Panamá Expedition, 1999
Goals:
Small-scale map of Panama
Western Panama.
Central Panama
PPT Slide
Geologic map of El Barú
View to east across apron of 600 year old lahar.
Summit area of El Barú
Summit of El Barú.
View to the west from the El Barú summit across the recent summit crater.
Breached dacite dome in recent summit caldera.
Breached dome, El Barú summit.
Looking west from El Barú through dwarf vegetation.
El Barú summit
Vegetation on the summit
More vegetation on the summit
Volcanic agglomerate just off the summit
Ride down the summit road.
Vegetation on the summit road.
Boquete, east side of El Barú
Columnar andesites
Volcanic agglomerate, Rio Caldera Valley.
Hotel Fundadores, Boquete
Central Panama.
El Valle
Precaldera pyroclastics in caldera wall.
Close-up of precaldera pyroclastics
Ash fall tuffs and lahar deposits
Tuffs with development of channel.
Close-up of channel
Towards the Rio Mamoni
A Chepo bus
Cataract on Rio Mamoni, east of El Valle.
Potholes in the granitoid.
Water sculpted granitoid, Rio Mamoni rapids.
Pool on the San José
Granitoid with xenoliths on the San Jose
San Jose rounded outcrops and boulders.
Hijinks at the bus stop.
Bridge over the Rio Corpus Cristi.
View from Corpus Cristi into Mamoni.
The Rio Mamoni Road
Rosa with colantro-eating varmint.
Queb Zahina.
Queb Zahina Fault zone.
Basalt dike cuts fractured metasediment.
Fractured qtz. monzonite Queb Zahina valley.
Queb Zahina Valley
Fractured gabbro up the Rio Mamoni.
Penecontemporaneous(?) folding, Panamerican Highway road cut west of Chepo.
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