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Field Trip: The Last Ice Age in Western Pennsylvania: A Changing Climate as Seen in the Glacial Landscapes (420 mins.)

  • June 14, 2019
  • 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • DoubleTree by Hilton – Pittsburgh Cranberry 910 Sheraton Drive Mars, PA 16046
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  • Includes continental, box lunch, color field guide, and post-event refreshments/munchies. Member registration closes June 7 or when sold out.
  • Includes continental, box lunch, color field guide, and post event refreshments/munchies. Government rate registration closes June 1 or when sold out.
  • Includes continental, box lunch, color field guide, and post event refreshments/munchies. Non-member registration closes June 1 or when sold out. If you'd like to register early and also save $100 over the cost of non-member enrollment, return to home page and click Join.

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Professional Development Conversion Formulas
DE, SC 60 mins. = 1 CEU
PA 50 mins. = 1 PDH


Field Trip Guides

Dan A. Billman, P.G., C.P.G.
Billman Geologic Consultants, Inc.

Albert D. Kollar, Director, Invertebrate Paleontology
Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Download Itinerary and Guide Bios


During late Pleistocene (Wisconsinan) time, the vast Laurentian Ice Sheet approximately 2-mile thick prograded southward to western Pennsylvania. This field trip to northern Butler and eastern Lawrence Counties will review the classic landscape features as evidence of the Last Glacial Maximum approximately 20 k.y. ago. With stops at the Jacksville Esker, the West Liberty Bog, the Muddy Creek Oilfield Exhibition, Slippery Rock Gorge, the Wisconsinan Terminal Moraine, Kame Gravel Pit and Cleland Rock.


Cleland Rock Overview



Not part of the trip, but certainly of interest to the theme of a changing climate landscape is the tundra biome. Tundra represents a colder climate usually associated with the high latitude treeless plain of the Arctic. During the Last Glacial Maximum tundra biome extended from the Wisconsinan terminal moraine at Moraine State Park as far south as Savanah, Georgia. In its wake, left relic climatic features within the Pittsburgh Low Plateau Section, such as, the rock city at McConnells Mill State Park, the Cranberry Bog, the late Wisconsinan Bridgeville Bog, and the flora of the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area in the Monongahela National Forest of eastern West Virginia.



Stages of Glacial lake drainage during ice retreat. Present-day locations, for reference, shown in gray.




Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Room Rate:  $117++.  PCPG has reserved a block of rooms for the nights of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, June 11, 12, and 13, 2019. To make a reservation, telephone the DoubleTree by dialing 1 (800) 222-8733 and request the rate for Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists.  Room rate expires May 21, or when sold out.  Be sure to ask what the cancellation policy is for this rate.




 

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