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Title: The great Highway 50 rock tour
(2005 Earth Science Week field trip)
Author: D.D LaPointe, David Davis, Jon Price, and Beth Price
Year: 2005
Series: Educational Series 44
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Format: 10 pages, brochure with a map and 10 photos
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This year’s Earth Science Week public field trip will start in Fallon and travel east as far as the Fairview Peak 1954 earthquake scarps with side trips to sites of geologic interest along the way. In keeping with the 2005 National Earth Science Week theme “Geoscientists Explore our Earth,” we will discuss careers in the geosciences such as exploring for mineral resources, investigating Earth hazards to property and people, and monitoring of environmental change on Earth. We will have the opportunity to collect samples of a variety of minerals and rocks along the way, including halite, granite, marble, limestone, calcite, and Nevada Wonderstone.
This approximately 150-mile round trip will take us to sites located 15 to 45 miles east of Fallon. All stops are adjacent to paved or gravel roads accessible by high-clearance vehicles, but some roads may be rocky or rutted. Please keep small children under control as there are steep and dangerous slopes at some sites.
Related information:
http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/Geohazards/index.html
Original Product Code: E44
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