Some Geological field trip
localities in the NY Capital Region
The New York Capital Region offers a wonderful variety of geological
exposures, accessible in less than an hour's drive from Albany.
Guidebooks documenting field trips in the area, and elsewhere in the
NE US, have been published by:
the NEIGC (http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/NEIGC/)
(1989 and older NEIGC guidebooks for most years are available online
here: http://www.library.unh.edu/digital/category/science-technology
and the NYSGA (http://www.nysga-online.net/guidebooks/)
Field
trip guide for the DOGS reunion 12 August 2017
guide with road log trip summary with
times google earth
kmz file for stops
field trip picture at Starks Knob
contributed SUNYA DOGS pictures contributed field trip/dinner/picnic
pictures
Karson Starks Knob
drone pics
Bill Kidd's field trip guides for the NY and VT Taconic
fold-thrust belt from NEIGC/NYSGA meetings:
Detailed stratigraphic and structural features of the Giddings Brook
slice of the Taconic Allochthon in the Granville area. NYSGA/NEIGC
1979 meeting. pdf file
Thrusts, melanges, folded thrusts, and duplexes in the Taconic
Foreland. NYSGA 1985 meeting. pdf file
Lithofacies and structure of the Taconic Flysch, Melange, and
Allochthon in the New York Capital District. NYSGA 1995 meeting. pdf file [coloured
geological
outcrop
map
of
New
York
Capital district]
The Champlain Thrust System in the Whitehall-Shoreham area:
influence of pre- and post-thrust normal faults on the present
thrust geometry and lithofacies distribution. NYSGA/NEIGC 2002
meeting. pdf file [coloured
geological outcrop map Benson-Shoreham area, VT]
Evidence against the allochthonous nature of the Stanbridge Nappe at
Highgate Gorge, northwestern Vermont. NEIGC 2009 meeting. pdf file
[coloured
geological outcrop map Highgate VT-St. Armand Station PQ]
Jack Bird's seminal Taconic field
trip guide
Stratigraphy, Structure, Sedimentation and Paleontology of the
southern Taconic region, eastern New York; Guidebook for field trip
3, Geol. Soc. Amer., 1963, John M. Bird (editor). pdf file
but, it has to be admitted the access is not usually available year
round.....
........visitors attending the NE GSA in March 2016 might note what
could be observed at Cohoes Falls in March 2015:
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