New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference 2016

The 2016 New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference (NEIGC), Geology of the Maine Coast from Maquoit Bay to Muscongus Bay, was held October 14-16, 2016. Maine Geological Survey and the Middlebury College Geology Department hosted the conference this year in southern Maine.

• Guidebook for field trips along the Maine coast from Maquoit Bay to Muscongus Bay
• Trip A1: Kinematic indicators and ductile strain domains associated with regional shearing: A transect across the Norumbega fault and shear zone system, Pemaquid Point to northern Casco Bay
• Trip A2: The Migmatite-Granite Complex of southern Maine: Its structure, petrology, geochemistry, geochronology, and relation to the Sebago Pluton
• Trip A3: Bedrock relationships along the Sennebec Pond fault: A structural puzzle, a stratigraphic enigma, and a tectonic riddle
• Trip A4.1: Influence of geology on contaminant migration and remediation at three sites at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station
• Trip A4.2: Stream morphology and water quality in a densely developed watershed, Topsham Fair Mall, Maine
• Trip A5: Coastal bluff erosion, landslides and associated salt marsh environments in northern Casco Bay, Maine
• Trip A6.1: The historic cribstone bridge, Bailey Island
• Trip A6.2: The ecogeomorphology of two salt marshes in midcoast Maine: Natural history and human impacts
• Trip B1: Bedrock geology of Small Point, Maine: A fresh look at the stratigraphy, structure, and metamorphism
• Trip B2: Teaching rocks: Field-inspired practice and discussion of teaching geologic content
• Trip B3: Geomorphology of the Sheepscot River: Postglacial evolution, salmon habitat and historic dams
• Trip B4: Stratigraphy, structure, and plutonism in the Wiscasset-Dresden region of mid-coastal Maine
• Trip B5: Late Wisconsinan glacial and marine geology and early postglacial geomorphic evolution of the lower Androscoggin Valley and Casco Bay Lowland
• Trip B6: Hydrogeology and coastal processes at Popham Beach State Park (PDF 3.8MB)
• Trip C1: Glacial deposits, subglacial meltwater processes, and deglaciation of the Belfast area, midcoast Maine: New insights using LiDAR imagery
• Trip C2: Middle Ordovician to Early Silurian terranes of the northern Casco Bay region, Maine
• Trip C3: Plutonic rocks from Waldoboro to Richmond, Maine
• Trip C4.1: What to do about 2,000 gallons of oil in a school leachfield: An environmental geologist’s perspective
• Trip C4.2: Creating resilient infrastructure in the face of sea level rise
• Trip C5: Impacts of rising sea level on prehistoric human occupation of the central Maine coast