In September, Ty Huth (red hat) and Ben Passey (olive hat) met up with Amy Ellwein (white hat), Thure Cerling (no hat) and Dave Marchetti (green hat) in the Capitol Reef / Thousand Lakes Plateau area to study and collect laminated soil carbonate rinds.  This is part of an NSF-funded project to examine the use of laminated carbonate rinds for reconstructing late Pleistocene paleoclimate and vegetation distributions.

Ty at the campsite using a diamond-blade wet saw to section a carbonate rind.

Overturned Boulder with Carbonate Rind