Along with the field activities, we intersperse several day-long field trips to locations in the Blue Ridge physiographic province, the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, and Mammoth Cave National Park. The intent of the field trips is to examine close-up the geologic features that comprise the bedrock and to gain insights into some of the geologic controls on the hydrogeologic framework.
The exact sites vary each year, but we typically visit the following:
Large joint in Whiteside trondhjemite at Granite City, June 2019
Dr. Andrea Ludwig explaining the operation of a constructed wetland treatment system at the UT dairy farm, May 2019