Field Trips for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
The Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS) Divison organizes international field trips every two years
 2010 Southern Peru
Led by Professors Rob Clayton, Mark Simons, and Jean-Paul Ampuero. Many unanswered questions remain in southern Peru, such as how did the Andes grow ? And where first? And why, despite a geologic history of more than 200 million years of continuous subduction, did the South American margin not begin to grow high topography until about 50 million years ago? The trip was sponsored by Shirley Kliegel (learn more)
 2008
Taiwan
Led by Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac. Taiwan is a classic
example of an active mountain range with beautiful active
faults and a rich bedrock geology. Organized jointly with
the Institute of Earth Sciences (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
and the National Taiwan University (Taipei) (Guidebook) (learn more)
2006
Tien Shan
Led by Professors Jean-Philippe
Avouac and Rob Clayton with 20 students from Caltech
and several students from Nanjing University in China
participating. The trip was an introduction to the geology
of fold-and-thrust belts using the Tien Shans as an example.
A short summary of this trip by Elisabeth Nadin appeared
in Caltech
News. Photo: from
article by Elisabeth Nadin (learn more)
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