Advanced Field Course 2009
Geological and Geophyiscal Mapping and Interpretation
Dates: June 20th through July 17th 2009
Earth and Planetary Science 118
University of California, Berkeley taught in Wise River, Montana
Instructors: George Brimhall Questions: brimhall@berkeley.edu Syllabus Photos 2007 Photos 2008
Doug Dreger
Pre-requisites: EPS 50 (Planet Earth) and EPS 101 (Field Geology & Digital Mapping) and consent of Instructors
Planning Meeting Personal Conduct Code Mariah's Challenge 
Objectives, Culture, and Reading List
Required Consent Form Required Emergency Data Dietary Restrictions
Safety First Policy General Field Safety Safety and Security Chain GSA 2009 Geological Timescale
Digital Mapping Methods GeoMapper © Home Page Publications on GeoMapper Friends of Field Geology
Location Major Topics Supplies and Equipment email & Communications
Locator Grid 
Radio Use in the Field 
Lightning Detection 
Water Purification 
Phones, Personal cars, and email Internet Policy
Daily Routine and Communication Off-Limit Travel Routes Drivers Outline of Report Petrologic Reference 
Photo Gallery Montana Field Camp 2003 (Jerry Creek Base Camp) Photo Gallery Montana Field Camp 2005 (Clementine Base Camp)
Photo Galleries of Past Berkeley Field Camps: 1981 1983 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1995 1999 2001
Wildlife, Mapping, and your days off Bear Spray Use (USGS)
Working Near Bears
Skunks 
Mountain Lions 
Bear Spray Animal Tracks and Scat
Lectures and Access Base Camp Facilities Butte Spots to Visit
Lecture 1: Roadmap for course Global processes
Lecture 3: Paleography, Stratigraphy, and Glaciation Blakey's Animations
Lecture 4: Glacial geology and the Missoula Flood
Lecture 5: Permian age phosphate deposits and paeogeography
Lecture 6: Layered Mafic Intrusives and Stillwater Complex Pt-Pd deposit
Lecture 7: Laser Surveying and elevayion control for gravity survey
Lecture 8: Porphyry Cu and Mo deposits and environmental geochemistry
Lecture 9: Epicontineal (eperic) seaways, river evolution, coal, oil and gas resources
Digital Data Files Used:
71/2 Minute Topographic Quadrangles Map GEO Files Geo Topos Map North South DOQQs GEO Dillon Sheet
Files Map Group Lists File Names
Vector (grp) grp wrcn
Raster (bmp) RGP GLAC GRAV HIGH MAGN TECT
DRG (Geotiff) drl Dillon 1x2 degree Quad Geology Pioneer Mts Geology Highlands Mts Geology
GEO topo WR GEO topo Pioneer Mts GEO topo Dillon 2 degree
Dewey Quad NAIP (1m) Orthophotos
Shapefiles (shp) shl EarthQuake Epicenters with Depth Labels