South California-Nevada field trip
My post-doc advisor, Cin-Ty Lee, took me on a field trip that was originally designed for the undergrads to give me more experiences in the field. This four-day field trip started from San Diego and finished in Las Vegas, and covered from forearc sedimentary sequence to backarc rifting settings.
![On the beach at night.](/images/photography/full/DSC01913.jpg)
Lunch at a camping site.
![Walking on a street in San Juan, after dinner.](/images/photography/full/DSC01924.jpg)
Student taking notes for the class project.
![Walking on a street in San Juan, after dinner.](/images/photography/full/DSC01988.jpg)
Discussion by an obsidian outcrop.
![Walking on a street in San Juan, after dinner.](/images/photography/full/DSC01973.jpg)
Waiting.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC01992.jpg)
Lavas from mud volcanos.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC02007.jpg)
Cin-Ty and Raj.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC02029.jpg)
Salt? Snow? In the southern California desert, salts from weathered moutain rocks accumulate in dried lakes and rivers.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC02039.jpg)
Raj looking at a piece of salt.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC02033.jpg)
Cin-Ty joked about taking a piece of desert salt back to Houston for cooking…
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC02023.jpg)
Granite climbing.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC01934.jpg)
Class on a cliff.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/P1100629.jpg)
A tortoise in the Joshua Tree National Park.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/P1100638.jpg)
James on a basaltic lava outcrop.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC02053.jpg)
A light beam in a lava tube.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC02074.jpg)
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/P1100649.jpg)
Red Canyon National Recreation Area in Las Vegas.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC01979.jpg)
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC02083.jpg)