LOCATION: New England area

DATES: Alternate Spring semesters 

COURSE AND CREDITS:  Geol 4/51080 - Tectonics & Orogeny - 3 credits 

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

PURPOSE OF FIELD TRIP: Every other Spring Dr. Daniel Holm leads a five-day "oddyssey through orogeny" - a field trip to the New England area to look at the tectonic development of the northern Appalachians.  The field trip starts in the Catskills of New York, heads north to Lake George, cuts easward across central Vermont into New Hampshire and ends in central Massachusetts.  The students investigate features of the Taconic and Acadian orogenies, moving from the foredeep Catskill delta deposits in the west to the strongly deformed and metamorphosed hinterland region in the east and end with the Triassic rift basins which overprint the earlier orogenic structures. 

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

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