As one of the initiatives associated with the creation of the Susquehanna River Greenway Corridor in Pennsylvania, new connections will be established between the river, the greenway, and river communities. These connections will be made in an attempt to strengthen and revitalize the river corridor. The connections will be facilitated through a variety of projects ranging from parks or scenic overlooks to large-scale commercial or industrial developments.It was the intention for this creative project to explore ways in which communities along the river could connect to the river and the greenway through the redevelopment of industrial brownfield sites that separated those communities from the river. It was believed that the redevelopments would create links between the communities, the river and the greenway and that these connections would generate enhancement for both the communities and the greenway.In order to make strong connections, the components of these redevelopment projects must be consistent with the existing greenway project. Therefore, the fundamental concepts and goals of the greenway were identified and from those concepts and goals, guidelines were created to help guide industrial redevelopment projects.The major goal of the greenway initiative is to enhance local communities and the Susquehanna River valley as a whole. Concepts for the greenway center on issues of access, the environment, local and regional history, recreation, and economic development.The guidelines that were created based on the greenway concepts are suggestions for techniques communities could use to incorporate these concepts into their redevelopment projects. Some of these suggestions are very specific to industrial brownfield sites. For example, the need for soil and groundwater remediation is identified. Other suggestions are based on general planning techniques that could be used in any development or redevelopment situation along the greenway. The guidelines focus on land use, creating physical and visual connections to the river, transportation and circulation, the incorporation of the historic component, the built and natural environment, and economic development.Attached, as an appendix to this creative project is a proposed plan for the redevelopment of an actual industrial site along the greenway. The plan was created using the guidelines from this project to demonstrate how the guidelines could work in a real situation. The plan includes an complete land use proposal for the site, plan graphics, individual perspective drawings that illustrate character, and explanations of various components or details of the plan meet the goals established in the guidelines. / Department of Urban Planning

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Geological Sciences & Environmental Studies Department, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

The western Piedmont of Pennsylvania is underlain by the Octoraro and Peters Creek Formations, and these formations were juxtaposed during Late Paleozoic dextral strike-slip shearing. North of the shear zone, the Octoraro Formation contains evidence for two metamorphisms and deformations prior to strike-slip shearing, whereas south of the shear zone the Peters Creek Formation contains evidence for only one. The discordance in metamorphic and deformational history across the shear zone suggests the now juxtaposed rocks originated in different parts of the orogen. A minimum of 150 km of orogen parallel dextral offset is proposed for the shear system based on palinspastic reconstruction of the Cambrian-Ordovician shelf edge between northern Maryland and southeastern New York. The Peters Creek Formation consists of three lithofacies: 1) graded metasandstone beds, 2) meta-quartz-pelite, and 3) massive metasandstone lenses within the graded bedded sequences. The occurrence of interlayered greenstone in lithofacies 1) suggests rift related deposition. These rift clastics consist of two submarine turbidite-fan systems defined by thick sequences of interlayered feldspathic metasandstone and schist, separated by a region underlain of quartz-schist. Comparison of the Peters Creek Formation with known Iapetan rift clastics in the central Appalachians of Virginia suggests the Peters Creek deposits are also related to Iapetan rifting. Transpressional structural models have been applied to oblique convergence tectonics, with the coeval development of contractional and transcurrent structures. Late Paleozoic post-Taconian deformation in the north-central Appalachian Piedmont of Pennsylvania and Maryland is characterized by two stages of dextral transpression. Stage one comprises a map-scale ductile conjugate shear zone pair (the Rosemont and Crum Creek shear zones) that developed at amphibolite facies. These conjugate shear zones were later overprinted, during stage two, by greenschist facies dextral shear zones that flank broad upright antiforms. Conjugate shear-pair criteria were applied to these structures to constrain the paleo-principal compressive stress orientations. During stage one σ1 and σ3 were shallowly plunging, with σ2 steeply plunging. During stage two σ1 and σ2 were shallowly plunging, with σ3 steeply plunging. The structural evolution and associated change in stress array suggests unroofing during transpression, consistent with the decrease in metamorphic grade. Post-transpressional deformation produced a pair of conjugate cleavages in the lower Susquehanna River region, and determined orientations of the principal compressive stresses suggest Late Paleozoic extension, possibly related to gravitational collapse. Previously published orthogonal collision and tectonic assembly models for the north-central Appalachian Piedmont are incompatible with the new data. Oblique collision tectonics resulted in complex dextral transpressional deformation and large orogen parallel displacement of crustal blocks. Tectonic models that do not include the transpressional orogen component of the tectonic history should be seriously reconsidered. / Ph. D.

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