- Trip 1 takes us through rocks that were originally deposited on the Laurentian passive continental margin during the drift period of continental break-up.
- Trip 2 looks at rocks that are associated with a much more tectonically active period of time: the rifting period of continental break-up.
- Trip 3 passes through passive shelf rocks, as well as rift clastics, but also looks at rocks deposited in deeper water off of the continental shelf on the continental slope-rise.
- Trip 4 focuses on the Shelburne Falls Arc rocks that developed over an eastward dipping subduction zone located east of Laurentia.
- Trip 5 looks at the basement rocks that underlie all of western Massachusetts.
