Photos from the 2002 White Sands Fall Field Conference: Day 1

All photographs approved for public release by White Sands Missile Range; distribution unlimited. OPSEC review completed on November 14, 2002.

The above statement should be used by any person that uses the photographs in presentations, articles, etc. in reference to the photographs. The photographs were taken by Dr. David L. Anderson, Environmental Stewardship Division.

DCP 0775 – Ascending the dunes at Stop 1 in White Sands National Monument.

DCP 0776 – Shadows pointing west toward the San Andres Mountains at White Sands National Monument.

DCP 0777 – Rip Langford discussing the origin of the white sands at White Sands National Monument on day 1, stop 1 (Day 3, stop 1 in guidebook – changed due to missile testing schedule on WSMR).

DCP 0778 – Participants returning to the caravan at White Sands National Monument.

DCP 0779 – Dan Koning assisted by Kate Giles at bonus stop along the Alamogordo Fault.

DCP 0780 – Lunch and lecture on the Mesozoic at Bull Gap on Day 1. Sierra Oscura in the background with the dip slope facing east.

DCP 0781 – Audience captivated by the discussion about the marvelous Moenkopi Formation at Bull Gap. Audience is seated on the Cretaceous Dakota Group.

DCP 0782 – Hiking up to the former headframe on the Damon Group at Mockingbird Gap. The mine accessed barite-fluorite-galena mineralization in the Yeso Formation.

DCP 0783 – Spencer Lucas pointing north toward the Bursum Hills from the dumps of the Damon Group.

DCP 0784 – Steve Cather discussing right-lateral displacements defined by piercing points at Mockingbird Gap on day 1. The south end of the Burro Hills in the background.

DCP 0785 – Virgil Lueth with help from Kate Giles discussing the geology of the Damon Group and barite-fluorite-galena deposits in general. Yeso Formation outcroppings in the background.

DCP 0786 – Participants discussing the geology of Mockingbird Gap. Sierra Oscura to the back right, Bursum Hills low center, Los Piños Mountains back left.

DCP 0787 – View of the Burro Hills in the front with the Sierra Oscura escarpment in rear.

DCP 0888 – View east across Mockingbird Gap.

DCP 0789 – View down the Damon Group glory hole.

DCP 0790 – Mineral collectors on the edge of the Damon Group glory hole. Fluorite, barite, galena, smithsonite, and hydrozincite were found during the stop.

DCP 0791 – Field Conference participants moseying back to the caravan at Mockingbird Gap.

DCP 0792 – Old structure of unknown use…

DCP 0793 – Dr. Spencer Lucas’ office at Mockingbird Gap.

DCP 0794 – Field conference participants assembling at the southern terminus of the 5 Ka Carrizozo lava flow.

DCP 0795 – Nelia Dunbar presenting her work on cosmogenic dating of the Carrizozo lava flow.

DCP 0796 – Field conference participants gathered at the southern terminus of the Carrizozo lava flow.

DCP 0797 – Surface features of the Carrizozo lava flow make sitting makes seating less than ideal!

DCP 0798 – San Andres mountains rising above the field conference stop at the terminus of the Carrizozo lava flow.

DCP 0799 – Marshland at the Malpais Spring. The spring issues from the base of the Carrizozo lava flow at the terminus of the flow. View is to the south, down the axis of the Tularosa Basin.

DCP 0800 – Marshland of the Malpais Spring area.

DCP 0801 – More marsh at Malpais Spring.