FOP 2015 Field Trip Itinerary - Trip is Full !
The first day’s trip will begin in Rocky Hill at about 10 AM on Friday, June 5.
We will travel by bus or vans to Griswold Point, Old Lyme on the shore of Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Here we will discuss important submerged features in Long Island and Block Island Sounds and examine the ice-marginal delta sediments exposed in the cliff face. At Stop 2, just below the I-95 bridge across the CT River, we will briefly discuss the geologic section there, and then board the River Quest for a scenic boat trip and view of the geology along the river to East Haddam, eating our box lunches along the way. From E. Haddam we will travel northward in the lower Connecticut River valley examining features and deposits that affected Lake Hitchcock levels, eventually returning to Rocky Hill.
Friday evening, we plan to have a happy hour / day-trip review, since we expect that not everyone will be able to attend the Friday fieldtrip despite its importance to the story.
On Saturday, June 6th -
We will again board a bus (or vans) and travel to Stops at the dam for Lake Hitchcock in Rocky Hill and the historic spillway of Lake Hitchcock in New Britain. We will also examine Lake Hitchcock delta exposures in the Farmington River delta complex, which records the high-level, stable-level, and post-stable-level stages of the lake. We will also have a stop at Matianuck Dunes State Park, where we will examine features on a lake-bottom surface in front of the Farmington delta including parabolic dunes and clusters of sub-circular rimmed depressions that may be pingo remnants indicative of permafrost conditions following lake drainage at 15.6 cal ka.
Saturday evening, Happy Hour and Buffet Dinner will be held at Dinosaur State Park. The Dinosaur footprint trackway in outcropping East Berlin Formation under the dome will be available for viewing and the Park gift shop will be open.
On Sunday, June 7th -
We are planning a shorter day and travel will be by individuals cars. We will cross to the east side of the Connecticut River and Stops will include a gravel pit in Glastonbury exhibiting the deltaic nature of the Rocky Hill dam, and the former Kelsey-Ferguson clay pit in South Windsor. Varve cores obtained by Jack Ridge and his students in Glastonbury, South Windsor, and East Windsor will be shown/illustrated. The important discussion on Sunday will be to review recent refinements to the timing of ice retreat through the region as a result of this recent coring of varves and the newly calibrated North American Varve Chronology (Ridge and others, 2012).
We will travel by bus or vans to Griswold Point, Old Lyme on the shore of Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Here we will discuss important submerged features in Long Island and Block Island Sounds and examine the ice-marginal delta sediments exposed in the cliff face. At Stop 2, just below the I-95 bridge across the CT River, we will briefly discuss the geologic section there, and then board the River Quest for a scenic boat trip and view of the geology along the river to East Haddam, eating our box lunches along the way. From E. Haddam we will travel northward in the lower Connecticut River valley examining features and deposits that affected Lake Hitchcock levels, eventually returning to Rocky Hill.
Friday evening, we plan to have a happy hour / day-trip review, since we expect that not everyone will be able to attend the Friday fieldtrip despite its importance to the story.
On Saturday, June 6th -
We will again board a bus (or vans) and travel to Stops at the dam for Lake Hitchcock in Rocky Hill and the historic spillway of Lake Hitchcock in New Britain. We will also examine Lake Hitchcock delta exposures in the Farmington River delta complex, which records the high-level, stable-level, and post-stable-level stages of the lake. We will also have a stop at Matianuck Dunes State Park, where we will examine features on a lake-bottom surface in front of the Farmington delta including parabolic dunes and clusters of sub-circular rimmed depressions that may be pingo remnants indicative of permafrost conditions following lake drainage at 15.6 cal ka.
Saturday evening, Happy Hour and Buffet Dinner will be held at Dinosaur State Park. The Dinosaur footprint trackway in outcropping East Berlin Formation under the dome will be available for viewing and the Park gift shop will be open.
On Sunday, June 7th -
We are planning a shorter day and travel will be by individuals cars. We will cross to the east side of the Connecticut River and Stops will include a gravel pit in Glastonbury exhibiting the deltaic nature of the Rocky Hill dam, and the former Kelsey-Ferguson clay pit in South Windsor. Varve cores obtained by Jack Ridge and his students in Glastonbury, South Windsor, and East Windsor will be shown/illustrated. The important discussion on Sunday will be to review recent refinements to the timing of ice retreat through the region as a result of this recent coring of varves and the newly calibrated North American Varve Chronology (Ridge and others, 2012).