Maryland (2019)

Professor Ben van der Pluijm got lucky again on the 3-day Maryland Appalachians geology field trip with Michigan undergrads (and a 5 grads support team). Cold, but the 2-4" of snow never came. Great group and all sites are accessible, even with 6 minivans. We saw great structures, had nice group meals, and luxurious Super8 lodging.

The group spent the next morning measuring multiple stratigraphic sections in Oakes Quarry Park, east of Dayton, to characterize temporal and lateral variation in the lower Siliurian Brassfield Formation. This part of the section was chock full of fossils.