The 1996 New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference

Mount Washington

Field Trips

All trips will be by automobile or van, with pooling encouraged. Each NEIGC participant is responsible for bringing lunch each day and, especially for the trips on Mt. Washington, suitable gear for extreme weather conditions including high winds and freezing temperatures. Field trip leaders will make the judgement on adequacy of equipment for these excursions. Read the field trip descriptions very carefully!! Specific questions about the trips should be directed to the trip leaders.


Friday, September 27, 1996

A1. Albee Hill, Foster Hill, Partridge Lake to Highland Croft, New Hampshire: Evidence for a stratigraphic succession and the absence here of the Piermont-Frontenac allocthon - Douglas W. Rankin, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926, Reston, VA 22092, 703-648-6903

A2. Geology of the Chickwolnepy Intrusions - Tom Fitz, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, tfitz@udel.edu

A3. Bedrock Geology of the Presidential Range, New Hampshire - J. Dykstra Eusden (deusden@abacus.bates.edu), Andrew de Garmo, Peter Friedman, John M. Garesche, Adam Gaynor, Jennifer Granducci, Aaron H. Johnson, Jenna-Marie Maconochie, Steven P. Peters, Jonathan B. O'Brien, and Beth L. Widmann, Department of Geology, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine 04240

A4. Continental and Alpine Glacial Sequence and Mass Wasting on Mt. Washington - P. Thompson Davis, Department of Natural Sciences, Bentley College, Waltham, MA 02154-4705, pdavis@bentley.edu, 617-891-3479; Brian K. Fowler, Mount Washington Observatory, PO Box 2310, North Conway, NH 03860; David Thompson, ENSTRAT, 313 Boston Post Road West, Marlborough, MA 01752, 508-460-6100.

A5. Surface Geophysical Survey, NHDOT Patrol Shed #124, Franconia, New Hampshire - Jonathon Puliafico and Roger Cunhui Yang, Hager-Richter Geoscience, Inc., Salem, NH 03079, h-r-do@mv.mv.com, 603-893-9944.

Welcome Party and Registration, 6:30 - 10:00 pm, Wildcat Ski Area, Route 16, Pinkham Notch


Saturday, September 28, 1996

Registration, 7:00 - 8:00 am, Wildcat Ski Area, Route 16, Pinkham Notch

B1. Stratigraphic Basis for the Piermont-Frontenac Allocthon, Bath, New Hampshire to Bradford, Vermont - Robert H. Moench, US Geological Survey, MS 935, Federal Center, Denver, CO, 80225.

B2. Stratigraphic and Structural Traverse of Mount Moriah, New Hampshire - Tim Allen, Geology Dept., Keene State College, Keene, NH 03435-2001, 603-358-2571, tallen@keene.edu

B3. Polymetamorphism in Western Maine: Mineralogic, petrologic and textural manifestations and regional geologic implications - Charles V. Guidotti, University of Maine at Orono, Orono ME 04469; J. T. Cheney, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, (jtcheney@amherst.edu); C. Tom Foster, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242; Darrell J. Henry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.

B4. Recession of the Late Wisconsinan Ice Sheet from the Northwestern White Mountains, New Hampshire - Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, State House Station 22, Augusta, ME 04333-0022, woodrow.b.thompson@state.me.us, and Brian K. Fowler, Mount Washington Observatory, PO Box 2310, North Conway, NH 03860

B5. Petroleum contaminant plume delineation: Investigative field techniques using VibraDrilling, MicroWells and field laboratory analysis - John C. Swallow, Pine & Swallow Associates, Inc., 867 Boston Road, Groton, MA 01540, 508-448-9511, and Gregory A. Kirby, 39 Valleyview Drive, Merrimack, NH 03054, 603-429-8207.

B6. The Mount Jasper Lithic Source, Berlin, New Hampshire - Stephen Pollock (pollock@portland.caps.maine.edu), Dept. of Geosciences, and Nathan Hamilton, Dept. of Geography & Anthropology, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME. 04038, 207-780-5353; and Richard Boivert, New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, Concord, NH.

B7. Bedrock Geology of the Eastern White Mountain Batholith, North Conway Area, New Hampshire John W. Creasy, Depatrment of Geology, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 04240, jcreasy@bates.edu

Reception and Annual Banquet, 6:30-10:00 pm, Wildcat Ski Area, Route 16, Pinkham Notch


Sunday, September 29, 1996

C1. The Monroe fault between Comerford Dam and North Concord, Vermont: a west-directed, premetamorphic thrust fault carrying a Silurian sheeted dike complex over rocks of the Connecticut Valley Trough - Douglas W. Rankin, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926, Reston, VA 22092, 703-648-6903, with a section on geochronology by R.D. Tucker, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130.

C2. Petrology and Stable Isotope Systematics of Migmatites in Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire - Tim Allen, Geology Dept., Keene State College, Keene, NH 03435-2001, 603-358-2571, tallen@keene.edu

C3. Rare Element and Miarolitic Pegmatites of Northern New Hampshire - Carl A. Francis, Harvard Mineralogical Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, francis@eps.harvard.edu; Michael A. Wise, Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, mnhms015@sivm.si.edu; Robert W. Whitmore, 334 South Stark Highway, Weare, N.H. 03281.

C4. Deglaciation of the Lower Ammonoosuc and Upper Connecticut Valleys near Littleton, New Hampshire: On the Trail of Goldthwait, Antevs, Crosby and Lougee - Jack Ridge, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., 02155, 617-627- 3494; Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey, State House Station 22, Augusta, ME 04333-0022, woodrow.b.thompson@state.me.us, and Brian K. Fowler, Mount Washington Observatory, PO Box 2310, North Conway, NH 03860.

C5. Relationship between ductile deformation and granitic magma transfer: Tumbledown Mountain area, west-central Maine - Gary Solar, Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, solar@glue.umd.edu

NEIGC 1996


Last Modified July 10, 1996

Kilburn is administered by Tim Allen, (tallen@keene.edu)