Field Trips
PREMEETING
- 1. Geomorphology, Soils, Landscape Evolution, and Land Use in The Virginia Piedmont and Blue Ridge.
Cullen Sherwood, L. Scott Eaton, James Madison University;
Greg Hancock, College of William & Mary.
- This two-day field trip will examine soils and landforms across the diverse geologic terrain of the western Piedmont and Blue Ridge in north-central Virginia and place those observations in a broader framework of landscape evolution from the late Cenozoic to the modern.
- > Leaves at 8 a.m. on Fri., 12 March, from Best Western Hotel, Ruckersville, Virginia; returns to Ruckersville by 2 p.m. on Sat., 13 March.
> Cost: US$245; includes transportation, lodging for Fri. night, and field guide. Meals not provided, but will be available for purchase on-site. Max: 24; min.: 10.
- 2. Geology Trails in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, New Jersey–Pennsylvania.
Jack Epstein, U.S. Geological Survey
- This one-day trip is targeted mainly for earth-science educators and Pennsylvania geologists needing to meet state-mandated education requirements for licensing professional geologists. The trip will include an overview discussion of structure, stratigraphy, geomorphology, glacial geology, and human history within the gap. It will be followed by hiking a choice of several trails, including a possible long hike to the top of Kittatinny Mountain. The group will meet at a designated local motel the night before the trip.
- > Meet at the Pocono Inn, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, on the evening of Fri., 12 March; end at Delaware Water Gap by 5:30 p.m. on Sat., 13 March (Note: additional 4-hour drive to Baltimore).
> Cost: US$190; includes transportation, lunch both days, lodging on Fri., and field guide. Max: 6; min.: 6.
- 3. Tectonic Evolution of the Peach Bottom Area, South-Central Pennsylvania.
Rodger T. Faill, Pennsylvania Geological Survey; Robert C. Smith II, Pennsylvania Geological Survey; William D. Sevon, retired.
- The Peach Bottom area in the western Piedmont of southeast Pennsylvania has long been considered a regional syncline, with the Peach Bottom Slate belt lying in its core. The 12-km-wide area comprises four thrust blocks that telescope widely spaced, roughly coeval parts of the lower Paleozoic Octoraro basin offshore of the Laurentian continent. This one-day trip will present a new stratigraphy for the rocks that were described as Peters Creek and Wissahickon Formations a century ago.
- > Leaves at 7:30 a.m. on Sat., 13 March, from the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel; returns by 5 p.m.
> Cost: US$50; includes transportation, lunch, and field guide. Max: 27; min.: 10.
- 4. Magmatic Layering and Intrusive Plumbing in the Jurassic Morgantown Sheet, Central Atlantic Magmatic Province.
LeeAnn Srogi, West Chester University; Loretta Dickson, Lock Haven University; Meagen Pollock, College of Wooster; Ben Edwards, Dickinson College; Tim Lutz, West Chester University.
- On this one-day trip, we will explore two excellent exposures of the Jurassic diabase of the Morgantown Sheet, located in southeastern Pennsylvania between the Newark and Gettysburg basins. The Morgantown Sheet is part of a 201 million year old large igneous province, the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, comprising shallow-level intrusions and lava flows of basaltic composition associated with failed continental rifting. The stops will provide opportunities to debate the origins of magmatic layering and the “plumbing” of a shallow-level magmatic system.
- > Leaves at 6:30 a.m. on Sat., 13 March, from the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel; returns by 5 p.m.
> Cost: US$80; includes transportation, lunch, and field guide. Max: 24; min: 10.
- 5. Coastal Processes and Engineering at Assateague Island.
Sean Cornell, Shippensburg University; Cynthia Venn, Bloomsburg University.
- The two-day field trip will include stops at Ocean City, Maryland, the northern end of Assateague Island, and the south end of Assateague and on Wallops Island proper. The primary emphasis will be on coastal processes and the history of coastal engineering. Overnight will be at the Marine Science Consortium at Wallops Island, Virginia.
- > Leaves at 6 p.m. on Thurs., 11 March, from the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel; returns Sat., 13 March, by 5 p.m.
> Cost: US$205; includes transportation, meals, lodging for Thurs. & Fri. nights, and field guide. Max: 19; min: 10.
POSTMEETING
- 6. A Traverse of Proterozoic to Paleozoic Laurentia, Virginia Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge.
Lynn Fichter, Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University; Chuck Bailey, College of William & Mary; Bill Burton, U.S. Geological Survey.
- This two-day field trip will encompass an east-to-west traverse of the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces of western Virginia and West Virginia and examine excellent exposures of basement to supracrustal rocks in the context of both stratigraphic and structural principles to gain an improved perspective of the Appalachian orogenic cycle from the Proterozoic to the Paleozoic. The trip will also discuss the pedagogy of integrating stratigraphy, structure, and tectonics in the field.
- > Leaves at 6 p.m. on Tues., 16 March, from the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel; returns Thurs., 18 March, by 10 p.m.
> Cost: US$270; includes transportation, lunch each day, lodging for Tues. & Wed. nights, and field guide. Max: 24; min: 8.
- 7. The Early through Late Pleistocene Record in the Susquehanna River Basin.
Duane Braun, Bloomsburg University.
- The two-day trip will travel up the Susquehanna Valley examining the early to late Pleistocene erosion features and deposits with a general overview of the Appalachian Mountain landscape. The journey will start in the lower Susquehanna bedrock gorge in the Piedmont, cross the Valley and Ridge, and reach the edge of the Plateau.
- > Leaves at 7:30 a.m. on Wed., 17 March, from the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel; returns Thurs., 18 March, by 6 p.m.
> Cost: US$235; includes transportation, lunch and dinner each day, lodging for Wed. night, and field guide. Max: 24; min: 8.
- 8. Stratigraphy of Calvert, Choptank, and St. Marys—Chesapeake Bay Area.
L.W. (Buck) Ward, Virginia Museum of Natural History; Dave Powers, U.S. Geological Survey.
- This trip will start in Baltimore with an overnight at Solomons, Maryland. Field trip stops will be along the Chesapeake Bay to Solomons.
- > Leaves at 6 p.m. on Tues., 16 March, from the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel; returns Thurs., 18 March, by 5 p.m.
> Cost: US$435; includes transportation, all meals each day, lodging for Tues. & Wed. nights, and field guide. Max: 20; min: 10.
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