Category: Research
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Making Hay with the Alberene Dream Team
August is here and a new semester looms just around the corner. As the old saying goes it is best “to make hay while the sun shines” and Alberene Dream Team did just that, they baled a bunch of “research hay” during their summer field campaign in the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains. Let’s review. The…
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Mid-Summer Dream Team Report
The Alberene Dream Team has left the building and is now safely ensconced back in the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains. The Dream Team took a well-earned respite from fieldwork last week to compile field data in the Geology Department. In my original post I noted that the Alberene Dream Team is conducting research in the…
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The Alberene Dream Team
The summer of 2011 will not be a quiet one in the Geology Department. In addition to a full complement of Geology majors working on research, the department is abuzz with construction as we convert the geology library into a new and commodious classroom. More than a dozen Geology majors are currently on campus collecting…
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Who’s unconformable (Part 2)?
It took well over a week to crawl out from under the pile of 170 final exams, a ‘gift’ delivered by my Geology 110 course, but the grading is now done and the holidays are here. This quick post draws to a close the research that my structural geology seminar completed. Recall that the seminar…
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Who’s unconformable?
I spent the spare moments over Thanksgiving break working to complete a geologic map of the Big Run watershed in Shenandoah National Park. Fun stuff. My structural geology seminar has Monday, December 6th as a deadline to turn in their geologic map, cross sections, structural contour map, and research report – thus it is my…