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ky raccoon lennon mccartney this entry doesn t need much from me these are some of the photographs that i took while on my other mineralogy petrology class field trip this one was out to the black hills it consisted of two 12 hour drives three days of mid october camping excellent weather and good times i think that my whole class enjoyed this trip i know that i sure did anyway the photos speak for themselves enjoy oh yeah i almost forgot the seventh photo down is of the above ground portion of the world s most productive gold mine the homestake mine in lead south dakota oh yeah and i didn t see any raccoons labels college field trip geology posted by jeffox at 4 08 pm 1 comments going up the country i m going up the country babe don t you wanna go i m going up the country babe don t you wanna go i m going to some place where i ve never been before i m going i m going where the water tastes like wine well i m going where the water tastes like wine we can jump in the water stay drunk all the time a wilson as you people what all 3 or 4 of you you know who you are who regularly read my blog know i m currently a geology major at uwec the nice thing about that as i ve written before is that i get to take field trips as part of my education i like field trips i get to go places and learn things at those places this is a story about a field trip that our mineralogy petrology class took to northern wisconsin i had a very good time i think that my whole class did and took a few photos without bothering you with the geological details that i have to pay perfectly good money to learn i ll provide you with a story of that weekend which occurred sometime in the middle of last september our trip centered in mellen wisconsin which has a few famous quarries for the local granite it s also fairly well centered to show the 1 1 billion year old failed continental rift area in northern wisconsin it was just the right time of year for color change of the local flora as you can see from some of the photos we stayed at a campground on mineral lake and we were there for three days and three nights the weather was decent most of the time with only one day of rain but a pretty full day of light rain on the whole trip anyways i ll pretty much let you see for yourself what it was like below as per usual are selected captioned photos of the trip enjoy i sure had a good time taking them this is a nice photo of mineral lake taken the morning after the all day drizzle from our campground area i like mist a nice photo from a location just south of mellen this view typifies the scenery we encountered throughout the field trip not that i complained one of our stops was an abandoned iron mine on top of mount whittlesey about 3 4 miles from mellen this is a view from the top looking roughly east and this is what the banded iron formation at the top looks like this is a view of the mellen granite quarry the granite is supposed to be rather famous as excellent material for counter tops and the like this stop was made on the day it rained this is a nice photo of part of the series of waterfalls of the potato river taken from a rock out in the middle this late in the year the water was both shallow and slow this is a composite of two photos of one of our last stops the most northern point of our entire trip yes this is one big lake actually it s the biggest lake in the world in surface area you can guess the name after two and a half days of looking at and learning about rocks we spent some time here eating lunch and getting vengeance on those rocks by throwing them into the lake it was a fitting end to a great weekend as i wrote i had a lot of fun on this field trip i hope that all of you like the photos and story let me know how you feel labels college field trip geology wisconsin posted by jeffox at 6 24 am 5 comments monday september 22 2008 walk like an egyptian all the school kids so sick of books they like the punk and the metal band when the buzzer rings oh whey oh they re walking like an egyptian l sternberg as you may have guessed by now i m back at school i m currently taking three courses a pre calculus math course an intro to archeology course and one of my core courses for my major mineralogy petrology min pet for short i m also working part time in the university s sandwich shop about 20 hours per week i m much busier now than i was during the summer and things seem to be going pretty well so far one of the major advantages to taking uwec s min pet course is that we get to go on two major field trips during the semester we also take shorter field trips about once every other week depending upon the weather for the last two weeks we ve been going to a nearby location called lake wissota this entry is about those two trips lake wissota was formed when the power company built a dam across the chippewa river near chippewa falls the place we ve been visiting is located downstream of the dam and formerly was under water most of the time depending on the river level like our last semester s visits to the jim s falls and big falls areas the rocks exposed are very interesting and are not the usual strata found in the driftless area of wisconsin which is basically cambrian era sandstone the most interesting feature of this lake wissota site is that it shows an intrusion of basaltic magma congruent with the continental rift event of about 1 1 billion years ago anyways the place is pretty cool imo oh and the title of this entry comes from the song we all heard on the radio while we were on our way to our little expedition i hadn t heard it in more than a decade below are captioned photos taken at the lake wissota location we had to hike in about a 1 2 mile from the van parking area the weather on both visits was excellent about 70 f with mostly blue skies i know that i learned a lot and had a good time and i think my classmates felt the same let s hope that our next field trip s are as good as these were most of our group having just unloaded at the parking area lake wissota the power dam is an extension of the road on the right out of view in the photo our group turned even further right than that downstream of the dam after a while we had to cross a creek the water weathered rock formation that we passed over and the main site itself note the darker color of the rocks on the left compared to the right on the left is the intrusive basaltic rocks the right are the much older parent rocks our group at the main formation another view of the water weathered basaltic flow yet another view of the basaltic rock note the differences in weathering coloration another photo of our group at the main site we re studying rocks in wisconsin labels college geology wisconsin posted by jeffox at 8 32 pm 3 comments sunday september 21 2008 summer in the city hot town summer in the city back of my neck getting dirty and gritty been down isn t it a pity doesn t seem to be a shadow in the city all around people looking half dead walking on the sidewalk hotter than a match head but at night it s a different world go out and find a girl come on come on and dance all night despite the heat it ll be alright and babe don t you know it s a pity that the days can t be like the nights in the summer in the city in the summer in the city m sebastian i spent the better part of this last summer waiting for school to begin again most of my time was spent getting ready for my second semester at uwec and the rest was actually for the most part quite boring i did take to walking around my new home of oak lair not it s real name and sometimes taking a few photos that s pretty much what this article is about many of you have already seen the only real excitement that i had this summer if not check out my previous entry i ll remember the river float fondly we all had such a good time otherwise i did watch quite a few brewers games and they tended to win this now being late september however now they re not doing so good it sort of doesn t matter because school is now taking up an awful lot of my time i ve barely had time to process this blog and make any entries however i have to do this now because i ve already got two more posts planned our first two field trips out to lake wissota and our first real big field trip up to northern wisconsin and the up of michigan anyway this whole post is just to catch all of you up with where i m at in life right now like any summer it was hot here however it was an average summer maybe a little on the coolish side this year we had a few thunderstorms pass through but no real bad weather to note for the most part these are just captioned photos taken this summer well one from late spring here in town i think that my digital camera sure makes my photography look good but understand it s mostly the camera and the subjects and not the operator that makes the difference here anyways enjoy this one is taken from the top of a local high point called mount tom like most of western wisconsin there are a lot of whitetails in town another high point in town is a place called mount simon this is a photo from my climb to its summit this is what the summit looks like evidently it s a fairly secluded place for the local kids to party this is a nice shot of one of the views from the summit not too far from mount simon is the small lake formed behind the chippewa river dam in town it s called dell s pond and the fishing is supposed to be pretty good a nice 13 smallmouth taken from the dell s pond dock decent this is a photo taken very close to where i live the view is to the southwest near the university is this building on water street gargoyles are cool some elected official forgot that this was wisconsin another view of dell s pond sigh labels humor my life wisconsin posted by jeffox at 8 16 pm 3 comments friday august 08 2008 i got a line on you let me take you baby down to the river bed got to tell you somethin go right to your head cause i got a line on you babe i got a line on you r california i ve been spending most of my time this summer waiting and preparing for next fall s college term in the meantime i ve been watching the brewers do pretty well since i don t have a television of my own i watch the games at the place where i also go to eat that s handy for me and this place also gives me somewhere to go when i m bored it s called the amber inn and it s run by a very cool fellow by the name of orv one day not too long ago somebody got the bright idea to have a float on the local river that runs through town this is the story of that fun filled event sponsored by the aforementioned amber inn truthfully in my opinion the pictures pretty much speak for themselves i ve provided a few captions for you we had about a dozen people on the float most riding on some sort of inner tube orv sailed a canoe myself i had a brandy new tube to float on and i had a very very good time i think we all did anyway here you go this photo was taken at the amber inn s parking lot prior to our group loading up in the van and shuttling down to the start landing most of our group getting ready to start the shove off point on the river was just out of view behind the trees on the left most of our group in the water just before i got in two views from the river the large mostly yellow float is actually a kiddie pool our only stop along the way was this tree swing hoo haa lots of fun another view from the river the end of the line the trip lasted about 4 1 2 hours so we were pretty tired at this point and here we are back at the amber inn parking lot the first thing most of us did was make plans for next year count me in labels my life weirdness wisconsin posted by jeffox at 10 08 pm 8 comments sunday may 25 2008 rock and roll been a long time been a long time been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time r plant one of the nice things about taking a geology course at uwec is that our class got to go on a field trip this happy occasion occurred during the first weekend in may it was an all day affair and in my opinion ended up being a lot of fun the day started out cool wet but right about noon the sun came out and warmed things up considerably we went to a number of geologic sites in the oak lair not its real name area and got a good hands on education involving the geologic history of western wisconsin our first stop was at the local landfill since the course s name was environmental geology landfills and waste disposal were a part of the curriculum our bus actually drove around the site and we got to view some interesting things involved in it s operation one of these things is that of producing electricity from the methane gas produced by the breakdown of garbage products within the landfill area the entire area was quite large but the landfill takes in garbage from a large area and from as far away as minnesota we didn t get off the bus but that was ok as it was cold and kind of raining while we were there our next stop was at a very pleasant place that i d been to before a place called big falls this is a rather large whitewater area of the oak lair not it s real name river in which the river has cut down through the local sandstone to the underlying and much older precambrian metamorphic rock these rocks demonstrate a mountain building event in wisconsin known as the penokean orogeny they looked cool and it was also nice for me to scope out a part of the river i plan on fishing later ok ok so i m easily distracted that way we were also able to view along the banks the newer mount simon formation sandstone that i ve blogged about before because it underlies an awful lot of wisconsin it s more common than dirt here all in all this is a very cool place i highly recommend it to anybody visiting the area after that we proceeded to another river stop this on the chippewa river a place called jim s falls the geology there was similar but a bit more accessible we ate lunch there and then did a bit of exploring that s about the time that the sun came out and made for a pleasant day one of the most notable things about the metamorphic rock in this area is how very deformed it is often forming whorls and z s as shown in the photos below next on the agenda was a gravel pit near popple lake this was a stop that demonstrated what the glacial till of wisconsin looks like we all got to poke around in the sand and gravel for rocks basically to see that there was quite a variety of rocks deposited there the vast majority of these rocks were not from the local area and many of them could be demonstrated to have been transported from far away to the north these are the hallmarks of glacial deposition and this whole area was known to have been at the glacial margin on a side note i did a naughty and i actually swiped a rock from this site it s obviously part of a banded iron formation and it looks cool too hey now it s not like it s going to be missed and besides the officials that be can pry it...