Geology field station
The Timberline Ranch in Dubois, Wyoming, serves as a field station headquarters for students attending Miami University's five-week, six-credit-hour undergraduate or graduate field methods courses. The courses emphasize field description and measurement of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, interpretation of regional- and outcrop-scale structures, and traditional geologic mapping updated with remote sensing, GPS, and GIS techniques.
Students
spend the first two weeks camping in the spectacular geology of the Snake
River Plain and Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier-Waterton, Banff, and
Jasper national parks. They then move to the field station headquarters
at Timberline Ranch on the northeast flank of the Wind River Mountains,
where they are based for three weeks whille working in the Wind River and
Absaroka Mountains.
For
more information, visit Miami
University's Field Station website.
