Penny...where are you living? You could always get a taste of the field..wait for a F.O.P. (Friends of Pleistocene) field trip in the desert or not quite as dry parts of Nevada or some other remote place. Big campfire, maybe a guitar, and, hey, these are geologists, not seismologists...we drink rather than take crystal meth (that was a joke). It is really inexpensive...maybe $30 including campsite fee and guidebook (O.K., that was 1990). Then again, maybe that kind of geology is not your style...maybe you prefer your rock hammer to go "clink" rather than your shovel go "plouf".

Here in the heartland, the rocks are either too old or too young. I tend not to care what happened before there were mammals: I can't indentify. And, I'm not too in to the Holocene...not enough time to accumulate deformation....plus, not much deformation is accumulating anyway. I suppose it is interesting how rivers moved around before the levees...by the way...the Missouri is flooding again, but about 2 meters lower than the May floods, do no realy problem (maybe almost 3 m lower).
Chris