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Welcome to the Geology Department Web Page!
(Click on photo to enlarge)
So-called Outcrop of Death in Gunnison County Colorado. These Paleozoic
rock units are part of a recumbently folded footwall in a series of Cretaceous
thrust fault sheets. These thrust sheets are associated with the Laramide Orogeny partially
responsible for the uplift of the Rocky Mountains. Individuals in picture are: (blue shirt)
Professor James H. Stout (University of Minnesota); (white shirt) Thomas C. Brudos
(Leighton and Associates Los Angeles) and (yellow shirt) author.
Mission
Statement (Geology Department)
The Department of Geology at Minneapolis Community and
Technical College
offers geology courses of the highest quality to science and non-science majors.
Through classroom instruction and discussion, laboratory exercises and
directed study the department’s goals are to prepare each student for
advancement in his or her chosen field of study.
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