Class Field Trips and Photos

Below is a listing of courses offered by Geology with corresponding possible field trips. Pictures from previous geology field trips are also posted.

Field Trips offered by Course

Course Title Field Trip Description
Physical Geology Huntington and surrounding area Examines various geomorphological features + effects/ types of mass wasting. Introduces the Geology of the area, as well as mineral/rock identification.
Historical Geology I64 and AA in Ky Traversing the Cincinnati Arch to investigating mid-lower Paleozoic lithologic units
Field Mapping Huntington and surrounding area Topographic and bedrock mapping with an emphasis on Brunton compass use.
Structural Geology Seneca Rocks Overnight
Sedimentation and Stratigraphy I64 to Beckley and I64 to Morehead
Petrology Blue Ridge in Virginia and North Carolina Weekend long field trip examining plutonic and volcanic rocks from Mt. Rogers, as well as various igneous and metamorphic rocks of different grades from the western, central, and eastern Blue Ridge.
Fossil Fuels Coal mine/active drilling site
Geomorphology Shenandoah NP Overnight
Hydrogeology
Environmental Huntington and surrounding area Contaminants
Engineering Geology
Big Bend Field Excursion Big Bend National Park

 

Visit to Drill Site, Charleston, WV

Students look at boxed rock core
Drill Derrick at UC campus, Charleston, WV
Viewing drill bits and crude oil samples

 


Structural Geology: Canaan Valley Field Trip

Obsservation deck at Blackwater Falls
USGS Benchmark on bridge abutment Blackwater Falls S.P.
>Blackwater River Gorge, Pennsylvanian Allegheny sandsone
Pennsylvanian Pottsville over Mississippian Mauch Chumk, Canaan Heights
Greenbrier limestone quarry, Canaan Valley State Park
Greenbriere limstone over Pocono Group, Pendelton/Randolph Co. Line
River cobbles in Seneca Visitor Center
Vertical Silurian Tuscarora sandstone, Mouth of Seneca.
N Frk of South Br Potomac River, Mouth of Seneca
Germany Valley Overlook, Center of Wils Mtn. Anticline
Observation tower Spruce Knob, Highest point in WV, elev. 4863 feet.
Spruce Knob, Axis of Stony River Syncline to NE
Spruce Knob is capped by resistant Pennsylvanian age sandstone

 

Sedimentation and Stratigraphy: Introductory Field Trips

Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students at rock formation
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students at rock formation
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing student examining a large rock
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students examining field of rocks
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students examining field of rocks
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students examining marks left on a rock face
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students surveying a forest
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students around an in-ground pipeline installation
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students around an in-ground pipeline installation
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students in the trenches of an in-ground pipeline installation
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students in the trench of an in-ground pipeline installation
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip showing students around an in-ground pipeline installation
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip
Photo from Sedimentation and Stratigraphy field trip

 

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