***Week 7***

Tuesday, November 6.        Hand-back Midquarter Exam
                                              Basin and Range Province
                                              Grand Teton NP

Reading for Tuesday: Miller, p. 72-75.  Compare the timing and style of faulting in the Basin and Range with the Fold-Thrust Belt.  Try to figure out the geologic history of Grand Teton based on Figure 93—without looking at the sequence written on the left side of the diagram.

Thursday, November 8.    Basin and Range Province
                                            Grand Teton NP
                                            Death Valley NP

Reading for Thursday: Miller, p. 76-78.  Compare the geologic history of Death Valley, based on fig. 96 to that of the Tetons (Fig. 93).  Similarities?  Differences?






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