Indian Peaks Virtual Field Trip Table of Contents | Virtual Field Trips and Studies Working Group | The Virtual Geography Department |
The field trip you are about to take investigates the altitudinal variation of vegetation and glacial geomorphology found in the Indian Peaks section of the Colorado Front Range. You'll be taking the field trip during the month of June, it's a bit more hospitable during the summer in this region. Take along a field journal (meaning your notebook) to enter the requested field observations or print off several ( 8 or 9) journal pages. Environmental data for temperature, wind speed, and insolation are typical June averages and were gathered from a variety of sources (Barry, 1973; Losleben, 1983; Olyphant, 1985). Analysis of the field data will be undertaken at the conclusion of the field trip.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of the field trip you will be able to:
Describe how the vegetation relates to location (elevation) and climate.
Describe how the following alpine glacial and periglacial landforms are created:
- aretes
- U-shaped valley
- cirque
- tarn
- paternoster lake
- moraines
- rock glaciers
Created by Michael Ritter (mritter@uwsp.edu) Last revised June 23, 1997