More GPS field work

Another moon picture, I took a bunch of these. I am never satisfied, but I thing that is due to the fact that I want the pictures to turn out like looking through a telescope.















If the Jeep was any wider it wouldn't have made it. This was apperently an old wagan trail.















Just around the corner from the last picture















It was windy at the first GPS site we picked up. (yes it really was that windy) We estimated that winds were gusting to at least 40 miles an hour, possibly more. It blew my glasses off my face. That is Dave Love head field geologist for the NM Bureau of geology (If I remeber right his grandrather was the once that discovered Love waves (a type of surface wave produced by and earthquake)















The GPS station we were picking up, and John trying to fill in the field nots without the wind ripping all of the pages out of the notebook















Some Petroglyps that were in the canyon we drove through. The spanish apperently put the crosses on all the rock were they found petroplyps. I havn't had time to see if I can bring out the petroglyps any better.











































I don't know if this is from hte spanish or not. It looks like it is fairly old though, and took a lot of work to carve.















This is a picture of the road through Escondida(just north of Socorro). It looks like a snow plow came through the way the mud is piled up along side the road. The mud is from the flash floods this summer, and Escondid was the worst hit by the flooding. The road looks like this through much of the area, sometimes worse when the road crosses large arroyos.

I had to do some fieldwork for a GPS campain survey. The survey is looking for uplift do to the Socorro magma body. Here are some pictures I took while doing the field work. I would have taken more, but I had to use my camera to take pictures of the GPS deployments since the camera we were supposed to be using for that quit working.















This is an arroyo that we crossed last year to install a seismomter. It was washed out a little after the monsoon season this year.















This is the same crossing from the other side. It is now over 8 feet deep now. There was another arroyo we drove up to get to one of the sites. It was probably 5 feet deep and 20 to 40 feet wide. When we climed out, we noticed that all of the plants in the valley had sand/mud bars behind them. It turns out that during the height of the flood the whole valley was full of water. Unfortunatly I didn't have room to take a picture of that place.
















These are some petrogliphs near one of the stations. There are 4 different petrogliphs in that picture.















A close up of one of the faces and the snake in the picture above.















A close up of the other two. A face and some kind of animal















Here is a petrogliph of what looks like a sun. It was a few hundred yards from the others.















Just playing around trying to figure out my camera















Dito (its a branch in front of the moon in case you are wondering)