Final Project
Keith A. Klepeis
Be sure to wear WARM clothes today! We may have a chance to work on
your presentations later today.
Here is a description of your final project for the course, which
includes the work we will start today at Lone Rock Point. .
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger><bigger>THE FORELAND OF
VERMONT
</bigger>The final paper should be an integration of all the bedrock
geology that you have observed during the semester. Lessor Quarry and
the Beam are two types of structures that are representative of many
foreland regions of the world. I have given your copies of typical
cross sections of major foreland regions (Southern Appalachians, the
Canadian Rockies, Taiwan) along with schematic diagrams and
hypothetical diagrams of typical folds in the foreland where the
geometry of faults controls the geometry of folds. More locally, the
Geological Map of Massachusetts (1985) contains cross sections across
Massachusetts which covers the New England Appalachian Mountains.
Other sources of recent information are found in the New England
Intercollegiate Guidebook for this year.
Your paper should integrate what we have seen this semester. It
<underline>should not be a repetition of what you observed and
speculated at each locality. </underline> You can use the information
(stereonets, maps, cross sections, diagrams) that were part of your
reports, but it must be summarized and directed towards the main focus
of the paper. For example, the retrodeformation at the beam could be
very useful if you incorporate it into the paper in the right way.
Simply to include it is not enough.
What new diagrams would be helpful? Here is a list of potential
candidates. Feel free to draw your own or used a published map. For
example, if you use a published map and simplify it, you must credit
the source. (Look on the walls of Perkins or in the map room at
Bailey)
1. Geological map of western Vermont between the latitude of
Burlington and Milton.
2. Geological cross section of western Vermont. You might try one
yourself since you have the information to try schematic cross
section.
3. Location of field areas. Representative structural information
from those areas. These localities should be on the map and your cross
sections.
4. Selective stereonets that summarize information.
5. Other conceptual diagrams that augment the paper.
<bold>The paper:
</bold>1. 5 pages or less using font 10, style geneva or comparable
style. This page limit excludes diagrams and their figure captions.
2. Everyone turns in separate reports including diagrams (be sure to
previde references for the diagrams that are not your creation).
3. Potential organization: Abstract, Introduction, Long Rock Point
(data, diagrams, site interpretation) Regional Data, Regional
Interpretations, References Cited.
4. No stratigraphy section although the general nature and geological
setting represented by the rocks should be discussed briefly in the
Introduction or a separate section if you wish. However, I do not
want you to go into the details of the stratigraphy as we did at
Lessor's Quarry.
I hope this is helpful.
</bigger></fontfamily>Rolfe Stanley
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Keith Klepeis, Structural Geology and Tectonics
Department of Geology
The University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405 USA
Phone: (802) 656-0246 Fax: (802) 656-0045
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