A Walk Through Time: Gardner Canyon Geology
June 10
Gardiner, Montana
No
Karen Williams, Ph.D.
Adult
Field Seminars
Geology, Hiking
The north entrance of Yellowstone is a complex geologic area. Glaciers from the Gallatin range, the Yellowstone ice cap, and the Beartooth plateau interacted in this area during the last Ice Age creating glacial landforms and periodic glacial outburst floods. In addition to the glacial story, this area has been subject to folding and faulting, landslides and earthflows, and most recently the 2022 floods. In this field seminar, we will travel off trail along the edge of the Gardner River Canyon starting near Mammoth and past Slide Lake observing landforms and geologic units exposed in the canyon and hiking over landforms created by landslides and earthflows. We will make a large loop returning to Mammoth via trail.
About the instructors
Karen Williams is a geomorphologist with a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Montana State University. She has taught geomorphology at Montana State and led field trips and geology hikes for MSU, Montana Wilderness Association, and Yellowstone Forever. She has worked in glaciated landscapes ranging from the Yukon to Yellowstone. She also has over twenty years of experience in stream restoration and serves on the board of directors of the Clearwater Resource Council, the watershed conservation group of the Clearwater River in western Montana.
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A Walk Through Time: Gardner Canyon Geology Course Letter
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