Structural Geology Field Trip to Alabama Thursday, March 29- Sunday, April
1, 1996
From LSU:
Dr. J. M. Lorenzo, LSU, Baton Rouge. (10 students & 2 Teaching assistants)
From USF (Tampa, University of South Florida):
Dr. J.G. Ryan, (20 students & 2 Teaching assistants)
Multi-phase deformation at Elkahatchee Creek, or "How many generations
of dykes can you see?"
Dr. Jeff Ryan (USF)
Compressive phase
Folded pegmatite dyke. From LSU, left to Right: Pamela Mitternight, Brandt
Temple (Teaching Assistant)
Strike-slip phase
Faulted aplite dyke
Boulders in the Making!
Sitting left to right on an example of "Onion-skin weathering", from LSU:
Gian Constantine and Brandt Temple (Teaching Asistant)
Inside a thrust fault (?)
Lay Dam- tectonized diamictite. Left-lateral sheared pebble and hinge of
folded quartz vein