Mr. Monteza's ranch from the south.
Main shelter from the south.
Main shelter from the north.
East side of N-S trending hill southwest side of Mr. Monteza's pasture. Dr. Hyland and Dr. Hanley measured the top of the hill and dug a twenty inch deep test pit on top. Note prominant shoulder at base of hill. Terrace??
The start of a walk into the forest: Dr. Ballenger, Antonio, Ted and Dr. Hyland; Dean Cleveland and Mr. Monteza confer in the rear.
Drs. Ballenger and Birkhead taking pictures of tiny rainforest frogs.
Group picture.
Deeply weathered (saprolite) vertically lineated hornblende granitoid (quartz monzodiorite, K-COcg on the geologic map, above) nonconformably overlain by poorly sorted cobble conglomerate (Quaternary alluvium or possibly K-PAR in the geologic map, above). Location is several tens of feet above the floor of the Mamoni River valley less than a mile west of where we left the Suzuki.
Close-up of the vertically oriented hornblende crystals in the granitoid. This granitoid dominated the valley of the Mamoni in the vicinity of the camp. Metasedimentary and metaigneous (hornfelsed?) rocks were encountered a short way up the tributaries south of the camp.
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