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.A1. Lake Char-Honey Hill-Clinton Newbury Fault System from Southern Massachusetts to Southern Connecticut: Low-angle Normal Faults in the Northern Appalachians and their Tectonic Significance. Leader: Arthur Goldstein.
A2. Issues of Magma Mixing and Avalonian to Alleghanian Tectonism Along the Eastern Fringe of the Southeastern New England Appalachians: The New Bedford Region. Leaders: Daniel P. Murray, O. Don Hermes, Nasir Hamidzada.
A3. Precambrian and Paleozoic Mylonites of the Boston Avalon. Leaders: James W. Skehan, Nicolas Rast, Edward Kohut, J. Christopher Hepburn, Stephen W. Grimes.
A4. The Hinterland of the Alleghanian Orogen in Southern New England: Late Paleozoic Metamorphic and Structural Overprint on Acadian Metamorphic Rocks. Leaders: Robert P. Wintsch, Michael J. Kunk, John N. Aleinikoff
A5. Coastal Geologic Hazards on the South Shore of Rhode Island.Leaders: Jon C. Boothroyd, Joseph Klinger, Christopher Galagan.
A6. Soils Affected by Aeolian Processes in Rhode Island. Leader: Mark H. Stolt.
Welcome Party and Registration, 6:00 - 9:30 pm, University Club, Upper College Road, University of Rhode Island at Kingston (i.e., Main Campus).
Registration, 7:00 - 8:00 am, Keaney parking lot (large lot off Rte. 138 at URI athletic facility)
B1. Ungrouping the Boston Bay Group. Leaders: Margaret Thompson, Richard Bailey.
B2. Late Paleozoic Orogeny in Southeastern New England: A Mid-crustal View. Leaders: L. Peter Gromet, Stephen R. Getty, Eugene K. Whitehead.
B3. Avalonian and Alleghanian Deformation in Southern Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Leaders: James W. Skehan, Michael Webster, Nicolas Rast.
B4. Characterizing the Alleghanian Orogeny in Southeastern New England: A West to East Traverse Across the Southern Narragansett Basin. (Repeated as Trip C4 on Sunday.) Leaders: Rachel J. Burks, Sharon Mosher, Daniel P. Murray.
B5. Glacial Geology and Hydrogeology of Block Island. Leaders: Les Sirkin, Anne I. Veeger.
B6. Beavertail, Rhode Island: An Introduction to the Bedrock Geology of Narragansett Bay, as Seen in Locales Suitable for K-12 Field Excursions. Leader: James I. Sammons.
B7. Recessional Moraines and the Associated Deglacial Record of Southeastern Connecticut. Leaders: Janet R. Stone, Mary DiGiacomo-Cohen, Ralph S. Lewis.
B8. The Geoarcheology of Selected Locales in Southeastern New England. Leaders: Duncan Ritchie, O. Don Hermes
Reception and Annual Banquet: 6:00-7:30 pm, Refreshments at the University Club, Upper College Road; 7:30-10:00 pm, NEIGC Banquet in the main dining hall, Memorial Union, University of Rhode Island at Kingston (i.e., Main Campus).
C1. The Role of Volcanic, Granitic and Sedimentary Rocks in Understanding the Pre-Pennsylvanian Tectonics of Central Rhode Island. Leaders: O. Don Hermes, Daniel P. Murray, Emile Bettez, Anthony Maria, Nasir Hamidzada, Margaret Thompson.
C2. Late Paleozoic Deformation, Metamorphism and Exhumation in Central Connecticut. Leaders: Robert Wintsch, Margaret Coleman, Michael Pulver, Tim Byrne, John N. Aleinikoff, Michael J. Kunk, Mary Roden-Tice.
C3. The Avalon and Nashoba Terranes of Eastern Massachusetts. Leaders: J. Christopher Hepburn, Richard Bailey.
C4. Characterizing the Alleghanian Orogeny in Southeastern New England: A West to East Traverse Across the Southern Narragansett Basin. (Repeat of Trip B4 on Saturday.) Leaders: Rachel J. Burks, Sharon Mosher.
C5. The Glacial Geology of Southern and Central Rhode Island. Leaders: Jon C. Boothroyd, Janet R. Stone, Patrick Craft, Janet Freedman.