New Mexico Adventures!

June 1st, 2010

I was in a canyon today for the first time! We did a two mile hike through some mountains, stopping occasionally along the way to discuss the geological formations around us. We saw evidence of many different types of faults including a normal strike slip and later saw some folding. The orientation week started off really amazing and has not slowed down since. We are kept busy running from installations of broadband seismographs to lectures about graduate school while at the same time having just enough type for random games of balderdash (geological version of course!) 

A lot of fun activities are still on the way including another hike, and later tonight learning how to "predict" earthquakes.