Fall, 2008 - Structural Geology Field Trip to the Great Valley and New Jersey Highlands

Students from Dr. Gray's Structural Geology class travelled to examine structures in metamorphic and igneous rocks of the Great Valley and New Jersey Highlands Provinces of the Appalachians over October 3-5. They studied metamorphic foliations in slates, marbles, and gneisses and examined a wide range of fault zone types including: calc-mylonites, mylonites, and brittle faults with epidote, quartz, calcite and chlorite slickenfibers. During the NJ portion of the trip they visited the world famous Sterling Hill fluorescent mineral deposit and mining museum. The trip was capped with a visit to the Taconic Unconformity in Schuylkill Gap, PA and a discussion of the tectonic framework of the Appalachians.

Trip Participants: Dr. Mary Beth Gray, Ed Bauer ('09), Eileen Belfield ('10), Kristi Grandy ('09), Eric Lynch ('10), Cullen Kortyna ('11) and Lauren Hall ('10).

Photos provided by Lauren Hall ('10).

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