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Day Excursions: Family and Adult Field Trips
Hard Core Earth Samples
Saturday, August 9, 9:30 a.m.
$25 members, $32 nonmembers
Want to see what is deep beneath Earth’s surface? Join HMNS on a tour of the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Houston Research Center, which houses hundreds of thousands of core samples from deep within Earth. Learn what the core samples tell researchers about our planet by looking at a variety of spectacular cores illustrating various siliciclastic and carbonate depositional environments, such as deep-water mass transport deposits, paleo-karsts, valley fills, fluvial and shelf sandstones, and Cretaceous reef—this research center houses over 600,000 boxes of cores and cuttings from all over the world. This half-day field trip will include a tour of the research facility and as well as time spent examining the cores with geologist Beverly Blakeney DeJarnett.
Directions to the facility will be e-mailed prior to trip. Participants will meet at the University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology's Houston Research Center: 11611 West Little York Rd., Houston, Texas 77041.
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