So today, the mapping project we were working on took us past a few bluebirds nesting, a herd of maybe 15 prong horn antelope, and 2 or 3 small caves filled with bones. My friend found a broken canine tooth in one of the caves. I only saw 2 rattlesnakes today, sweet.
We finished up the mapping project today. It appears the faults I mentioned yesterday are connected at depth. I spent the last 5 hours trying to draw a cross section of what it all would look like.
We also checked out a cool spot along the Jefferson River today where Lewis and Clark once camped. They called the rocks they saw there "black granite". They could not have been more incorrect about what they saw. The rocks they were looking at are Lahood Fm. metamorphic conglomerates, which means they were originally sedimentary rocks rather than igneous as Lewis and Clark had imagined. Conglomerates are pretty cool rocks, especially this set of them. In the LaHood there are conglomerate clasts (meaning pieces of previous rocks washed out and eroded then deposited on either an alluvial fan or marine fan) the size of a small bus.
Breakfast today was horrible. I think the cooks attempted to make apple crepes but it ended up basically just being apples with almost no crepes. I had to switch to cereal to get enough food.
It looks like the rainy weather has broken for now. The last 2 days have been sunny and HOT. Just about everyday now, after lunch, I get really tired and start to lose focus because of the energy my body is spending on keeping myself cool. I am averaging about 4 liters of water consumption in the field each day, not including all the water I drink at the camp.
There is a short line for the computer so I am going to let the other people get on.
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