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Important note: This field trip will be on private property. For insurance reasons and your safety, in order to board the motor coach in the morning, you must provide the following personal safety equipment: steel toe boots, hard hats, safety glasses, and high-visibility vests.
Wyndham Garden York DIRECTIONS
2000 Loucks Road
York, PA 17408
8:00 -9:00 Arrivals, Registration, Breakfast, Networking
9:00-9:15 Lobby > On-Boarding
4:30-6:00 Picnic dinner, refreshments, networking
Space limited to 40 enrollments.
Professional Development
Delaware and South Carolina: 60 mins. = 1 CEU
Pennsylvania: 50 mins. = 1 PDH
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We will be visiting two, active limestone and dolomite quarries, a day-lighted pinnacled bedrock surface, and an active underground limestone mine. We'll board a motor coach in the morning at a hotel in West York, pause for a box lunch at a municipal park, and return to the hotel at the end the day for a picnic-themed meal at about 4:30 PM.
The trip will provide an opportunity to observe the development of paleokarst and cave features, active mining operations (surface and underground), well developed and fully exposed karst pinnacles, sinkhole activity, various types of carbonate depositional environments (oolitic dolomite deposits, microbial reefs, limestone fanglomerates, etc.), and a portion of the Cambrian-Triassic unconformity extending along the southern margin of the Gettysburg rift basin.
These sites will provide classic examples of how structural and lithologic variations in carbonate rocks are critical factors controlling the areal extent of karst topography.
Space limited to 40 enrollments.
Hotel Room Rate: $109++ room rate is available at the Wyndham Garden York by dialing (717) 846-9500. This rate is available for the nights of June 7 and June 8, and if space is available, on June 9, also. Ask for the special Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists rate. Room cut-off date is May 18 or when sold out. Be sure to ask for the cancellation policy tied to this rate.