Field Trip around Oklahoma State

Just got back from a field trip which took us to 3 locations around the state to see different types of rocks for my Earth's Past Climate class. It was a bit of an early start and there was lots of sitting in the mini bus but there were some interesting features to see. First we went to Edmond, the to just outside Yale and finally to Hitchcock. Here are a few things that I saw. It was a very hot day and the sky was completely cloudless providing no shelter when we were out on the rocks.




















First Stop Edmond, there was an oil well here as Oklahoma is one of the major oil producing states in the US. This rock is a permian sandstone.

Next stop Yale to look at the alternating types of rock from the Pennsylvannian time. The road here was very dusty and scary with nothing but dry fields around it a bit like being in asome kind of scary movie.

Final stop and we are near Hitchcock, with out the trees it looks a little bit like Mars. this rock is from the mid permian and has pieces of dolomite and gypsite in which are very pretty and I collected a few small pieces for my self.

After a long day though I was happy to get home and have a rest.