List of Abstracts

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Northeastern Pennsylvania

• “A very curious structure:” the Wangum Falls monocline on Middle Creek, Paupack Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
• Blasting rock, building locks, and hauling coal: geological influences on the construction and operation of the Delaware and Hudson (D&H) Canal, New York and Pennsylvania
• Plunge Into the Past or Go With the Flow: Multiple Hypotheses for the Origin of the Archbald Pothole, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
• From Easton and Wyoming to the Genesee Castle: terrain and military geology along the route of “Sullivan's March” (1779), Pennsylvania and New York
• The Standing Stone: a landslide-emplaced monolith on the North Branch Susquehanna River near Towanda, Pennsylvania
• Of rails, ropes, and rocks: terrain and engineering geology along the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Canal Co. and Pennsylvania Coal Co. (PCC) gravity railroads in northeastern Pennsylvania
• “Phoebe Snow” and the ice sheets: how the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad adapted its Scranton-to-Binghamton route to a glacially modified landscape, northeastern Pennsylvania and south-central New York
• What did happen on top of that rocky hill? Terrain, geology, and historical uncertainty at the Battle of Minisink (1779), New York-Pennsylvania
• Postglacial bedrock gorges in northeastern Pennsylvania: products of localized stream derangement resulting from blockage by glacial deposits
   

Eastern Pennsylvania

• “King coal” on the mountain: geology, mining history, and engineering of the Hazleton shaft colliery, northeastern Pennsylvania
• Late Neoproterozoic felsite (602.3 +/- 2 Ma) and associated metadiabase dikes in the Reading Prong, Pennsylvania, and rifting of Laurentia
• Anthracite miners at war: military geology and engineering of the Petersburg mine—June-July, 1864
   

Southeastern Pennsylvania

• Timing of metamorphism and deformation in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware
• Contrasting metamorphic histories within the Wissahickon Formation: evidence for subdivision and tectonic implications
• Structural and temporal interpretations of the Wissahickon Formation: the first 100 years
• Geologic mapping in Lancaster, PA, using CIR and LIDAR
• Is the Avondale massif Paleozoic? New insights from SHRIMP zircon and U-Th-total Pb monazite ages
• Metamorphism and deformation of the Glenarm Wissahickon in SE Pennsylvania piedmont
• The Embreeville thrust and Street Road fault: convergent tectonics in the central Appalachian piedmont, SE Pennsylvania
• Identifying the location of a Jacob Eichholtz painting using digital visualization
• A Silurian age for the Springfield Granodiorite: tectonic and metamorphic implications for the Central Appalachian piedmont
• Dividing the Wissahickon Formation in the Pennsylvania-Delaware Piedmont - a Progress Report
• Thoughts on the early Paleozoic tectonic setting of the Pennsylvania Piedmont
• The Wissahickon Formation – a persistent problem in the central Appalachian Piedmont
• A new look at the stratigraphy of the Pennsylvania piedmont
• The nature of the Setters Formation in the Pennsylvania piedmont
• Geochemistry: a tool for mapping metasedimentary rocks?
• Middle Jurassic deformation of the Birdsboro cam basin, Mid-Atlantic region, eastern U.S.A.
• White Clay Creek amphibolite: a Piedmont analog of the Catoctin metabasalt
• Bald Friar metabasalt and Kennett Square amphibolite: two Iapetan Ocean floor basalts
   

Central and South-central Pennsylvania

• Bald Hill Bentonites A, B, and C: History and New Data Since 1988
• Testing the feasibility of K-Ar dating of Pennsylvania cryptomelanes [potassium manganese oxides]
• The Gettysburg battlefield: geology's impact upon military history
• Lead and zinc in central Pennsylvania
• Plant fossil evidence for Late Pleistocene tundra conditions in south–central Pennsylvania
• The Lower Silurian Clear Springs Volcanic Suite: Sword Mountain olivine melilitite (433+/-3 MA) and Hanging Rock diatreme, Washington County, Maryland
• Lee vs. Meade at Gettysburg (July 1-3,1863): The influence of topography and geology on command decisions and battlefield tactics
• Use of public rail-trails for earth and environmental science education
   

Northwestern Pennsylvania

• Glacial depositional patterns: potential clues to basement faulting in northwestern Pennsylvania and adjacent areas
   

Western Pennsylvania

• What to do with carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired utilities? Geologic sequestration investigations of the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
• Proximal facies of the Upper Freeport and associated cyclothems in the vicinity of the Allegheny Front, northern Appalachian basin
• Titusville till stratigraphy and weathering complications, Booth Run section, Mercer County, Pa.
• Coalbed methane resources and activity in Pennsylvania
• Glacial stratigraphy, sedimentology, and geomorphology at Pymatuning Reservoir, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
• Some applications of isotope geochemistry for determining sources of stray carbon dioxide gas
• Origin of carbon dioxide gas contamination in groundwater and building spaces in western Pennsylvania - implications for subsurface carbon sequestration
   

Statewide

• Pennsylvania Geological Survey -- recent programs to serve the common good and the Commonwealth
• Origin of peloidal textures in Black River and Trenton carbonate petroleum reservoirs in the Appalachian basin
• Dolomite textures and porosity development in Trenton and Black River Formation (Middle Ordovician) HTD carbonate reservoirs, Appalachian basin, USA
• Molecular and isotopic differences between abiogenic hydrocarbons and thermogenic natural gases in the northern Appalachian basin, USA
• Geochemistry of natural gases from Trenton and Black River carbonate reservoirs, eastern USA – implications for deep basin hydrocarbon resources in the Appalachians
• Karst information on the cheap: data for the Phase I investigation
• Conserving Pennsylvania’s geology through the Pennsylvania natural heritage program
• PAMAP: New digital data to support geologic mapping and programs in Pennsylvania
• Sinkhole formation and their affect on stream migration: examples from Northampton and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
• The Pennsylvania rock and mineral kit re-invented
• A map of geologic units in Pennsylvania with the potential to produce acidic drainage
• Landslides in Pennsylvania through time and space
• Slopes and Sinks: Geologic Hazards in Pennsylvania in a Digital Age
• Greater predictive capability? Not always the answer
• Efforts of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey to preserve Pennsylvania’s geological heritage