In April of 2007 we ran a week long fieldschool for our second year students. The fieldschool focused on teaching the basic skills necessary to produce a geological map and took place in the Thunder Bay area. Later in the year we ran a second two week fieldschool for students entering their final year. Those photos can be viewed towards the bottom of the page

 

 

	Isabelle Therriault measuring strike and dip near Lake Tamblin on the Lakehead campus
Mapping the sediments near Lake Tamblin
	Roisin Kyne measuring dip and strike (or possibly taking a nap!)
Mapping around the ice on the Current River
	Jason Pattison demonstrating the correct use of a hammer
Daana Magi enjoying lunch in the sun
	Definitely not napping this time, Roisin Kyne works hard to get the dip and strike along the banks of the Current River
The group work to find the fault in the Rove sedimentary sequence along the Current River
	Isabelle Therriault relaxing at the end of the day

     

The senior field school in August 2007 saw the students working in areas of PGE mineralisation near Marathon, Archean volcanic rocks near Beardmore, and Midcontinent Rift related rocks south of the US border. The following photos are some of the highlights.

 

Mapping the pillow basalts at Poplar Point
	Mapping the pillow basalts at Poplar Point
	Kurt Kenny and Avery Henderson maping basalt flows near Schroeder, MN
Nathan Forsland measuring thedip of basalt flows near Schroeder
	Pipe vesicles at Sugarloaf Cover
	Liz Cook and Avery Henderson on basalt flows in Tofte Park on the shores of Lake Superior
	Examining the contact between a sedimentary sequence and the overlying basalt flow
Taking structural measurements
	John Keigher taking structural measurements