Summer Field Camp

The Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, offers a comprehensive, capstone, six-week, six-credit summer geology field camp class.  The focus of the course will be to develop advanced field skills, including rock description, generation of geologic maps, and illustrating the geometries of deformed rocks with cross-sections.  Through a series of mapping-based exercises, field camp students will gain the ability to understand complex field relations in three dimensions.  This is enhanced by the incredible geologic setting of these exercises, which includes several world-class geologic sites in eastern Nevada, in the heart of the Basin-and-Range province, and in western Nevada, where the Basin-and-Range meets the Sierra Nevada. A detailed course syllabus is available for 2017.

For approximately four weeks, we will utilize our permanent field station in Ruth, Nevada, near the town of Ely.  Approximately one week will be spent in  Kodachrome Basin in Utah.  Especially memorable areas that we will visit include Great Basin National Park, the Snake Range metamorphic core complex, and Lake Tahoe.

Our Alumni Include

Students from all over the U.S. have participated in the University of Nevada's Summer Field Camp: