The uplifted tip of the Nicaraguan Rise displays unique geological features that are elsewhere on the Rise submerged beneath the ocean or buried beneath Quaternary sediments and rocks.
Fieldtrips
The Department of Geology is committed to providing students with as many field experiences as possible. Field trips are an integral part of most courses taught in the Geology, and the department offers a number of trips within and outside of the United States to see geological features first hand.
Modern mixed carbonate-siliciclastic depositional environments
Modern carbonate depositional environments
San Salvador Island, Bahamas is an ideal place to explore the geologic and biologic aspects of (sub)tropical marine carbonate environments.
Adriatic carbonate platform
Continuous sections, spanning tens of millions of years, reveal the sea-level and climatic oscillations during the Jurassic-Cretaceous greenhouse earth
Tropical Glaciers
Modern glacier retreat in a tropical setting
Storm-influenced carbonate ramp
The classic Upper Ordovician strata of the Tri-state region have long fascinated both paleontologists and sedimentologists.
Ordovician and Mississipian carbonates of Kentucky and Virginia
Ordovician and Mississipian outcrops illustrate the interplay between the tectonically active foreland and eustasy.
Little Missouri
Rugged Badlands exhibit Late Cretaceous through Eocene depositional history of western North Dakota.
Gillis quarry near Winnipeg, MB
The best outcrops of burrow-mottled Red River Formation with giant cephalopods, gastropods, stromatoporoids and corals...