Appalachian Field Trip March 31 - April 5, 2004

Fearless Field Trip Leaders: Ginny Peterson, Patricia Videtich and Figen Mekik

We are standing on the Cambrian-Precambrian boundary on the Virginia Creeper Trail.

	Our very observant students checking out the thick sequence of sedimentary rocks at Pound Gap on the Kentucky/Virginia border.
	Intertonguing rock units at Pound Gap. Nice example of units wedging out and lateral facies change.
	Flaser Bedding at Pound Gap
	Sarah, Kelly and Ginny on a VERY cold day at Pound Gap, right by the Virginia border..
	Iron staining of beautiful beach sandstones at Pound Gap Liesagang
	Rachael by her favorite unconformity at Pound Gap.
	Out three very reliable vans: Carolina, Cha-cha and Pattywagon. Guess which one I drove....
	Cool stylolites in dolomite
	Check out the soft sediment deformation
	Our students: serious, observant and very, very cold.
	Conglomerates of the Cambrian-Precambrian boundary on the Virginia Creeper Trail
	Precambrian diamictites on the Virginia Creeper Trail Snowball Earth?
	The beautiful Pound Gap sequence from deep marine turbidites to clean beach sandstones...
	Precambrian rhyolite pillows on the Virginia Creeper trail
	Can you see the toolmarks?
	Mudcracks
	The dolomites here may be pretty, but the shales have graptolites!! Also the only sunny hour on our 5 day field trip.
	Flat pebble conglomerates in the dolomite
	Soft sediment deformation, burrows and borings in the dolomite.