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President’s Message 2
GeologicNews of Interest 3
CNYAPG Calendar 6
SeptemberMeeting 6
I would like to thank the members who took the time to send in their ballots in July, officially electing the new slate oof officers. We are looking forward to serving the group and hoping to act on many of the suggestions offered by the membership.
At the top of my list is an expansion of the newsletter’s content and
an earlier deadline and mailing schedule. Roy Wagner has kindly volunteered
to be in charge of the publishing this year. All information to be
shared and ideas for articles can be sent to him at:
phone: 457-5200 fax : 451-0052
There have been many great suggestions for additions to the newsletter. Some of the things we’d like to include are: articles on geologic points of interest around the area; a listing of promotions, publications, and recognition earned by our membership; the highlighting of one local college in each issue; and our members’ favorite web sites
Since people have been rather shy about making contributions in the past, don’t be surprised if you get a call sometime this year soliciting your input. Please feel free to clip and fax to Roy any information, geologic to esoteric, that you think might be of intereest or entertainment to our membership.
Although we hope to get each month’s issue out in a timely fashion,
please take a moment now to pencil our meetings in your calendar for the
second Thursday of every month. December may be the only exception
to the rule if we hold our traditional joint meeting with the engineers
at the Carousel Sky Deck.
Our Vice President, Christin Gachowski, has been busy recruiting speakers for the coming year. In addition to our September speaker, we have received confirmation from Carlton Brett from the University of Rochester and Dr. Scott Bair of Ohio State University for the October and November meetings, respectively. Dr. Brett has been involved in the detailed study of early Paleozoic sequence stratigraphy in the Northeast. Locally, he has been working for the NYS Geological Survey creating detailed geologic maps of the quadrangles south of the City: Tully, South Onondaga, Otisco, Jamesville, and Marcellus.
Some of you may remember Dr. Brett as the presenter for our field trip to the Jamesville Quarry. We would like to continue offering an annual field trip to our group. This year we will be running our trip in the spring. This fall we have a unique opportunity becasue the NYSGA is holding its meeting at Hamilton College in Clinton from September 26 through 28. There are many wonderful field trips being offered, many in our own backyard, on topics that have been covered at pasat meetings. Of special interest to many might be the 2-day trip covering all facets of the geology of the Tully Valley.
This is the beginning of our fifth full year! We are no longer
a brand new organization. Through experience we have found out some
of the things that appeal to our members, but we need your continued participation
and feedback to keep things fresh. Please share your ideas and wishes
with our officers. This is your organization- make sure we know how
we can best serve your interests.
NYS COUNCIL OF PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGISTS SYMPOSIUM
Mark your calendars! on November 5, 1997, the Council will be sponsoring an informational symposium on the process of licensings geologists in NYS. Tentative speakers include:
Bill Kelly, President
Steve Englebright, State Assembly
TBA, Group Lobbyist
TBA, NYS Society of Engineers
The meeting will be held at the embassy Suites Hotel from 3:00 to 9:00
p.m. with dinner included. For more information, contact Gerry Gould
at 437-1142.
This year Hamilton College in Clinton, NY will be hosting the Annual GSA meeting. On Friday, September 26, there will be registration and a Welcoming Party from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Field trips take place on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The highlight of the weekend is the Banquet and Annual Business Meeting on Saturday from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. The keynote speaker is Dr. Cathryn Newton of Syracuse University whose talk is entitled "The Great Extinctions: Comparing Mechanisms". We are providing a brief summary of the field trips and workshops below. Also included is a pre-registration form for the meeting. For further information, you can contact David Bailey, meeting chair, at (315) 859-4142, fax (315) 859-4807, or e-mail: dbailey@hamilton.edu.
Saturday Trips & Workshops - September 27
A-1:Madison County Landfill & Environmental/Engineering Drilling
(Paul Miller, Madison County Dept. of Solid Waste, and Bill Morrow,
Parratt Wolff, Inc.)
Participants will spend the morning at Green Lakes State Park, where they will be met by a Parratt Wolff drilling crew, observe the drilling of a well, and discuss drilling and sampling methods for environmental engineering projects, description of geologic samples, preparing well logs, and monitoring well installation. After lunch, the group will travel to the Madison County Landfill and tour a new, state-of-the-art landfill, observe and discuss the closure of an old landfill, and discuss landfill construction and monitoring requirements.
A-2: Landform Evolution Along the Southeastern Shoreline of Lake Ontario
(Charles E. McClennen and Paul Pinet, Colgate University)
The trip presents field evidence for an evolutionary model of drumlin
bluff retreat along a segment of rapidly-eroding shoreline (0.31-1.5 m/yr)
of Lake Ontario. Participants will visit sites that represent the young,
mature, and old stages of bluff retreat, examining erosional and
depositional features.
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A-3: Relative Timing of Intrusion, Anatexis, and Deformation
in the Port Leyden Area
(Robert Darting, SUNY at Cortland and Frank Florence, Jefferson County
Community College)
Paritcipants will visit a unique nelsonite dike, which demonstrates
that anorthosistic magmatism occurred in this area, and will examine the
metasedimentary host rocks for evidence of contact heating and metamorphism
associated with anorthosite intrusion.
A-4: Environmental Indicators and Sedimentology - Seneca Lake, New York
(John D. Halfman and Dr. Donald Woodrow, Hobart & William Smith Colleges)
Participants in this trip will carry out the procedures used to examine
major environmental indicators for Seneca Lake. These data, and subbottom
profiles of lake sediments, will serve as the basis for a discussion of
the environmental status of the lake and of sedimentary processes active
in large lakes such as Seneca Lake.
A-5: Cambro-Ordovician Carbonate Facies of the Mohawk-Hudson Valleys
(Gerald Friedman, Northeastern Science Foundation)
After examining modern non-marine limestones, participants will study
facies of Cambrian-Ordovician age, which span a spectrum of paleoenvironments
from peritidal (near-tidal), including microbial reef mounds, to basinal.
A-6: Underground Mine Tour, Balmat Zinc Mine
(J.T. Johnson, St. Joe Zinc Mine)
Participants will have the opportunity to study the structure and petrology
of Grenville-age metasediments in the Northwest Adirondack Lowlands from
a subsurface perspective.
A-7: Morning Workshop on Holocene Climate Change
(Amy Leventer, Colgate University, Eugene Domack, Hamilton College,
Hank Mullins, Syracuse University, Geoffry Seltzer, Syracuse University,
and William Pattterson, Syracuse University) and Afternoon Field Trip at
Green Lakes State Park (Martin Hilfinger, Syracuse University)
In the morning, participants will attend a workshop on Holocene climate
change with a western hemisphere perspective. In the afternoon, participants
will visit Green Lake, a density-stratified lake with permanently anoxic
bottom waters.
A-8: Hydrogeology, Glacial Geology, and Mass Movement History of the
Tully Valley - Part !
(Bill Kappel, USGS, Don Pair, University of Dayton, Dawit Negussey,
Syracuse University, Robert Fakundiny, NYS Geologist, and Carlton Brett,
University of Rochester)
This trip is the first part of a 2-day trip that will continue as trip
B-4 on Sunday. Participants will experience a very comprehensive
study of the geology of the Tully area.
Workshops
W-1: The Underlying Influence of Geology on Human Events
(Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College)
This all-day workshop will examine the influence of geology on human
events in Egypt, South Africa, the Middle East, and NYS.
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W-2: Exploring Oceanography Resources on CD-ROM and the World
Wide Web
(Cynthia Domack, Hamilton College, and Jill Singer, SUNY College at
Buffalo)
This afternoon workshop for college faculty and secondary school Earth
Science teachers will be structured as a round table discussion of oceanographic
resources available on CD-ROM and the World Wide Web.
Sunday Trips - September 28
B-I: Stratigraphic Incompleteness: Milankovitch in the Manlius at the
Margin
(Peter Goodwin and E.J. Anderson, Temple University)
Participants will study the stratigraphic incompleteness of Manlius
sections near the western margin of the Helderberg Basin.
B-2: Herkimer Diamond Mine
(Hugh Humphreys)T
This half day trip is designed for anyone interested in exploring
for Herkimer diamonds, the famous doubly-terminated quartz crystals found
in central New York.
B-3: Eurypterids and Associated Fauna at Litchfield, a Classic Locality
in Herkimer County
(Victor Tollerton, Jr.)
Participants on this half day field trip will visit a classic eurypterid
locality and will have the opportunity to study one eurypterid community.
B-4: Hydrogeology, Glacial Geology, and Mass Movement History of the
Tully Valley - Part II
(Bill Kappel, USGS, Don Pair, University of Dayton, Dawit Negussey,
Syracuse University, Robert Fakundiny, NYS Geologist, and Carlton Brett,
University of Rochester)
This trip will continue examination of the geology of the Tully Valley
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September 2 "Cristobalite in Adirondack Garnet: A Remarkable Case of Mineral Formation and Preservation". Dr. Robert Darling of SUNY Cortland at Cornell University, 1120 Snee Hall at 4:30 pm.
September 9 "Glacial-Interglacial Variations in Carbon Cycling in the Coastal Upwelling Zone of Northwest Africa". Dr. Robert M. Moss of the Paleontological Research Institute at Cornell University, 1120 Snee Hall at 4:30 p.m.
September 27 The Great Extinctions: Comparing Mechanisms. Dr. Cathryn Newton of Syracuse University at the 69th Annual NYSGA Meeting. Hamilton College, Bundy Dining Hall. Dinner starts at 7:00 p.m
October 9 CNYAPG October Meeting with Dr. Carlton Brett of the university of Rochester.
.If you have events that you would like to include in the CNYAPG calendar, please contact Bill Gabriel of O’Brien & Gere Engineers at (315) 437-6100.
CNYAPG NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 1997
The Thursday, September 11 CNYAPG meeting will be held at the Glen Loch.
A cash bar will open at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30. Our guest
Mr. Melton, will speak at 7:30. Dinner is $13 (if reserved 48 hr
in advance) or $15 at the door.Make your reservations today by calling
O’Brien & Gere Engineers at (315) 437-6100 ext. 2656.See you there!