All trips will be by automobile or van, with pooling encouraged. NEIGC participants are responsible for bringing lunch each day and suitable clothing and foot wear for the weather. 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.Departure Times and Places for all trips were updated on September 8, 1997. See the individual trip descriptions.
A1. DEFORMATION OF THE TACONIC SEQUENCE, WESTERN VERMONT AND EASTERN NEW YORK Leaders: Art Goldstein, Yu Chang Chan, Jim Pickens, Jean Crespi
A2. NAPPES, GNEISS DOMES, AND PLUTONIC SHEETS OF WEST- CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE Leader: Tim Allen
A3. STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN SEQUENCE AT CROWN POINT STATE PARK, NEW YORK Leaders: Charlotte Mehrtens and Bruce Selleck
A4. WILSON-CARBON CYCLE LINKAGES: THE lAPETAN CYCLE AND EARLY PALEOZOIC CLIMATE Leader: Doug Reusch
A5. GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL CHAMPLAIN VALLEY, VERMONT Leader: Craig Heindel
A6.A TRANSECT ACROSS THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY SEQUENCE IN EAST-CENTRAL VERMONT Leaders: Thomas R. Armstrong, Gregory J. Walsh, and Frank S. Spear
Welcome Party and Registration, 6:30 - 10:00 pm, Long Trail Inn, top of Sherburne Pass, Route 4
Registration, 7:00 - 8:00 am, Pico Ski Area, Route 4, Sherburne
B1. THE APPALACHIAN FORELAND AS SEEN IN NORTHERN VERMONT Leaders: Rolfe Stanley and Stephen Wright; Coleaders: Todd Martin, Jim Talcott, Ben Copans
B2. PLUTONIC AND HYPABYSSAL INTRUSIONS OF THE EARLY CRETACEOUS CUTTINGSVILLE COMPLEX, VERMONT Leaders: G. Nelson Eby and J. Gregory McHone
B3. BASEMENT-COVER RELATIONSHIPS IN SOUTHERN VERMONT Leaders: Paul Karabinos and James B. Thompson, Jr.
B4. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE DIMENSION STONE INDUSTRY EASTERN VERMONT GRANITE BELT Leaders: Dorothy Richter and Donald Murray
B6. STRATIGRAPHY, GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE BASEMENT AND COVER ROCKS OF THE CHESTER AND ATHENS DOMES Leaders: Nicholas Ratcliffe, Thomas Armstrong, and John Aleinikoff
Reception and Annual Banquet, 6:30-10:00 pm, Pico Ski Area, Route 4, Sherburne
C1. HOW DOES NEW HAMPSHIRE CONNECT TO VERMONT? Leaders: J. B. Thompson, Jr., J. L. Rosenfeld, J. C. Hepburn, and W. E. Trzcienski
C2. STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE ORWELL 15' QUADRANGLE, WEST-CENTRAL VERMONT Leader: Helen Mango
C3. THE POTSDAM SANDSTONE OF THE SOUTHERN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY: SEDIMENTOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY AND DIAGENESIS Leader: Bruce Selleck
C4. LATE PLEISTOCENE/HOLOCENE HISTORY IN THE MILLER BROOK AND HUNTINGTON VALLEYS, NORTHERN VERMONT Leaders: Stephen Wright, Paul Bierman, Timothy Whalen, Paul Zehfuss
C5. TRIP CANCELLED BECAUSE A MINE IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF NATIVE AMERICAN QUARRIES IN THE CENTRAL CHAMPLAIN VALLEY, Leader: Douglas Frink
C6. BASEMENT, METASEDIMENTARY AND TECTONIC COVER OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN MASSIF AND WESTERN FLANK OF THE CHESTER DOME Leaders: Nicholas Ratcliffe, Gregory J. Walsh, and John Aleinikoff
Kilburn is administered by Tim Allen, (tallen@keene.edu)