Also, prepare a short term paper ( 1,000 words plus APA style reference list) on one topic chosen from the list below. - Newark Basin sedimentary deposits and their relationship to Milankovitch cycles. - How the Newark Basin relates to its "sister" basins along the east coast of North America (Newark Supergroup). - Rift tectonics: How they shape a basin and the deposits typically found therein. - The geology and igneous petrology of the Palisades Sill. - Economic mineral deposits found within the Newark Basin sequence. - The Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event. - "CAMP" basalts - Dinosaurs that lived in this area and their fossils. - The geologic history of the Great Falls in Paterson..