Geoscience Education in the Mountain State:
Student Field Trips
Student Field Trips
WVGES facilities are popular as a jumping-off point for student field trips. Our classroom serves as
a meeting, organizational, and instructional site. Field trips usually involve a walk along Cheat Lake
to see and discuss shoreline features and slope features within the canyon. Trips have visited local
surface coal mines to discuss coal geology and reclamation/environmental procedures. We have also walked
around nearby Coopers Rock State Forest
investigating depositional environments and weathering of large sandstone blocks, studying folding in
sedimentary rocks, and examining the environments of local streams and the implications of
geology on the history of the area.
Field Trip Gallery
For more information, contact Tom Repine, WVGES Education Specialist (repine@wvgs.wvnet.edu)
Page last revised: January 5, 2006
