Ontario Field
Trip
Students and faculty from the five college summer field trip, 1999,
to Ontario, Canada, in front of a beautiful orange tectonic breccia
marble, Bancroft,Ontario.
Leigh Dumville ('00) examines folded sphalerite banded marble
of the Mud Pond ore body (2700' level), Zinc Corporation of American,
Balmat, NY 1999.
Rocks that flow! The hammer lies on a vertical mafic unit that
has been pulled apart by deformation. The more ductile marble has flowed
into the crack.
Hwy 62, south of Bancroft. Roadcut of Umfraville gabbro contact
zone.
Two hard hatted MHC geologists,
Katherine Sayre ('02) and Leigh Dumville ('00)
in the Balmat zinc mine, New York, 1999.
Caitlin Callahan ('00) amd UMass graduate student Liane Stevens in background.
Field trip's fearless leader, Steve Dunn (MHC
professor of geology),
rescuing the geo van from a ditch.
"Aw shucks, it was nothing. Someone had to do it."
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