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HISTORIC STOPS AND GUIDEBOOKS WEB MAP

Use the web map below to view past field conference stop locations and download guidebooks. Click here to open the map in a new window (recommended for mobile users).

GUIDEBOOK ARCHIVE

A complete collection of guidebooks can be found below.

1963

Stratigraphy and Structure of Upper and Middle Devonian Rocks in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Leaders:

J. D. Glaeser, L. A. Frakes, W. R. Wagner, J. F. Wietrzychowski
Guidebook
No Road Log
The field guide describes, evaluates, and interprets the stratigraphic and structural framework of Catskill and related strata in northeast Pennsylvania. A two day field trip, including eleven stops, begins and ends in Stroudsburg.

1962

Stratigraphy, Structure, and Economic Geology of Southern Somerset County and Adjacent Parts of Bedford and Fayette Counties, Pennsylvania

Leaders:

N. K. Flint, A. S. Cate, G. Klein, W. Leeper, S. Philbrick
Guidebook
No Road Log
The general geology of Devonian and Carboniferous rocks in the Appalachian Plateau of Pennsylvania are examined.

1961

Structure and Stratigraphy of the Reading Hills and Lehigh Valley in Northampton and Lehigh Counties, Pennsylvania

Leaders:

A. Drake, W. C. Sherwood, J. Ames, and J. D. Ryan
Guidebook
No Road Log
The field trip was designed to examine and compare the structural features of the rocks of the Reading Hills and those of the Lehigh Valley in Northampton and Lehigh Counties, Pennsylvania and adjacent parts of New Jersey and to examine the relationship between early Paleozoic tectonism and sedimentation.

1960

Some Tectonics and Structural Problems of the Appalachian Piedmont along the Susquehanna River

Leaders:

O. P. Bricker, C. A. Hopson, M. E. Kauffman, D. M. Lapham, D. B. McLaughlin and D. U. Wise
Guidebook
No Road Log
This trip examined the intensely deformed, metamorphosed and intruded inner Piedmont, Triassic fanglomerates, nappe structures and Ordovician volcanics.

1959

Twenty-fourth Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists

Leaders:

V. C. Shepps and W. S. Lytle
Guidebook
No Road Log
The field conference celebrated the centennial of the Drake well and included trips throughout northwestern Pennsylvania. 1. The glacial geology of Crawford and Erie Counties. 2. Bedrock and oil geology of northwestern Pennsylvania and the great Oildorado. 3. Erosion channel in Penn Dixie limestone mine. A history of the Drake well and a visit to the museum are included in this guidebook

1958

Structural Geology of South Mountain and Appalachians in Maryland

Leaders:

E. Cloos and T. D. Murphy
Guidebook
No Road Log
This guidebook was published as the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology No. 17 and is available from University Microfilms, 300 North Zeebs Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. The South Mountain anticlinorium and the Appalachians to the west are examined. The route does not extend into Pennsylvania.

1956

Twenty-second Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists

Leaders:

M. E. Johnson, F. J. Markewicz, K. Widmer, B. Willard
Guidebook
No Road Log
This guidebook summarized the geology of the major physiographic provinces and Coastal Plain sediments near Trenton, New Jersey, and included a stop at Limeport, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

1955

Twenty-first Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists

Leaders:

F. M. Swartz, M. Rones, A. D. Donaldson, J. P. Hea, P. D. Krynine, R. P. Nickelsen, and E. G. Williams
Guidebook
No Road Log
This field conference provided participants with a general review of the geology of parts of central Pennsylvania. They were: 1. Stratigraphy of Ordovician limestones and dolomites of Nittany Valley from Bellefonte to Pleasant Gap. 2. Stratigraphy and structure of Ridge and Valley area from University Park to Tyrone, Mt. Union, and Lewistown. 3. Stratigraphy and structure of Pennsylvania sediments of the Plateau area near Philipsburg and Clearfield.

1954

Twentieth Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists

Leaders:

C. Gray, J. R. Moseley, D. B. McLaughlin, C. E. Prouty
Guidebook
No Road Log
The field trips taken at this conference were almost entirely in Lebanon County. The routes were in the Great Valley section of the Ridge and Valley province. Trips included: 1. Cornwall iron deposits. 2. Cambro- Ordovician limestones of Lebanon County. 3. Martinsburg Formation and associated eruptive rocks of the Jonestown area.

1953

Nineteenth Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists

Leaders:

J. L. Dyson, A. Montgomery, C. Cabeen, R. F. Gantnier, D. McLaughlin, B. Willard, C. Warmkessel, J. Bertrand
Guidebook
No Road Log
This conference, held in Northampton County, summarized the geology of the area through its four field trips. 1. North from Easton to slate and cement areas. 2. Mineral collecting trip to serpentine quarries north of Easton. 3. North from Easton to Panther Valley anthracite region. 4. South from Easton to Riegelsville.
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