2025 GSC Annual Spring Field Trip
"On the Mapping Menu in Western Connecticut:
Main Course of Migmatites and Metasediments with a Side of Basin"
Main Course of Migmatites and Metasediments with a Side of Basin"
Examples of lithologies from the general area of the field trip that we will sample during our field-trip buffet: banded migmatite biotite gneiss (left), garnetiferous schist (center), and Pomperaug basin arkose (right). Images courtesy of Bill Burton.
Where: Meet at the I-84 Exit 17 Park and Ride in Middlebury, Connecticut (see meeting place location map below)
When: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. on Saturday, May 10, 2025, with après-trip libations at Maggie McFly’s in Middlebury, Connecticut, from 5 p.m.– 6 p.m.
Cost: $25 for GSC members (covers the cost of the guidebook)
Registration deadline: Registration closes when the number of participants reaches the limit of 35.
Special information: Please bring a lunch and water. Restrooms will be available after Stop 3 and at Stop 7.
Special request: Parking is limited at some of the stops. Please let us know (via [email protected]), if you are able to bring a van, university or otherwise, so that we can minimize the number of vehicles on the trip.
The trip will run rain or shine!
Join us for the society’s annual spring field trip! Trip leaders Bill Burton and Bill Devlin will guide us on a 10-stop field trip in the Woodbury–Roxbury area. We will sample a broad buffet of lithologies and structures and, with the help of ancillary data, put together a depositional and tectonic history for this geologically complex area that underwent Paleozoic contractional and Mesozoic extensional tectonics.
The guidebook was originally prepared for a 2020 field trip that was canceled. It will be augmented during the trip with posters that illustrate recently obtained data and the field trip leaders’ current thinking.
When: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. on Saturday, May 10, 2025, with après-trip libations at Maggie McFly’s in Middlebury, Connecticut, from 5 p.m.– 6 p.m.
Cost: $25 for GSC members (covers the cost of the guidebook)
Registration deadline: Registration closes when the number of participants reaches the limit of 35.
Special information: Please bring a lunch and water. Restrooms will be available after Stop 3 and at Stop 7.
Special request: Parking is limited at some of the stops. Please let us know (via [email protected]), if you are able to bring a van, university or otherwise, so that we can minimize the number of vehicles on the trip.
The trip will run rain or shine!
Join us for the society’s annual spring field trip! Trip leaders Bill Burton and Bill Devlin will guide us on a 10-stop field trip in the Woodbury–Roxbury area. We will sample a broad buffet of lithologies and structures and, with the help of ancillary data, put together a depositional and tectonic history for this geologically complex area that underwent Paleozoic contractional and Mesozoic extensional tectonics.
The guidebook was originally prepared for a 2020 field trip that was canceled. It will be augmented during the trip with posters that illustrate recently obtained data and the field trip leaders’ current thinking.
