Glacial Geology All Day Field Trip 1

Sharonville Dam And Oxford Trip Write Up

Trip Objective:

Gain practice mapping and interpreting surficial outcrops.

Resources:

1. Read the introduction chapter of Lowell, T.V. and Brockman, C.S., 1994, Quaternary sediment sequences in the Miami Lobe and Environs, Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene (FOP), Guidebook.

If you can read PDF formats this version (219 k) will give you better graphics.

If not load these different pages:

FOP Intro Text. All the text

FOP Intro Fig. 1

FOP Intro Fig. 2

FOP Intro Fig. 3

FOP Intro Fig. 4

FOP Intro Fig. 5

FOP Intro Fig. 6 & 7

Note that in these versions the tables of radiocarbon dates have been left out.

2. A copy of the Savage and Lowell paper.

3. Other materials will be handed out on the trip

Logistics:

Meet by the circle in front of the Geology/Physics building 8:00 Sunday 19 Oct. 1997.

We will be back by 5:00. Lunch at fast food places in Oxford.

Tasks:

Some tasks on the outcrop can be found here

Trip 1 Tasks (html format)

Trip1 Tasks.pdf (pdf format, what else?)