Testing Alternative Modals of Anorthosite Placement in the Adirondack Mountains

My research focus is on the exhumation of the Marcy Massif, a massive anorthosite-rich igneous body found in the high peaks of the Adirondacks. Old hypothesis explain that the anorthosite came up from the mantle in a diapiric, 'fist-like' way, though, due to recent reevaluations of how magma chambers act, this hypothesis is dated. Instead, it has been hypothesized that the Massif exhumed along fault lines. Testing this alternate theory included analyzing the strain of of bedrock along the borders of the Massif. Strain analysis at the Cooper Kiln landslide roughly accepted the hypothesis, though more data will be collected for more accurate results.