LOCATION: Southern Canada 

DATES: Alternate Fall semesters 

COURSE AND CREDITS: Geol 6/80095 (Selected Topics) 

SUGGESTED BACKGROUND COURSES: Physical and Historical Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Paleontology, Geomorphology, and Structural Geology. 

PURPOSE OF FIELD TRIP: Every other Fall Dr. Daniel Holm organizes a five-day traverse of southern Canada to examine the Kapuskasing crustal section and the Sudbury meteorite impact structure.  The trip starts on the eastern shore of Lake Superior in the Late Archean low-grade granite-greenstone belts.  Students traverse down the crust toward the west, observing how a nearly-complete section of crust changes with depth - structures, metamorphism, composition, etc.  The Kapuskasing section ends with investigating high grade granulites and deeply emplaced anorthosites.  Another day is spent looking at rocks formed and deformed by the 1850 Ma meteorite impact in Sudbury, Ontario.  World class shatter cones, impact breccia, pseudotachylite, fallback breccia, and Cu-Ni deposits  - all are investigated on this part of the trip. 

ESTIMATED FEES AND COSTS:
Personal expenses (food and lodging while traveling) 

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