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Field Geology
Prof. R.W. Schlische and Prof. M. O. Withjack . [Lec. 1hr., lab. 6 hrs. Prerequisites: Structural Geology AND Stratigraphy or Sedimentary Geology; OR permission of instructor.] Methodology of field investigations and field and subsurface mapping: aerial photo and topographic mapping; construction of geologic maps and cross sections; seismic interpretation; written report.
Dates for 2002 field course: Friday, August 16 to Wednesday, August 28
Field Area: Fundy rift basin, Nova Scotia, Canada
Classroom activities : held at the Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Top: View from Old Wife Point, Fundy rift basin;
Right: Five Islands region at high & low tide
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Syllabus
Week # |
Topics |
| Day 1 |
Introductory lectures and exercises at Rutgers (field work fundamentals, faulting and folding, constraining the time of deformation, structural styles, lithologic contacts, net-slip vs. separation, fault zones and associated features, types of rift basins, depositional environments) |
| Day 2 |
Driving day |
| Day 3 |
Driving day; arrive in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia |
| Day 4 |
Museum: review of tectonic history of eastern North America and geology of the Fundy basin; extensional fault-propagation and forced folding; dip-slip, oblique-slip, and strike-slip faulting; interpretation of cliff-face photo-mosaic
Field work: Five Islands East (Recognizing formations and interpreting depositional environments, locating your position on an air photo, geologic mapping on an air-photo base, recognizing structural styles in the field, constraining the timing of deformation) |
| Day 5 |
Museum: 3D seismic exercise; dikes, flows, and sills in the field
Field work: Five Islands West (recognizing formations and interpreting depositional environments; recognizing fault breccias and depositional breccias; recognizing dikes, flows, and sills in the field; geologic mapping on an air-photo base; recognizing structural styles in the field; constraining the timing of deformation) |
| Day 6 |
Museum: review; construct cross section of Five Islands area; interpretation & restoration of seismic line 82-28; analysis of cliff-face photomosaic
Field work: Blue Sac (recognizing formations and interpreting depositional environments, recognizing fault breccias and depositional breccias, constraining the timing of deformation, structural restorations, constraining the tectonic history) |
| Day 7 |
Museum: Construct local and regional cross sections at latitude of Blue Sac
Free afternoon |
| Day 8 |
Field work: Carrs Brook 1 (recognizing formations and interpreting depositional environments)
Museum: preliminary interpretation of Carrs Brook air photo |
| Day 9 |
Field work: Carrs Brook 2 (recognizing contacts in the field, geological mapping on an air-photo base)
Museum: construction of Carrs Brook cross sections |
| Day 10 |
Field work: Carrs Brook 3 (geologic mapping on air-photo base)
Museum: construct geologic cross sections; use geologic maps and cross sections to understand the structural evolution of an area |
| Day 11 |
Field work: Wasson Bluff 1 (interpretation of cliff-face drawings, recognizing formations and interpreting depositional environments, recognizing fault breccias and depositional breccias, constraining the timing of deformation)
Museum: interpretation of seismic lines 81-47 & 82-29 |
| Day 12 |
Field work: Wasson Bluff 2 (geologic mapping of complex area on air photo and topographic base)
Driving |
| Day 13 |
Driving day; return to Rutgers |
| After 1 week |
Report outline due |
| After 3 weeks |
Written report due |
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