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Table of Contents - Field Guide 24

Archean to Anthropocene: Field Guides to the Geology of the Mid-Continent of North America

edited by James D. Miller, George J. Hudak, Chad Wittkop, and Patrick I. McLaughlin

Preface		v
1.	Late Paleoproterozoic deformational, metamorphic, and magmatic history of east-central Minnesota Terry Boerboom, Daniel Holm, and Randy Van Schmus	1
2.	Classic Precambrian geology of northeast Minnesota Mark A. Jirsa and John C. Green	25
3.	Geology and geochronology of Paleoarchean gneisses in the Minnesota River Valley R.L. Bauer, M.E. Bickford, A.M. Satkoski, D.L. Southwick, and S.D. Samson	47
4.	The Baraboo District—A North American classic L. Gordon Medaris Jr., Robert H. Dott Jr., John P. Craddock, and Stephen Marshak	63
5.	Copper deposits of the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan Theodore J. Bornhorst and Robert J. Barron	83
6.	Geology and sedimentology of the Paleoproterozoic Animikie Group: The Pokegama Formation, the Biwabik Iron Formation, and Virginia Formation of the eastern Mesabi Iron Range and Thomson Formation near Duluth, northeastern Minnesota Richard W. Ojakangas, Mark J. Severson, and Peter K. Jongewaard	101
7.	The North Shore Volcanic Group: Mesoproterozoic plateau volcanic rocks of the Midcontinent Rift System in northeastern Minnesota John C. Green, Terrence J. Boerboom, Susanne Th. Schmidt, and Thomas J. Fitz	121
8.	Sudbury impact layer in the western Lake Superior region Mark A. Jirsa, Philip W. Fralick, Paul W. Weiblen, and Jennifer L.B. Anderson	147
9.	Layered intrusions of the Duluth Complex James D. Miller	171
10.	Structural geology of the subprovince boundaries in the Archean Superior Province of northern Minnesota and adjacent Ontario Robert L. Bauer, Dyanna M. Czeck, Peter J. Hudleston, and Basil Tikoff	203
11.	Southeastern Minnesota karst hydrogeology: New insights from data loggers, tracing, LiDAR, and hydrophysics E. Calvin Alexander Jr., Jeffrey A. Green, Anthony Runkel, and Katherine J. Logan	243
12.	Distal signatures of Late Ordovician oceanic anoxia—New data from a classic epeiric ramp transect Patrick I. McLaughlin, Norlene Emerson, Brian Witzke, Bryan Sell, and Poul Emsbo	259
13.	Geology of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail David M. Mickelson, Mark D. Johnson, and Kent M. Syverson	285
14.	Ice advances and retreats, inlets and outlets, sediments and strandlines of the western Lake Superior basin Howard C. Hobbs and Andy Breckenridge	299
15.	Pre-and-early Agassiz outlets to the western Superior Basin J. Frederick Dean and Brian A.M. Phillips	317
16.	A glacial record spanning the Pleistocene in southern Minnesota Carrie E. Jennings, Alan Knaeble, Gary Meyer, Barbara Lusardi, and Terry L. Bovee, with contributions from Brandon Curry, Marylee Murphy, Vania Stefanova, and H.E. Wright Jr.	351
17.	Southern outlet and basin of glacial Lake Agassiz Timothy G. Fisher, Ken Lepper, Allan C. Ashworth, and Howard C. Hobbs	379
18.	Application of LiDAR and geophysics to archaeological investigations in the upper Mississippi River valley Ronald C. Schirmer and Chad Wittkop	401
19.	Flaming meteors, dark caves, and raging waters—Geological curiosities of western Wisconsin Jean Cunningham, Holly A.S. Dolliver, and William S. Cordua	411
20.	The Minneapolis Chain of Lakes by bicycle: Glacial history, human modifications, and paleolimnology of an urban natural environment Amy Myrbo, Marylee Murphy, and Valerie Stanley	425
21.	Holocene landscape evolution and erosional processes in the Le Sueur River, central Minnesota Patrick Belmont, Karen Gran, Carrie E. Jennings, Chad Wittkop, and Stephanie S. Day	439
22.	Hydrostratigraphy of a fractured, urban aquitard Julia R. Anderson, Anthony C. Runkel, Robert G. Tipping, Kelton D.L. Barr, and E. Calvin Alexander Jr.	457
23.	Get ready, get set, go … on a field trip David W. Mogk	477
24.	An excursion to the classic bedrock localities of northeastern Minnesota with a focus on teaching and learning in the field Karl R. Wirth, John Goodge, Dexter Perkins, and Alison Stokes	483
25.	An examination of the bedrock geology and the Mississippi River valley in the Twin Cities: Pedagogical strategies for introductory geology field trips Kate Pound, Karen Campbell, and Lee Schmitt	505
26.	Interpreting origins of landform sediment assemblages within the Upper Mississippi River Valley and tributaries in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota Curtis M. Hudak, Edwin R. Hajic, and Jeffery J. Walsh	525