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Traipsing across the Piedmont: A Day Trip thru Geology and History
On March 3, 2024
![W&M geologists at Appomattox Court House](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Traipsing_Fig9-280x190.jpg)
The W&M Geology Departmental Spring field trip left the Atlantic Coastal Plain last Sunday morning for a quick dash westward into the Piedmont: a
Jamestown and Geodiscovery
On January 23, 2024
![Colorful map of Jamestown Island showing most of the island as submerged land](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/JTIthumbnail-280x190.jpeg)
Jamestown Island is a low patch of ground in southeastern Virginia that’s witnessed its share of American history. Settler colonists arrived from England in
Aground on the Hampton Bar with the Sea Making a Fair Breach
On April 25, 2023
![Imagery of Hampton Roads and the shipwreck site showing the shipwreck just west of Fort Monroe and northwest of Fort Wool](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thumbnailer-280x190.jpeg)
200 years ago this month, in early April 1823, a ship foundered and sunk onto a shallow sand bar in Hampton Roads, Virginia. On
William & Mary Returns to Oman
On January 17, 2023
![A sunrise in the desert](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WMO23_tnail-280x190.jpg)
In January 2020, I co-led the William & Mary study abroad program to Oman (commonly known as Rock Music Oman). As we returned home
Crabtree Falls and Landscape Disequilibrium in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains
On November 29, 2022
![Oblique digital view of the Crabtree Falls area](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CrabtreeThumbnail-280x190.jpg)
Back in October, early on a Saturday morning my Earth’s Surface Processes students loaded into vans and we headed west to the Blue Ridge
Going with the Flow: Geology’s Fall Departmental Field Trip 2022
On September 21, 2022
![students in a canoe](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DtripF2022tnail-280x190.jpg)
Last weekend the Geology Department set forth on our Fall departmental trip for a geological field trip down the James River in canoes. The
Bringing Back the Grenville! Preserving Virginia’s Geoheritage
On August 28, 2022
![Zach Price at the Rockfish River outcrop.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GGrenTnail-280x190.jpg)
Virginia has a rich geological heritage that stretches back well over a billion years to an era of geologic time known as the Mesoproterozoic.
A Highland Fling (Part 2): Learning from LiDAR
On April 22, 2022
![Oblie terrain view of the property](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HighlandLiDARThbnail-280x190.jpeg)
The Field Methods class finished our late Winter/early Spring fieldwork at William & Mary’s Highland in March. Over the course of four field excursions,
The Return of a Tradition – The Earth Structure & Dynamics Class Field Trip
On March 28, 2022
![Students in front of an outcrop.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TraditionTnail-280x190.jpeg)
An important tradition in my academic life is the Earth Structure & Dynamics class field trip. This weekend trip takes William & Mary students