I am in Logan for this workshop, and so far it has been incredibly interesting. First day was a field trip around the Logan area, beginning at the eastern edge of the Basin and Range geologic province, and traveling up Logan Canyon to the view overlooking Bear Lake in the Rocky Mountain province. Having mapped soils in parts of the world strongly affected by the great Missoula Floods of 13,000 years ago, I was familiar with a similar event that happend during the same time period, the catastrophic draining of Lake Bonneville from Utah into the Snake River and out the Columbia. It is amazing seeing the extent of this huge lake, of which the Great Salt Lake is the last remnant. Much of our day yesterday had to do with this particular window into the geologic past, but we also viewed some incredible geologic history related to the movement of crustal plates and the building of the Rocky Mountains. The changing colors of the maples at the lower elevations and the aspens higher up was magnificent. What a show!Today begins the actual workshop, with the new DSM technology as the center. I'm looking forward to it a lot.
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