Offered Field Trips

The following field trips have been confirmed for IGC 2028.

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FT01 • Juneau–Whitehorse FT02 • Burgess Shale FT03 • Dinosaur Provincial Park FT04 • Sudbury Impact FT05 • Carbox Geopark FT28 • Foreland & Omineca

FT01 - Glaciers, Tectonics, and the Klondike Gold Rush Trail

4–5 Days • Alaska, USA & Yukon, Canada

Explore spectacular geology along the historic corridor from Juneau, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon. Participants examine glacial landscapes, active tectonics, the southern Denali Fault, and evidence of rapidly changing glaciers while following the historic Klondike Gold Rush route. The excursion also highlights the close relationship between regional geology, mining, and human history.

  • White Pass Railway

  • Rapid glacier change

  • Mining geology

Bove Island, S Klondike highway, S of Carcross.

Image credit: Jeff Freymueller

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Highlights

  • Glacial landscapes

  • Denali Fault

  • Klondike Gold Rush

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FT02 - Burgess Shale Walcott Quarry

1 Day • Alberta

Visit the world-famous Burgess Shale in Yoho National Park to explore one of Earth’s most important fossil localities and discover exceptionally preserved Cambrian life.

Walcott Quarry with Wapta Mountain behind

Image credit: Paul Johnston and Christopher Collom

Highlights

  • Burgess Shale fossils

  • Walcott Quarry

  • Cambrian Explosion

  • Yoho National Park

  • Cambrian geology

  • Glacial landscapes

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FT03 - Dinosaur Provincial Park

1 Day • Alberta

Explore Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its exceptional Late Cretaceous fossils, spectacular badlands, and world-class paleontological discoveries.

  • Late Cretaceous geology

  • Vertebrate palaeontology

  • Dinosaur Provincial Park

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

Image credit: Royal Tyrell Museum

Highlights

  • Dinosaur fossils

  • UNESCO World Heritage Site

  • Badlands landscapes

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FT04 - Sudbury Impact Structure

5 Days • Ontario

Explore the Sudbury Impact Structure, one of Earth’s largest and best-preserved meteorite impact sites, renowned for its world-class nickel-copper-PGE deposits and exceptional geological exposures.

Shattercones Fourth Avenue

Image credit: Paul Golightly

  • Shock metamorphism

  • Impact melt sheet

  • Ore-forming processes

Highlights

  • Meteorite impact crater

  • Sudbury Igneous Complex

  • Ni-Cu-PGE deposits

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FT05 - Carbox Aspiring Geopark

3 Days • Newfoundland & Labrador

Cabox Aspiring Geopark explores one of the world’s classic ophiolite complexes, where participants examine spectacular evidence of Paleozoic plate tectonics, ocean-floor formation, arc volcanism, and continental collision.

Trout River Stranded Gabbro Stack

Image credit: Paul Wylezol

  • Coastal scenery

  • Mélanges

  • Arc volcanism

Highlights

  • Bay of Islands Ophiolite

  • Pillow lavas

  • Interference folds

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FT28 - Geology of the Foreland and Omineca Belts

4–5 Days • Alberta & British Columbia

Explore the tectonic evolution of the Foreland and Omineca belts across southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. Participants examine fold-and-thrust structures, metamorphic rocks, and magmatic processes that record the development of the Canadian Cordillera.

Field Geology in the Canadian Cordillera

Image credit: Photo courtesy of the field trip leaders

Highlights

  • Foreland fold and thrust belt

  • Omineca Belt

  • Metamorphic core complexes

  • Rocky Mountain Trench

  • Structural geology

  • Canadian Cordillera

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