The Mountain Shear Zone is located near the town of Mountain, Wisconsin. (HA! I bet you didn’t know there was a Mountain, Wisconsin!). The shear zone formed during the Proterozoic Penokean orogeny (continental collision).
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- Deformed granite gneiss, the star attraction of the Mountain Shear Zone.
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- A basaltic dike (dark horizontal band in center of photo) intrudes the granite gneiss.
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- Juk likes to collect big samples!
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- Dan, juk, and Dyanna make and get coordinates for tracings of detailed deformation features in the rocks.
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- The scenery in Mountain is pretty in the fall.
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- Wildlife in Mountain- a porcupine.
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- More wildlife in Mountain- a big toad.