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.
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.
This year, the Society’s annual spring field trip was lead Bill Burton and Bill Devlin on a 10-stop field trip in the Woodbury–Roxbury area. We sampled 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. The guidebook was augmented during the trip with posters that illustrated 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.
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.
This year, the Society’s annual spring field trip was lead Bill Burton and Bill Devlin on a 10-stop field trip in the Woodbury–Roxbury area. We sampled 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. The guidebook was augmented during the trip with posters that illustrated recently obtained data and the field trip leaders’ current thinking.
