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Summer Field Camp-Geophysics Module
The UW Department of Geology and Geophysics operates a six-day-long geophysics module for the summer Geologic Field Camp. This module comprises taking gravity data around the surrounding mountains to test for the compensation mechanism and taking shallow refraction data to search for the overburden layer thickness and depth to the water table. Magnetic field data is also taken to look for shallow metallic objects.
The camp consists of taking data nearby Laramie until about 2 PM in the afternoon, followed by daily analysis of the data to be presented at 8:30 AM morning reports. Each group is graded on a report turned in at the end of the six days. View Flash photo gallery of this past summer's geophysics module.
Shallow refraction data collected by Summer Camp students during the Geophysics module.