Departmental Field Trip To Baraboo, Wisconsin
Mid-Term Break, Spring Term, 2002

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Photos by Tim Vick and Matt Kuharic '02



Devil's Lake was flooding over the road in the state park due to recent rains. Would a van tow a water skier?


But we shouldn't leave the impression that the weather was gloomy. It was actually quite nice most of the time.


At LaRue Quarry Marshall, Buddy and Devin explain their version of the story.


Hi Trevor.

Mary and Ed led the discussion at the end of the Johnson Moraine Trail.


On to Parfreys Glen with Lisa, Katja and Lauren.


Tim tries to explain the subsurface interfaces between the rock layers in Parfreys Glenn but fails miserably...


so he reverts to an old trick, choreography, to demonstrate. The modern topography and stream gorge are represented by Joseph's and Ed's arms, while the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary is shown by Dave's and Lauren's arms, in this cross section adapted from a paper on a seismic refraction project Tim did in Parfreys Glen a number of years ago.


We visited "the shack" where Aldo Leopold wrote his famous book, A Sand County Almanac.


And Katja topped off the trip with a visit to the Coon Creek watershed in western Wisconsin. This watershed has been a case study in post-agricultural erosion and sedimentation.


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