New Field Assistant

In April my student, Kelly, and I went out to Arizona to start her MSc project. Kelly is working on a Cretaceous coral-algal-rudist reef in Arizona...

and we took out a new field assistant to help us map the outcrop!

Kelly is a great pilot and took some great shots of the rocks!

Droning aside, this is a pretty awesome reef! There were lots of great corals...

 

... as well as some really amazing rudists!

Sometimes there are even corals and rudists together!

Kelly will also be tackling this very interesting facies with algae/microbes/stromatolites, corals, and carbonate sediments! Microdigitate stromatolites on a coral!

In addition, there were some textbook borings in one of the corals!

We also found a couple of nice ammonites...

...and some forams.

Panorama!

And some gratuitous shots of the area because it was very pretty (although I could do with 50% less spiky plants!)

Yay fieldwork!