Geology of New York State (GLY 550)

Spring 2015

Dr. Robert S. Darling

Geology of New York State Field Trip Summer, 2000

Our all-day Sunday Field Trip is scheduled for May 3rd, 2015 Please mark this on your calendar!

Geology of New York State is a graduate level course designed for in service teachers working on their MSEd or MAT degrees at Cortland.

Instructor

• Dr. Robert S. Darling
  324 Bowers Hall
  voice: x2923
  e-mail: robert.darling@cortland.edu

General Course Information

• Download the Course Syllabus (PDF)
  

• Download the powerpoint on apatite fission track dating
  
  
• The final exam is scheduled for Tuesday, May 12th, 2015, 4:20-6:20 pm
  

Required text:

Isachsen, Y.W., et al., (eds), Geology of New York: A Simplified Account, 1991, New York State Museum, Educational Leaflet No. 28, 284 p. (includes Geological Map).

Copies of papers you will read in this course:

• Davis, P. T., 1999, Cirques of the Presidential Range, New Hampshire, and surrounding alpine areas in the northeastern United States: Géographie physique et Quaternaire, v. 53, p. 25-45. (pdf)

• Isachsen, Y.W., 1975, Possible evidence for contemporary doming of the Adirondack Mountains, New York and suggested implications for regional tectonics and seismicity: Tectonophysics, v. 29, p. 169-181. (pdf)

• Isachsen, Y.W., 1981, Contemporary doming of the Adirondack Mountains: further evidence from releveling: Tectonophysics, v. 71, p. 95-96. (pdf)

• McLelland, J. M., Selleck, B. W., and Bickford, M. E., 2013, Tectonic Evolution of the Adirondack Mountains and Grenville Orogen Inliers within the USA. Geoscience Canada, v. 40, p. 318-352. (pdf)

• Mullins, H.T., and Hinchey, E.J., 1989, Erosion and infill of New York Finger Lakes: Implications for Laurentide ice sheet deglaciation: Geology, v. 17, p. 622-625. (pdf)

• Roden-Tice, M., Tice, S.J., and Schofield, I.S., 2000, Evidence for differential unroofing in the Adirondack Mountains, New York State, determined by apatite fission-track thermochronology: Journal of Geology, v. 108, p. 155-169. (pdf)

• Taylor, J. P., and Fitzgerald, P. G. , 2011, Low-temperature thermal history and landscape development of the eastern Adirondack Mountains, New York: Constraints from apatite fission-track thermochronology and apatite (U-Th)/He dating: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, p. 412-426. (pdf)

• New York State Museum Read about the latest Museum staff discoveries in New York State.
  
  
• Geological Society of America's home page.
  
  

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