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Bringing Back the Grenville! Preserving Virginia’s Geoheritage

By Chuck Bailey On August 28, 2022
In Faculty & Staff Blogs, Research 
Zach Price at the Rockfish River outcrop.
Virginia has a rich geological heritage that stretches back well over a billion years to an era of geologic time known as the Mesoproterozoic.
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On the Rocks – A Day at Nottoway Falls

By Chuck Bailey On October 7, 2016
In Academics, Faculty & Staff Blogs 
In this photo an older biotite-rich gneissic inclusion is surrounded by the younger granitic gneiss. Both rocks are strongly lineated (oriented NE to SW). Strain is heterogenous as evidenced by the deflection of the biotite-rich gneiss in a cryptic high-strain zone. The asymmetry and offset along the discrete fault is consistent with right-lateral (dextral shear). There is geological craziness at the far end of the biotite-rich gneiss.
In August, I described a set of cascades that form a major knickpoint on the Nottoway River in the Southside Virginia Piedmont. Last Saturday,
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