{"id":22,"date":"2016-10-03T18:07:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T23:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2023-10-25T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:25:21","slug":"field-trips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/field-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Field Trips and Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a listing of courses offered by Geology with corresponding possible field trips. Pictures from previous geology field trips are also posted.<\/p>\n

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Course Title<\/th>\nField Trip<\/th>\nDescription<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Physical Geology<\/td>\nHuntington and surrounding area<\/td>\nExamines various geomorphological features + effects\/ types of mass wasting. Introduces the Geology of the area, as well as mineral\/rock identification.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Historical Geology<\/td>\nI64 and AA in Ky<\/td>\nTraversing the Cincinnati Arch to investigating mid-lower Paleozoic lithologic units<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Field Mapping<\/td>\nHuntington and surrounding area<\/td>\nTopographic and bedrock mapping with an emphasis on Brunton compass use.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Structural Geology<\/td>\nSeneca Rocks<\/td>\nOvernight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sedimentation and Stratigraphy<\/td>\nI64 to Beckley and I64 to Morehead<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Petrology<\/td>\nBlue Ridge in Virginia and North Carolina<\/td>\nWeekend 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fossil Fuels<\/td>\nCoal mine\/active drilling site<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Geomorphology<\/td>\nShenandoah NP<\/td>\nOvernight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hydrogeology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Environmental<\/td>\nHuntington and surrounding area<\/td>\nContaminants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Engineering Geology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Big Bend Field Excursion<\/td>\nBig Bend National Park<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Visit to Drill Site, Charleston, WV<\/h2>\n
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Structural Geology: Canaan Valley Field Trip<\/h2>\n
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Sedimentation and Stratigraphy: Introductory Field Trips<\/h2>\n
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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,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":592,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}