Keck News & Announcements

Presentations by Keck Geology Consortium Participants at The Geological Society of America 131st Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ

The Belize project was an overwhelming success thanks to our 9-student team of rising sophomores and our dedicated peer mentor.

Keck Montana conquered the muddy Cretaceous in exquisite fashion.

Team Yellowstone had a successful and productive field season on the Gallatin River and Blacktail Deer Creek.

Team Wyoming placing 56 million-year-old fossils into geological context in the Bighorn Basin

Team Wyoming measured 600+ meters of stratigraphic section comprising early Paleogene lakes, rivers, swamps, and deltas

Caroline, Charley, Curtis, and Madison have all been pushing hard to finish theses, classwork, and preparations for the upcoming GSA Cordilleran Section meeting in Portland, Oregon

Team Nevada discovered two new soil-stratigraphic exposures Team Nevada discovered two new soil-stratigraphic exposures with younger, presumably late-Pleistocene soil profiles

Eight Gateway students spent two weeks in the wilds of Glacier National Park

Students started the project in Oberlin, learning about metamorphic geology, and collecting major element data using SEM/EDS