PEDD 9644 - The Geology of Yellowstone Country Part 1

Course Description

On our first day we will meet in Livingston, Montana and head east toward Big Timber. Our first stops will include a discussion of the Mesozoic landscape of Montana, including the dinosaur-bearing Hell Creek Formation. At Big Timber we will head south, drive up Boulder River Canyon making stops on our way to Natural Bridge Falls. We will return to McLeod and loop back to Livingston along the West Boulder River. We will again meet in Livingston on Day 2 and head south driving along the Yellowstone River through Paradise Valley. Our stops will include features of the Yellowstone Outlet Glacier, Petrified trees of the Tom Miner basin, 3-billion-year-old rocks in Yankee Jim Canyon, Devils Slide, and a boulder field deposited by glacial outburst floods. We will end the day near Gardiner, MT.

*SELECT PEDD 9644 - 003 for non-credit participants.

*SELECT PEDD 9644 - 004 to earn 3.0 PDUs.