What are GeoAdventures?
GeoAdventures are designed to allow the reader to learn about a particular geologic point of interest in Delaware’s Piedmont province and then take a short field trip to that area. Want to know more...
View ArticleThe Bringhurst Gabbro: A GeoAdventure in the Delaware Piedmont
A field trip to Bringhurst Woods Park is appropriate for students in grades 5 and up (10 years and older), and provides an opportunity to observe intrusive plutonic igneous rocks that have intruded...
View ArticleBiotite Tonalite
Fine- to medium-grained, equigranular biotite tonalite usually occurring as rounded boulders. Tonalites are leucocratic (15 to 25% modal mafic minerals), light gray to buff on fresh surfaces, and...
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A.I.duPont Students see geology of the Delaware Piedmont
November 17, 2010William "Sandy" Schenck lead a field trip through the Delaware Piedmont for the A.I. duPont High School Earth Science Class. The trip made use of the Wilmington-Western Railroad and...
View ArticleWilliam “Sandy” Schenck participated in the Manhattan Prong Workshop Sep 6-7,...
September 15, 2014The Rocks of the Manhattan Prong show similar tectonic, metamorphic, sedimentary, geomorphic, and igneous features to our own rocks here in northern Delaware and southeastern...
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