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Field Trip Photographs
 

EES Department Field Trip - Fall 2002

The entire geology department goes on a field trip each fall. In October, 2002, we went east to Knoxville and the Cumberland Plateau. Follow our route on the geologic map of Tennessee!

Nashville is in the northwest part of the Nashville Dome (pink area in the center of the state) and is underlain by Ordovician limestone (pink). In the wet climate of Middle Tennessee, the limestone relatively quickly weathers by dissolution, so the structural Nashville Dome is a topographic basin. We headed east, across nearly flat-lying Ordocivian and Mississippian limestone (blue) and Pennsylvanian sandstone (gray).
 
Environmental Geology Field Trip

 

Students from Professor Savage's Environmental Geology class on field trip to see Karst features in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

 

 

Environmental Geology students walk down to Jennings Creek, where an underground stream emerges to become a surface stream.

 

 

 

Graduate student Chris Hall describes tracer tests by which the path of this water beneath Bowling Green was determined.
 
Advanced Paleontology Field Trip

 

 

 

Professor Molly Miller guides the students as they measure and describe an Ordovician limestone section.

 

 

 

Example of Ordovician limestone with well-preserved brachiopods and other fauna.

 

 

 

Students describe the textural and faunal details as they measure the section.
 
Petrogenesis Field Trip

 

 

 

Graduate student Peter Berquist and undergraduate Stephen Ownby are excited about their field area, Roan Mountain!

 

 

 

Professor Calvin Miller (right) and students discuss intrusive relationships at "Loafer's Glory" in the North Carolina Appalachians.

 

 

 

Stephen points out both brittle and ductile features within the outcrop.
 

Petrology 109 Field Trip

For more information, please contact The Vanderbilt Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences - 615.322.2976.
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