- Ashe Metamorphic Suite - Eclogite (Optional Stop): Eclogite outcrop at the base of the Ashe Metamorphic Suite. Outcrop is exposed on roadcut on west side of road. Parking can be problematic here.
- Ashe Metamorphic Suite - Pelitic Schists: Pelitic schist outcrop on the north side of the road and under the NC221 Bridge by the New River in Ashe County.
- Ashe Metamorphic Suite - Ultramafic Body: Students can collect porphyroblastic garnet (>1 cm) chlorite schist and magnetite bearing chlorite schist at Greer Hollow in Ashe County.
- Blowing Rock Gneiss - Tweetsie Outcrop: The well-known “Tweetsie Railroad” outcrop exposes Blowing Rock Gneiss and cross-cutting felsic and mafic dikes.
- Blowing Rock Gneiss - Landslide: Students in Introductory laboratories visit a landslide that occurred in December 2006 south of Blowing Rock, NC.
- Blowing Rock Gneiss - New Roadcut: New roadcuts south of Blowing Rock, NC made during the widening of NC 321 expose Grenvillian Blowing Rock Gneiss cross cut by pegmatitic and basaltic dikes.
- Dunite Pod: Anhydrous and hydrothermally altered dunite pods occur throughout the Ashe Metamorphic Suite.
- Grandfather Mountain Formation Metaconglomerate: The NeoProterozoic Grandfather Mountain Formation includes metamorphosed sedimentary and metamorphosed volcanic rocks formed during failed rifting of the Grenvillian supercontinent at 735-745 Ma.
- Grandfather Mountain Formation - Beacon Heights Eolian Dunes
- Grandfather Mountain Quartzites at Beacon Heights, which preserve relict crossbedding
- Farmington Gabbro: More info coming soon. This field trip requires access to the Smith Grove Quarry, owned by Vulcan Materials (special permission required).
- Concord Plutonic Suite - Gabbro
- Concord Plutonic Suite - Syenite
- Topaz Collecting Site
- Triassic Basin - Solite Quarry (Cascade, VA): The Solite sedimentary rocks are considered to be among the richest and most productive Triassic terrestrial sequences in the world, with abundant and diverse insect, plant and vertebrate fossils.
