Abstract
In summer 2014, Southern Utah University’s field camp visited five national parks and forests to study five different tectonic settings in five weeks. These included: thick-skinned contraction of the Laramide Orogeny at Capitol Reef National Park; normal faulting due to salt tectonics of the Paradox Formation at Arches National Park; thin-skinned folding and thrusting of the Sevier Orogeny at Fish Lake National Forest and Kolob Canyon of Zion National Park; foreland sedimentary transitions in the Book’s Cliffs areas of Utah; thrusting and conjugate fracture development due to the gravitational collapse of the Marysvale volcanic field at Bryce Canyon National Park; and a metamorphic core complex at Great Basin National Park and Hendry’s Creek in the Northern Snake Range of Nevada. This article provides a brief summary and photographic tour of the students’ experiences studying each tectonic environment, and it highlights wonderful geological features exposed in our national parks.
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