Clinton Field Trip Report

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Introduction On Saturday, March 12, 2011, about thirty students Geography 213 at Simon Fraser University had a two-day field trip in British Columbia. The main objectives of our field trip were to acquire skills as a geomorphologic detective and to make inferences from field observations on mass movement by multiple working hypotheses. During this trip, there were lots of activities to do and some ideas such as the impact of glaciations to pick up. In this field trip we took the bus mainly along the Trans-Canada Highway from Burnaby Mountain through variable topography and climate. The trip began in lower mainland, and passed through the Sumas valley. After the first two stops, we went to northeast to finish three stops near Hope. Then, we went a long trip northward to the Thompson Valley to finish 4 stops. And we had overnight in Clinton at the Clinton Lodge. The second day, we went to the most north stop in this field, and then we finished the rest of fours stops near Thompson valley. These first five stops located at coast mountain range. It dominated by plutonic and igneous rock. It’s wet and mild. After entering Drynoch, the region was Interior. It dominated by Volcanic, and sedimentary rock. It’s much hotter and arid than the Coast Mountain range region. Since different geology and climate produces different landforms, the vegetation and the observation targets are different. On the West of Fraser Valley, the majority of the landform was Coast Mountain. Vegetation was dominated by maple trees, pine trees. On the East side, the majority of the landform was smoothed plateau. Vegetation was dominated by bush, Bunchgrass. Stop 2: Sumas Valley 2.1 Location The second stop of the field trip was Sumas Valley. It’s coordinated was 49°03’21’’ N, 122°10’45’’W. As part of the Fraser Valley, it

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