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How to Dress for an Interview Competition 5-6PM Feb 21, 2008.

Club Trip to Ant Hill (Shark Tooth Hill) (Information here)

White Water Rafting Trip (Information here)

GEO-CALENDAR

General Club Meetings -- Every other Thursday, 1:00 pm, Sci II, rm 353 -- Fall Quarter 2008

DATE	EVENT
September 25, 2008	General Club Meeting -- 1:00 pm, Sci II, rm 353
October 9, 2008	General Club Meeting
October 23, 2008	General Club Meeting
November 6, 2008	General Club Meeting

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Meeting Agenda - January 2008

AAPG	- Student Chapter Program
AAPG Student Chapter Sites	- Check out other AAPG Student Chapter websites at universities around the country and the world.
Athena Mineralogy Database	- A really cool database featuring minerals, even those you didn't know about! Chemical composition and great pictures too!
Buena Vista Museum of Natural History	- A great local museum containing fossils from the surrounding area and educational programs, field trips and more!

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Past Field Trips

October 2004 Gem-O-Rama and Trona Pinnacles

Weather was perfect for photos of the pinnacles	Anne digging for minerals at the mud pit	Long shadows of evening
Sunset near Trona	The Geology Club is at it again, camping at the Trona Pinnacles and collecting mineral specimens at the 2004 Searles Lake Gem-O-Rama.	Club members keep hydrated while exploring the pinnacles

Camping at the Trona Pinnacles and the Searles Lake Gem-O-Rama
October 2003

Official Geo Club Model and VP Jen, takes time out of her busy schedule to pose at the Trona Pinnacles	Kevin with the Pinnacles behind him	Sunset at the Trona Pinnacles
Silhouette of the Pinnacles and two climbers	Geo Club members relaxing at the campsite	Paul directs as Kevin and Jen lift a chunk of Pink Halite from the brine pools
Paul (or is that Zoolander?) posing with the Pink Halite at Searles Lake Gem-O-Rama	Beautiful large Pink Halite crystals	A great example of Pink Halite's cubic structure

Geology Club Travels To The Grand Canyon, January 2003

Leaving Las Vegas	A snowy south rim	Kay looking thru the picture window at the rock tower on the south rim, Grand Canyon
A silhouette of Liz during sunset	Sunset on the south rim	Steve (our faithful photographer) at Marble Canyon

Geology Club Heads To The California Desert To Tour Rand Gold Mine and C.R. Briggs Gold Mine

Rand Mine Tour, April 20, 2002

C.R. Briggs Mine Tour, April 27, 2002


A 40 ton truck hauling spoils. Panimint Lake in the background	Textbook example of a low angle detachment fault along northeast wall of the pit.	Mine crew takes a lunch break in the shade of loader buckets. Boy do they look small!

Mine Geologist Denny Lang talks about blasting and bench mechanics within the pit.	Last minute details before entering the underground.	Craig hammering away in the underground.

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