December 2-7, 2012 • Morristown, New Jersey
student symposium – Maggie Benoit gave an introductory talk to the students, presenting an overview of GeoPRISMS and the EARS
student symposium
student field trip – Stop 1: Outcrop-scale fold in the Cambrian carbonates – Route 611, Durham Furnace, PA. Photo by Roy Schlische
student field trip
student field trip
student field trip – Stop 2: Normal fault developed in Late Triassic mudstone – Kintnersville, PA
student field trip
student field trip – stop 2
student field trip – Stop 2: Normal fault developed in Late Triassic mudstone – Kintnersville, PA
student field trip – Saria and Andrew
student field trip – Stop 2: Normal fault developed in Late Triassic mudstone – Kintnersville, PA; Julia Morgan and Dominique Garello for scale
student field trip – stop 2
student field trip – Stop 3: Spectacular fall colours at Ringing Rocks Park
student field trip – Stop 3: Spectacular fall colours at Ringing Rocks Park
student field trip – Stop 3: Ringing Rock Park, Upper Black Eddy, PA.
student field trip – stop 3
student field trip – stop 3
student field trip – Maggie, Maryjo, Catherine, Cristo and Greg
student field trip – Falls colours in Ringing Rocks Park
student field trip – stop 3
student field trip – stop 3
student field trip – Julia swinging a ringing rock hammer
student field trip – Amy swinging rock hammer
student field trip – Rob and Ramon listening to the ringing rocks
student field trip – Sara chilling out on diabase
student field trip – stop 3
student field trip
student field trip – stop 3
student field trip – Ringing Rocks Park. Boulders consist of weathered diabase
student field trip
student field trip – Photo of waterfall in Ringing Rocks Park. Thermally metamorphosed rocks of Passaic Formation below diabase sheet
student field trip
student field trip – Crossing the Delaware River
student field trip – Stop 4: Conglomerate at Pebble Bluff near Milford, NJ.
student field trip – Conglomerate and sandstone alterning with cyclical black, grey and red mudstone. Conglomerate layer on the picture is about 30 cm thick
student field trip
Student dinner at the Famished Frog in Morristown, NJ.
Introduction to GeoPRISMS by Julia Morgan
Pop-up presentations by the graduate students
Break out session
Break out session
Break out session
Break out session
GeoPRISMS data resources mini-workshop led by Andrew Goodwillie
Animated discussion around the map showing locations of the ongoing projects in the EARS
Poster session
Poster session
Participants of the 2012 GeoPRISMS Implementation Workshop for the EARS Primary Site, Morristown, NJ
The last day, the graduate students presented their own implementation plan to the entire workshop
Students gathered around during their last day presentation
Paul Olsen from Columbia University, showing the 1st stop which is located along a recently acquired seismic line that images a cross-section of the basin geometry
Looking closer to the deformed footwall rocks of the border fault
Saturday Field Trip
The group listening to Paul Olsen describing the intrusive sill, which is very clearly imaged on the seismic profile
Lava flow
Beautiful view over the Hudson River
Lava flows representing examples of the 201.5 Ma Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP). The latter comprises the aerially largest igneous province on Earth (~11×106 square km). CAMP has been strongly implicated in the end-Triassic mass extinction
On our way to the last stop located behind a McDonald’s drive thru!
Cyclical lacustrine deposits formed in a Triassic Great Lake, minimally the size of Lake Turkana
Fish coproliths in the fine lacustrine deposits
Outcrop
Lacustrine deposit. Athanas for scale
Group picture. From left to right: Anaïs Ferot, Dozith Abeinomugisha, ROger Buck, Donna Shillington, August Costa, Gezahegn Abegaz, Paul Olsen & guest, Athanas Macheyeki, Laletsang Kebabonye