Geology Field Trips
Select classes offered by the Department of Geosiences require field study exercises.
The following images are from field trips.
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Carters Ordovician Limestone and Hermitage Formation on highway 70 S near Murfreesboro, Tennessee |
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A collapsed copper mine in Ducktown, Tennessee was once the second largest in the United States |
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This image was taken at the Cherokee National Forest overlooking the Valley and Ridge province from the Blue Ridge province |
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Students observing metamorphic structures in the Ocoee River Gorge |
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The Central Uplift caused by a meteor impact at the Wells Creek site in west Tennessee |
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Students usually find fragments - complete shatter cones are rare at this site |
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This shatter cone was found at Wells Creek with its base fully intact |
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Deformed strata from the South Rim of the Wells Creek structure |
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