure to reserve room for Thursday, July 22nd AND a second
reservation for Saturday, July 24th (if returning to Albuquerque;
see below for options)
Friday, July 23rd
•Hot
breakfast buffet at hotel (MCM Elegante)
•Leave
EARLY in morning for 1.5 hour drive to Jemez Mountains
•We
are NOT going through
•Field
trip to Jemez Volcanic Field ignimbrites led by Wolf Elston
- Valles Caldera Field
Trip
Since publication of the classic geologic map by C.
S. Ross, R. L Smith, and R. A. Bailey (USGS), Valles-type ignimbrite
calderas ("supervolcanoes").have been recognized on every
continent and geologic period. Commissioned by NASA for astronaut
training during the height of the pre-Apollo impact vs. volcanism
debate, the map illustrates the similarities and differences between
endogenic and exogenic craters. Complexity increases
with diameter in both types, as both develop unstable walls, central
uplifts, melt sheets, and ejecta blankets. Ignimbrites superficially
resemble suevites, but their petrology reflects the constrained
P/T conditions of exploding shallow granitic magma chambers.
Parallel studies of calderas and impact craters during the 1960s and
1970s restored long-discredited catastrophic concepts to mainstream
geology.
•Check
into Garrett’s Desert Inn near downtown (historic)
•http://www.garrettsdesertinn.com/rates.html
- surf around the site to see info on the rooms, on site French bistro, heated
pool, etc.
•Our
discount is $109/night ($125.42 w/ tax) for a room with two queen beds; we
reserved the last 20 rooms available!
Call 1-800-888-2145 or (505) 982-1851 or use the on-line form (link
above). Even if it quotes you a
different price on-line, you will definitely get the reduced $109 rate. Tell the operator (or write in the on-line
comment box) that you are with “UNM Sante Fe impact crater” group.
•Or
book online and use the code “CONE” (as in shatter cone) for the night of
Friday, July 23rd to the get the $109 rate
•Dinner
on your own in Santa Fe
•explore
the Plaza and local art …
•or
make reservations for the world famous Santa
Fe Opera
•Madame
Butterfly at 9 PM on 7/23, website link above has info on shuttles to pick you
up in Santa Fe
•or
*maybe* 1 field trip van might shuttle opera fans
Saturday, July 24th
•Breakfast
details coming soon (hotel does not provide)
•Shatter
cones and breccias of
•Paper
on Shattercones: Fackelman
et al, EPSL, 2008
•Jared Morrow (SDSU)
will tell us about recent work (above paper) on the petrography of shatter cone
surfaces and shatter cone orientation
•Abstracts
on Breccias: Tegtmeier
et al., Large Meteorite Impacts, 2008 or Wright et al.,
LPSC, 2010 or Caine
et al., GSA, 2007
+ Probably ~2 miles of walking
•Lunch
in field, dinner in
•Two
options: hotel in Sante Fe or Albuquerque
•Staying
in
•Or
return with vans to
Sunday, July 25th
•fly
back home or to
•tour
of UNM Institute of Meteoritics and Lonar shocked basalt collection in late
morning
•UNM
IOM: Excellent meteoritics and geology museums, plus a behind-the-scenes tour
of some shergottites such as Zagami
•Hand
samples and optical microscopy / thin sections of Classes 2,3,4,5 shocked
basalt (maskelynite-bearing through impact melts) from Shawn Wright
•Flying
out Sunday afternoon/night? No problem;
the ‘50’ bus runs until 7 PM and goes from UNM (80 yards south of IOM) to ABQ
airport ($1, 12 min ride)
•*perhaps*
one or two vans will shuttle tour participants to airport; will check when UNM
vans are due back
Details on Fees:
•fee
(cash or check payable to Institute of Meteoritics) to cover costs for field
trip guidebook, UNM van rentals, plus food & Friday’s hotel for our UNM
graduate student drivers, whom have to take a LONG course to become certified
to drive the vans. We need this fee paid
by cash or check and you will receive a detailed receipt listing the field
trip, days, locations, etc. We implore
everyone to take advantage of our vans.
Please contact us if you want to drive your own vehicle. Outcrops on this field trip do not allow for
10 vehicles to park on the road side.
Further, it becomes too complicated to keep track of who owes for
guidebook, who didn’t ride in the vans, etc., so we have to collect the same
field trip fee from everyone attending.
The final cost depends upon the number of field trip participants. We hope to keep it at $60-$75.
•lodging
and meals – you pay these “on your own”; we negotiated a good rate for Thursday
night’s hotel in
•Rough
estimate for lodging + van fees in 2010:
•if
sharing rooms: $83 (2 nights in ABQ) + $63 (1 night in Santa Fe) + $60 (vans) =
about $206
•extra
night in
•Your
own room: 2x($83.34) + 125.42 + ~$60 van/guidebook fee = about $352, and
another $42 if staying in
•Food:
dinners on your own; cost for 2 lunches in the field coming soon …
- FLIGHTS:
- Try to fly
in Thursday, July 22nd in time for optional presentation and
for a good night’s rest
- Fly out
anytime Sunday, July 25th or later (on your own) – optional
IOM tour middle-late Sunday morning into early Sunday afternoon
•Check/bookmark
this webpage (epswww.unm.edu/sftrip) as more details will be updated here