Virtual Field Trip Guides : United States and Canada

Alaska	Northeast and Middle Atlantic
Canada	South and SouthEast
Central, Midwest, and Great Plains	South and SouthWest
Hawaii	Texas
Miscellaneous	West and Pacific Coast

South and Southwest United States

New Mexico and Texas

• Aden Crater Volcano. New Mexico volcano near El Paso, Texas.
• Afton Lava Flows. New Mexico near El Paso, Texas.
• Alamogordo, New Mexico - El Paso, Texas Geologic Road Log.
• Albuquerque's Environmental Story. Sandia Manzano Mountains, Rio Grande, and West Mesa. New Mexico.
• Balcones Escarpment. Multidisciplinary information about geology, hydrology, biology, and culture surrounding the region. Texas.
• Big Bend National Park Virtual Feild Trip. Texas A&M Department of Geology.
• Black Mountain. Cinder cone volcano in New Mexico near El Paso, Texas.
• Brazos River -- Brazos Bend State Park, Texas: Fluvial sedimenation in a meandering river floodplain. Near Houston, Texas.
• Brief Geological History of the El Paso-Juarez (ELP-J) Region. Texas.
• Carlsbad - Alamogordo (New Mexico) Geologic Road Log.
• Carlsbad Caverns. National Park, New Mexico.
• Carrizozo Malpais.Basaltic lava flow in New Mexico.
• Coal Geology of the Paleocene-Eocene Calvert Bluff Formation (Wilcox Group) and the Eocene Manning Formation (Jackson Group) in East-Central Texas: 1995 Field Trip for The Society for Organic Petrology, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-595.
• Cucharas Pass and Trinchera Peak. Northern New Mexico
• Dark Canyon - Sitting Bull Falls - Rocky Arroyo Geologic Road Log. Texas and New Mexico.
• E-rock. A virtual field trip to Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, brought to you by Rob's Granite Page. Texas.
• El Paso, Texas - Carlsbad, New Mexico Geologic Road Log.
• Franklin Mountains of El Paso, Texas.
• Geologic Wonders of Texas.
• Guidebook to the Geology of Travis County. Includes geologic history, rocks, Balcones Fault Zone, Pilot Knob, and fossil collecting in the Austin area. Texas.
• Houston Geological Society: a Virtual Field Trip to Sites of Geologic Interest in the Houston Area. Texas.
• Introduction and Virtual Geologic Field Trip to the Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, New Mexico-West Texas.
• Kilbourne and Hunts Maar Volcanoes. New Mexico near El Paso, Texas.
• Llano Uplift. "Igneous and metamorphic heart of Texas." From Rob's Granite Page.
• Llano Uplift Mineral - Fossil Locations and Road Logs. Texas.
• McKittrick Canyon (Guadalupe Mountains National Park) Geologic Road Log. Texas and New Mexico.
• Permian Reef Complex (Delaware Basin) of West Texas.
• Sequence Stratigraphy, Evaporite Withdrawl Welds and Brecciation and Dolomitazation in the Edwards Group of West Texas.Virtual Field Trip # 6, Lafayette Geological Society Spring Field Trip 2003.
• Tertiary Coals in South Texas. Anomalous Cannel-Like Coals of Webb County (Claiborne Group, Eocene) and Lignites of Atascosa County (Jackson Group, Eocene) - Geologic Setting, Character, Source-rock and Coal-bed Methane Potential. 1999 AAPG Annual Convention Energy Minerals Division Field Trip # 15. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-301.
• University of North Texas: GEOG 1610: Structural geology and landforms of Dallas County. Includes Taylor Marl, Austin Chalk, Eagle Ford Shale, and Woodbine Sandstone. Texas.
• Valley of Fire. Lava flow in New Mexico.
• Virtual Field Trip to the Basalts of the Zuni-Bandera Malpais. El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico.
• Virtual Geologic Tour of New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources.
• Walking the Forty Acres: Building Stones -- Precambrian to Pleistocene. University of Texas at Austin campus.
• Walking the Forty Acres: Waller Creek Wilderness Trails and Adjuncts. University of Texas at Austin campus.
• Walnut Canyon (Carlsbad Caverns), New Mexico, Geologic Road Log.

Southwest, Arizona, the Grand Canyon, and Four Corners

• Bryce Canyon National Park and the Grand Staircase. PDF.
• Field trip guide to selected studies of the Southwest Mineral and Environmental Investigations Project in Southeastern Arizona. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-544.
• Geology of the Colorado Plateau.. PDF file. By Annabelle Foos, Geology Department, University of Akron.
• Geology of Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim . PDF file. By Annabelle Foos, Geology Department, University of Akron.
• Grand Canyon Explorer: the Geology of the Grand Canyon.
• Grand Staircase. Guide to the region from the Grand Canyon to Bryce Canyon.
• Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona (a.k.a. Meteor Crater) From the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
• Sedona and the Verde Valley Region. Central Arizona.
• Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. Near Flagstaff, Arizona.
• Virtual Field Trip of the American SouthWest. University of Lethbridge field trip.

South and Southeast United States

Alabama, Appalachians, Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ozarks, Tennessee, West Virginia

• Carolina Geological Society Field Trips. 1952-present guidebooks available to download.
• Carolina Coastal Science: Educator's Guide.
• Dimension Stone. Mt. Airy Granite Quarry, North Carolina. Largest open-faced granite quarry in the world.
• Geologic Excursions in the Southern Appalachians: North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama . Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama.
• Geologic Story of the Ocoee River. U.S. Geological Survey General Interest Publication. The Ocoee River Gorge along US Highway 64 in S.E. Tennessee.
• Hurricane Katrina -What Happened? A field trip: the geology of the Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
• Kentucky River Fault Zone Geologic Base Map. Ordovician limestones and shales along KY highway 27 south of Lexington.
• Paleozoic Rocks of the Ozark Region. Designed for historical geology and petrology classes.
• Pendleton County Tour.West Virginia
• Red River Gorge Geology Field Trip Guide. Tour of edge of eroding plateau. Kentucky.
• Selected Structural Features and Associated Dolostone Occurrences in the Vicinity of the Kentucky River Fault System. PDF file.
• Summary of Findings of the West-Central Florida Coastal Studies Project. Barrier Island studies.U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-303.
• Virtual Field Trips. Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky.
• Wetumpka Impact Crater Page. Alabama.

West and Pacific Coast United States

Rocky Mountains, Basin and Range, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah

• Bryce Canyon National Park. Utah.
• Bryce Canyon National Park and the Grand Staircase. PDF.
• Craters of the Moon National Monument. Basaltic lava field. Idaho.
• Dash with the Dinosaurs: PDF. A Mountain Bike Trek to the Purgatoire River Dinosaur Trackway and the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary Impact Layer of Southeastern Colorado. La Junta and Trinidad, Colorado.
• Earth Science Week 1999: Field Trip #1 for Families and Rockhounds, Turbulent TImes in the Truckee Meadows. PDF. Near Reno, Nevada.
• Earth Science Week 2000: Geology along America's Loneliest Highway. PDF. A field trip for families and rockhounds. U.S. Highway 50: geology between Carson City and Sand Mountain, Nevada.
• Earth Science Week 2001 Field Trip #1: Peavine Peak - Geology, Plants, and Mining History. PDF. A field trip for families and rockhounds. Near Reno, Nevada.
• Earth Science Week 2001 Field Trip #2: Fossils and Ancient Lakes. PDF.A field trip for families and rockhounds. Western Nevada.
• Earth Science Week Field Trip #2, October 16, 1999: What's Shakin' in the Neighborhood? Road Log . PDF. Faulting and earthquakes. Nevada.
• Energy resources and changing land use, Front Range of Colorado.AAPG-EMD field trip guide, in association with the 2001 AAPG-EMD Annual Meeting.
• Exploring East of the Summit: a Field Trip Guide to Steamboat Springs, Lake Tahoe, and the Comstock Area. PDF. Nevada.
• Flood Hazards of Manitou Springs, Colorado.
• Front Range Geologic Hazards Field Trip. PDF.Colorado.
• Geology 101 Field Trip, Fall 1995. Geology of Latah County, including Moscow, Idaho.
• Geology Field Trip: Capitol Reef and Henry Mountains. Central Utah.
• Geology of Capitol Reef National Park. PDF. Utah.
• Geology of Colorado National Monument.PDF. Southwestern Colorado.
• Geology of Dinosaur National Monument.PDF. Utah and Colorado.
• Geology of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.PDF.
• Geology of the Moab Region (Arches, Dead Horse Point and Canyonlands). PDF.
• Geology of Zion National Park, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park and Snow Canyon State Park.PDF.
• Geology, Water Quality, and Avalanch Hazards of the Ouray-Silverton Area, Southwest Colorado. PDF. Earth Science Week Field Trip, October 9, 2000.
• Glacier National Park Electronic Field Trip. Audio tour. Montana.
• Glacier National Park Virtual Field Trip. Alpine glacial landscapes. Montana.
• Goodsprings District. Spring Mountains, southern Nevada.
• Grand Teton National Park Index. Wyoming.
• Great Basin Paleozoic Carbonate Platform: Facies, Facies Transitions, Depositional Models, Platform Architecture, Sequence Stratigraphy, And Predictive Mineral Host Models PDF.Field Trip Guidebook – Metallogeny of the Great Basin Project, August 17–22, 2003. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1078.
• Great Falls Area Geology Field Trip. Missouri River erosion, deposition, and incised meanders. Montana.
• Guide to the Geology of the Glenwood Springs Area, Garfield County, Colorado. PDF.Earth Science Week Field Trip, October 13, 2000.
• Indian Peaks, Colorado Front Range. Altitudinal variation of vegetation and glacial geomorphology.
• Laramide Structures along the Northeastern Flank of the Colorado Front Range. PDF.
• Log for Joint SEPM-Colorado Scientific Society Field Trip, September 20-21, 1986: Late Paleozoic Sedimentation and Laramide Tectonics of the Sangre de Cristo Range, from Westcliffe to Crestone, Colorado. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-249.
• Mineral Resources of Jefferson Country. PDF. Colorado.
• Mineralogy of Latah County, Idaho.
• Regional Stratigraphy Field Trip. Central Montana.
• Rock Canyon Self-Guided Hiking Tour. Near Provo, Utah.
• Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. Links to their photos and field trips.
• Singing and Booming Sand Dunes of California and Nevada.
• Slides of the Fluorspor, Beryllium, and Uranium Deposits at Spor Mountain, Utah .
• Symposium on the Geology of the Front Range.PDF. Colorado.
• Water Flows Underground from Mountains in Central Montana to Manitoba.

Pacific Coast, Oregon, and Washington

• Description: Newberry Volcano and Caldera, Oregon.
• Geology of North Cascades National Park: Virtual Field Trips. North Cascade Highway (State Route 20), Baker Lake road, and Mount Baker Highway (State Route 542). Washington.
• Indian Heaven Volcanic Field, Washington. Volcanic field midway between Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams
• Malheur Field Trip. Geological features of the High Lava Plains and Northern Basin and Range. Spring Class - Geology 161, Portland Community College. Oregon.
• Mount Hood, Oregon. History, construction of cone, glaciation, eruptive history, historical activity.
• Mount Rainier, Washington. Eruptive history, road log.
• Mount St. Helens, Washington. Eruptive history and volcanic activity.
• Mount St. Helens, Washington: Ape Cave Lava Tube.
• Mount St. Helens, Washington: Points of Interest.
• Oregon Coast Range: Spring Field Trip. Geology 203, Portland Community College.
• Report: Field Trip Guide to the Central Oregon High Cascades.
• Report: Geologic History of Mount Hood Volcano, Oregon -- a Field-Trip Guidebook. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-263.
• Report: Guide to Geologic Field Trip Between Lewiston, Idaho, and Kimberly, Oregon, Emphasizing the Columbia River Basalt Group.
• Report: Road Guide to Volcanic Deposits of Mount St. Helens and Vicinity. Online version of U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1859. Southwest Washington - Northwest Oregon.
• Spokane Valley - Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer. Idaho and Washington.

Pacific Coast, California

• Beck Spring Iron Deposit. Kingston Range, California.
• Calico mining district. California.
• California Geotour: Online Geologic Field Trip Guides. California Geological Survey.
• Coastal Geology of Natural Bridges State Park. California.
• Coastal Erosion Field Trip. Solana Beach to Del Mar, San Diego County, California.
• Colosseum Mine. In Ivanpah mining district. California.
• Death Valley National Park Virtual Geology Field Trip. U.S. Geological Survey. California.
• Description: Lassen Peak Volcano, California.
• Earthquakes. Field trip of the Santa Cruz region after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. California.
• Field Trip to Owens Valley / Mammoth Lakes. Cenozoic/Mesozoic Volcanism of the Eastern Sierra Nevada.
• Geologic Tours of Southern California: Virtual Field Geology. California State University, Long Beach.
• Geology and Coastal Hazards in the Northern Monterey Bay, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-438.
• Geology and Natural History of the San Francisco Bay Area: a Field-Trip Guidebook. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2188.
• Geology Field Trip of San Diego County. Coast to Mountains. California.
• Geology of California's Golden Gate: a Virtual Field Trip.
• Geology of Mojave National Preserve. California.
• Geology of the Smith River. Virtual Trip through the Josephine Ophiolite.
• Independence Dikes and Mafic Rocks of the Eastern Sierra. 1998 Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section Field Guidebook.
• Los Angeles Area Geology. California.
• Mohawk Mine. Ivanpah Mining District, California.
• Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine. Ivanpah Mining District, California.
• Northern California Geological Society Spring 1996 Field Trip. "Who's on first? -- Strike-slip, contraction, and Neogene paleogeographies in the greater San Francisico Bay area."
• Peninsula Geological Society , Mt. Shasta and the Klamath Mountains Field Trip Photo Album and Guidebook.
• Peninsula Geological Society, Spring Field Trip 2000, Salina/Nacimiento Amalgamated Terrane, Big Sur Coast, Central California.
• Quaternary and Late Pliocene Geology of the Death Valley Region: Recent Observations on Tectonics, Stratigraphy, and Lake Cycles (Guidebook for the 2001 Pacific Friends of the Pleistocene Fieldtrip). U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0051.
• Quaternary Stratigraphy, Drainage-Basin Development, and Geomorphology of the Lake Manix Basin, Mojave Desert. Guidebook for Fall Field Trip, Friends of the Pleistocene, Pacific Cell, October 4-7, 2007.
• Roadside Geology of Yosemite Valley. California.
• San Andreas Fault and the San Francisco Bay Area.California.
• Snow White Talc Mine. California.
• Tour of the Hayward Fault. California.
• USCS Campus Field Trip. Geology of campus at University of California Santa Cruz.
• Virtual Field Trip: San Andreas Fault and Hayward Fault, San Francisco Bay Area, California.
• Walking tour of the Calaveras Fault in Hollister, California. South of the San Francisco Bay area.
• War Eagle Mine. Near Tecopa, California.
• Waterman Mine. Near Barstow, California.

Northeast and Middle Atlantic United States

Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New York

• Adirondack Mountains: New Mountains from Old Rocks. Text and figures adapted from Chapter 4 of "The Geology of New York: a Simplified Account" by the NYS Geological Survey.
• Field Trip through part of the Mesozoic Hartford Basin Connecticut.
• Field Trip to the Pineo Ridge Moraine/Delta Complex, Eastern Maine.
• Geology of the Sideling Hill Road Cut. Maryland Geological Survey.
• Geology of Staten Island.New York.
• Landslide Susceptibility in the Tully Valley Area, Finger Lakes Region, New York. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-615.
• Overview of New York Geology. Adapted from : Educational Leaflet 33.
• St. Lawrence University Geology Club 1997 Spring Field Trip. Niagara Falls region of New York.
• Trip into the Hard Rock Terranes of Southeastern Connecticut.

Central, Midwest, and Great Plains, United States

Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin

• Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska. National Park Service geology fieldnotes.
• Conference on Fractured Glacial Tills: PDF. Field trip guide to selected fractured glacial till sites and soils in Central Ohio.
• Department of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1999 Lake Superior Field Trip - Part 1 .
• Field trips - La Salle Anticline. Field trips by Ellin Beltz. Illinois.
• First Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana, Made During the Year 1869. Brought to you Indiana University.
• Fox Ridge State Park and Its Geology. Central Illinios
• Geological Field Trips -- Kankakee Area LaSalle Anticline and Sandwich Fault. Field trips by Ellin Beltz. Illinois.
• Geology along Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Field trips by Ellin Beltz. Illinois.
• Geology of Central-Western South Dakota.
• Geology of Eastern South Dakota.
• Geology of the Black Hills. South Dakota.
• Geology of the Fargo-Moorhead Region: North Dakota - Minnesota. Red River Valley.
• Glacial Features in DeKalb and Kane Counties and their Economic Importance. Virtual field trip of Northern Illinois.
• Guidebook - Geology of Northeastern Kansas. GeoKansas, Kansas Geological Survey.
• Shoreline Processes in Chicago.
• Southern Illinois Field Trip. Field trips by Ellin Beltz.
• Starved Rock State Park and Surrounding Areas. Illinois.
• Thornton Quarry Field Trips. Field trips by Ellin Beltz. Illinois.
• Virtual Field Trip of Rocky Branch. Geologic features of Rocky Branch Nature Conservation Area, Illinois.
• Virtual Guide for Volo Bog and Moraine Hills. Geologic, botanic, and water resource history of Northeastern Illinois.
• Virtual Silurian Reef. Milwaukee Public Library distance-learning project. Wisconsin and Illinois.
• Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota.

Hawaii, United States

• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: a 3D Photographic Geology Tour.
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. National Park Service Geology Fieldnotes.
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Self-guided Field Tours.
• Virtual Field Trip. Oahu, Big Island, Maui, Kahoolawe, Molokai, and Kauai.

Alaska, United States

• Alaska Volcano Observatory . List of volcanoes by region and major volcanic areas.
• Glacier Bay. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Scientific Visualization Studio. Includes Quicktime animations.
• Pleistocene Gubik Formation, Skull Cliff, Alaska. Pleistocene sedimentary rocks on the coast of the Chukchi Sea in Northern Alaska.

Canada

• Crowsnest Pass: a Virtual Field Trip. Crowsnest Pass on Highway 3 (Crowsnest Trail) west of Lethbridge, Alberta.
• Cypress Hills, Alberta. Virtual Field Trip, Southeastern Alberta.
• Fossils of Nova Scotia.
• Fossils of the Fundy Coast. Canada's Digital Collections Program.
• Fundy National Park of Canada. Parks Canada.
• Geological Survey of Canada (open file 2161, field trip 6). Taken from a Field Trip Guidebook (8th IAGOD Symposium) on Geology and Ore Deposits of the Timmins District, Ontario.
• Kananaskis Country. University of Calgary.
• Milk River, Alberta. Virtual Field Trip.
• Oldman River. Alberta.
• Sable Island. Canada's Digital Collections Program.
• Virtual Fieldtrip of Lethbridge. Alberta.
• Virtual Field Trip of the Castle Crown Wilderness. Southwestern Alberta.
• Virtual Field Trip of the Landscapes of Nova Scotia.
• Walking Tour of Rocks, Minerals and Building Stones of Prince Street, Truro.Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Mineral Resources Branch, Information Circular ME 21, 1988.
• Walking Tour of Rocks, Minerals and Landforms of Victoria Park, Truro. Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Mineral Resources Branch, Information Circular ME 11, 1987.
• Waterton Lakes National Parks of Canada. Natural Wonders and Cultural Treasures.
• Waterton Lakes Virtual Field Trip. Southern Alberta.

Miscellaneous

• Canada's Digital Collections archived at Library and Archives Canada.
• Geologic Guidebooks of North America. Database maintained by the GeoRef Information Services.
• Geology of National Parks. 3D and Photographic Tours Featuring U.S. Park Geology and Natural History.
• Geology: Rocks of Northern Ireland.
• School of Rock: an Ongoing Research Expedition for Earth and Ocean Science Teachers.
• Tour of Park Geology. Listing of Park Geology Tours provided by U.S. National Park Service.
• Virtual field trips. Moine thrust belt, pakistan Himalayas, Internal Alps, Dead Sea Fault system, Norway. Earth Sciences, University of Leeds.