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Some 2009 Meeting Photos
Philipsburg Area

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The 2009 Field Conference was centered on Philipsburg. A selection of memories from the meeting is given here.
 
(Left) Katie McDonald led a trip to examine the Cambrian Flathead/Silver Hill contact in the valley of Boulder Creek. (Right) Honest! They are this thick. Don Winston on an outcrop of the Precambrian McNamera Formation in the valley of the South Fork of Boulder Creek.
Photos by Mike Stickney
 
(Left) Post field trip discussions over beer and dinner in the Philipsburg city park. Photo by Mike Stickney. (Right) Betty Skipp accepts the TRGS Hammer Award for a career of contributions to the geology of the Northern Rockies. Photo by Marie Marshall Garsjo.
 
(Left) Jeff and Larry approach the great unconformity in the Anaconda Range. (Right) Jim Sears points to a sill intruding the Cretaceous Carter Creek Formation in the valley of Little Blackfoot River.
Photos by Mike Stickney
 
(Left) Don Winston displays a fossil of his own footprint found in the Belt. (Right) Dick Berg, leader of geologists and other animals. Photos by Marie Marshall Garsjo.
 
(Left)Jim Sears and the Cretaceous. (Right)Dick Berg's sapphire trip. Photos by Liz Younggren.
 
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