CEN 514 - Geology of Long Island - Fall, 2005

Instructors

• Glenn Richard
• Steve Englebright
• Mirza Beg

Grading

• Midterm Exam - 30%
• Final Exam - 35%
• Project -  35%

Date

Topics and Events

Web Sites

Introduction to Course

• Campus geology

Geologic History of Long Island and the Surrounding Region

• Tour of High Pressure laboratory
• Tour of Museum
• Grenvillian Orogeny
• Rifting of Rodinia
• The Taconian Orogeny
• The Acadian Orogeny
• The Alleghenian Orogeny
• Rifting of a Continent
• Fault Basins of the East Coast

• Geologic Terminology
• Bedrock Geology of NYC
• New York State Museum
• Adirondack Mountain Club
• Bedrock Geology of NYC
• Adirondack Journal
• Paul Smiths College
• Taconic and Acadian Orogeny
• Appalachian Highlands
• Seismic Event: Au Sable Forks, New York Earthquake, April 20, 2002
• NEIC Earthquake Bulletin for AuSable Forks Event
• Earthquake History of New York
• New York Seismicity
• Amityville Quake 1884
• Massena Quake 1944

Geologic History of Long Island and the Surrounding Region (continued)

• Cretaceous Delta

Vegetation and Geology

• North Shore Woodlands
• Pine Barrens
• Bogs

• The Long Island Pine Barrens Society
• New York Flora Association
• New York Metropolitan Flora Project
• USGS - Northeast Wetland Flora
• The Nature Conservancy - Long Island Chapter
• Long Island Grasslands
• Long Island Pine Barrens

Surface Water

• River systems
• Pollution studies

• Nissequogue River
• Carmans River
• Connetquot River
• Calverton Ponds

Groundwater

• Hydrogeology
• Long Island aquifer system

• Long Island Groundwater Research Institute

Tidal Wetlands

• Salt Marshes (Flax Pond)

• Flax Pond Digital Library

Environmental Molecular Science

• Methodologies

• CEMS

Flax Pond and Smith Point Field Trip

Schedule:

• 9:00 AM - Meet at loading dock of Earth and Space Sciences Building and go to Flax Pond
• 12:15 PM - Lunch
• 1:45 PM - Meet at western underpass in Smith Point County park parking lot
• 5:00 PM - Leave Smith Point

• Flax Pond Digital Library

Midterm Examination

Coastal Processes and Geomorphology

• Beaches
• Spits
• Barrier Islands
• Effects of Sea Level Change
• Long Island Sound
• Sustainability

• Long Island Sound Study
• Connecticut Office of Long Island Sound Programs
• The Long Island Sound Foundation
• Environmental Protection Agency: Beaches
• New York State Museum GIS Datasets
• GIS Information
• Flax Pond Digital Library

Glacial Geology

Meeting time: 9:00 AM - Please be on time or risk missing this mandatory field trip.

Meeting place: Earth and Space Sciences loading dock. All participants must meet there, since the first stop of the trip will be on the Stony Brook campus.

Carpooling: Please arrange to carpool, since a large caravan would likely become fragmented during the trip.

Glacial Geology

• Boulders on Stony Brook Campus May Reveal Geology of Long Island Sound Basement
• Grain-Size Analysis and Provenance of Long Island Loess

Environmental History of Jamaica Bay

Grandifolia Sandhills

• Geology Notes: Gateway National Recreation Area
• Grandifolia Sandhills

Final Exam

• Similar in format to the midterm and cumulative, but emphasis is on material covered since midterm

Project Reports Due