North Carolina Summer Geology Field Course 2019
May 07 to June 19
Course
Information
GEOLOGY 4000 - 6 semester hours - May 07 - June 19, 2019 (Including Travel Days in Vans to and from New Mexico and Colorado)
TUITION AND FEES: Total cost for applicants will be $4500
Students, who are not currently enrolled at East Carolina University, will have to pay a $75 Application Fee to be admitted as a Visiting Summer Student.
All food and camping-lodging expenses are covered in the course fees.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: OPEN UNTIL FULL.
Applications are welcome as long as
space remains for additional students. Our
Geology Field Course fills early in recent years so apply early if you want to
be assured of a spot in the 2019 Geology Field Course.
PREREQUISITES: Courses in Mineralogy, Petrology, Stratigraphy
(preferred but not required), Structural Geology, and Field Methods. If you have not had
one or more of these courses, you should wait and take the Field Course (GEOL
4000) in a future summer after you have completed all the pre-requisites. The one exception would be a Field Methods course
as this course is often combined with Structural Geology. You must have completed a course in
Structural Geology and General Petrology (Igneous, Sedimentary, and
Metamorphic) to attend our Field Course.
All Students, who are enrolled in the 2019
Geology Field Course, and all Staff, who are employed for the 2019 Geology
Field Course, are required to read and review the Title IX document, before the
Field Course begins. On the morning of
May 10th you will be asked to sign a form that you have done
so. The Title IX document that you need
to read can be accessed at the link immediately below.
OFF CAMPUS
PROGRAMS: UNDERSTANDING TITLE IX
If you have questions, please contact the Field Course Director, Dr. Stephen Harper, to discuss your individual situation.
Overview of the North Carolina Geology Field Course
The North Carolina Summer Geology Field Course is a 6 week, 6-semester hour, capstone Geology Field Course administered by the Department of Geological Sciences at East Carolina University. The North Carolina Summer Geology Field Course is conducted in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado within a geologic and tectonic setting that includes the Southern Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Plateau, the Rio Grande Rift, the Jemez Volcanic Center, and the San Juan Mountains and Volcanic Center. The course emphasizes field mapping and is designed to train students in field oriented problem solving and critical thinking that will prepare them for a professional career in the Geological Sciences. The New Mexico and Colorado regional setting allows us to introduce students to intensely deformed Proterozoic metamorphic rocks, Paleozoic to Cenozoic sedimentary rocks, middle to late Cenozoic volcanic terrains, and late Cenozoic alluvial and colluvial sediments.
In addition to four field mapping exercises, we conduct exercises in applied geology, which include the hydrogeology-geomorphology of the Rio Grande del Rancho Drainage Basin and reconnaissance level landslide mapping and slope stability analysis in the Rio Grande Gorge. One to two day field trips to the Jemez Volcanic Center, and Bandelier National Monument, the Great Sand Dunes National Park, the Creede, CO Mining District, San Juan Volcanic Field, Crested Butte, CO, and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, CO are also scheduled.
The North Carolina Summer Geology Field Course is in its 55th year of operation. The 2019 Field Course will be taught by faculty from East Carolina University, UNC-Charlotte, and perhaps other UNC-system universities, and by professional geologists from the North Carolina Geologic Survey, and SMK Geosciences, Durango, CO.
Students
represented at the North Carolina Summer Geology Field Course from 2013 - 2018
include:
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Appalachian State University |
Texas A&M University |
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East Carolina University |
University of Maryland |
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UNC – Chapel Hill |
University of Pittsburgh |
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UNC – Charlotte |
Georgia Southern University |
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North Carolina State University |
University of Kentucky |
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University of Nevada - Reno |
James Madison University |
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University of Texas – San Antonio |
Furman University |
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Guilford College |
Texas Tech University |
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University of Tennessee - Knoxville |
Mississippi State University |
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Case Western Reserve University - Ohio |
Bryn Maar College |
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Middle Tennessee State University |
University of Southern Mississippi |
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Grand
Valley State University |
Cal
State University – East Bay |
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Central Michigan University |
Missouri State University |
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Sam Houston State University Temple University Washington
State University |
Bloomsberg State University Virginia Tech
University Eastern New Mexico
University |