Photos by Tim Vick and members of the class

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Qing and Rebecca checking a vertical layer.

From the top of the trails, you could hardly see that the landscape was riddled with canyons. The Salton Sea is in the distance in the picture.

Rebecca figures out the dip of the Banana Creme Conglomerate. We gave the rock units our own names since we'd never seen a geologic map of the area and had no idea what the real names were.

Rebecca and Kelsey in a slot canyon in the metamorphic BlackAlicious Formation.

The BlackAlicious had white veins toward the bottom and pink layers higher up. Here Rebecca, Kelsey and Tim are for scale.

Ross, Pam and Mark check out the scarp (the u-shaped depression) of the San Andreas Fault as it goes through the sediments.

Sunday night we celebrated with a nice Mexican dinner in Indio.

Monday morning we hiked up a canyon in the Red Sugar Formation to see the unconformity with the basement rocks.

Kelsey hypothesized about the faulted boundary between the basement rocks and the Dark Chocolate Formation.

And at the San Andreas Fault, we had a discussion on the Red Hot Heat unit.

We became one with the desert.