April 6^th through11^th Ammonite’s Managing Partner Skip Hobbs participated in a 5-day geological field trip to Death Valley that was sponsored by the Geological Society of America Foundation.  Skip is a GSA Fellow.  Hobbs had never been to Death Valley and said that the trip had been on his “bucket list”.  The trip not only focused on the well-exposed complex regional geology, but also on the unique Mohave Desert ecosystems.

Fieldtrip participants at the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, the home of the endangered Devils Hole pupfish that lives in a single sinkhole.

Dr. Darrel Cowen explains the origin of a Cryogenian age drop stone deposited
by ice in deepwater turbidite 700 million years ago.

A lovely Mohave Desert landscape.

Skip at the lowest elevation in the United States.