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Spring 2010 BGS Field Trip Theme: Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of Central Texas, in honor of Dr. O.T. Hayward (date to be determined)
BGS Head Clod: Gary Stinchcomb, Ph.D. student in Quaternary Geology, will be in charge of field trip planning and organization of a field guide
Tentative Field Trip stops: (Order and final venue still to be determined):
1) Owl Creek: late Pleistocene-Holocene floodplain and alluvial fan section, located on Fort Hood Military Reservation, in Coryell County, TX, lead by Holly Meier (Holly Meier’s Ph.D.)
2) Brezina Farm: late Holocene floodplain near Axtell, in McLennan County, TX (GEO 5340 Paleopedology and GEO 5342 Micromorphology class projects, lead by Gary Stinchcomb and Aislyn Trendell)
3) Waco Mammoth Site: 68-72 ka fluvial and colluvial deposits with fossil Columbian mammoths located in Waco, TX (if open to public by then: John Bongino’s M.S. Thesis)
4) Urbanized fluvial systems: example(s) of highly urbanized fluvial systems and attendant environmental and engineering problems, hopefully to be lead by Dr. Peter Allen
5) Buttermilk Creek, Bell County, TX: late Pleistocene-Holocene floodplain terrace site with cultural materials that pre-date Clovis culture, lead by Drs. Steve Driese and Lee Nordt
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