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Let’s Date Rocks! A Geochronological Journey from the Outcrop to a Numeric Age
On February 13, 2023
![Microscopic image of sample NJ-14](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Nailah_tnail-280x190.jpg)
By Nailah Johnson ’24 Last summer I worked with a team of William & Mary undergraduate students to study the geology of central Virginia. In particular,
What’s WMÜTTS?
On November 4, 2022
![WMÜTTS Crew](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/wmutts-crew3-280x190.jpg)
By Chuck Bailey Scientists like their acronyms, and in some fields the more acronyms the better. Earlier this year I received a GSA AGeS-DiGS
Making Movies on Location
On July 27, 2022
![Geologists at the East Portal of the Blue Ridge Tunnel](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/BRTunnelersTnail-280x190.jpg)
By Meara Carlin ’22, Morgan Sanders ’22, and Chuck Bailey As summer runs ever onward the Structural Geology & Tectonics Research Group continues to
Can You Dig It? The Return of the Geologist
On July 12, 2022
![Young girl standing on a green hillside with a white and yellow house in the background](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/MSBlogFig1-280x190.jpg)
By Morgan Sanders ’22 In 2007, I made my first trip to Highland as a curious six-year-old. Now 15 years later, I have returned
B to the 7TH (B7): A summer of research in the Blue Ridge
On June 22, 2022
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By Chuck Bailey It’s summertime and the Geology department is a happening place as our research efforts are in full swing. We’ve got a
The Blue Ridge Bachelor? A Day with the Schuyler Sisters
On March 7, 2022
![The Blue Ridge Bachelor - Will you accept this rose quartz?](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/BRBthumbnail-280x190.jpg)
By Chuck Bailey Saturday, Feb. 26th was a day like no other. I participated in both a William & Mary departmental field trip while
Nine Down, Seven Across for Planetary Geology
On February 18, 2022
![A tan colored moon on a black background](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EuropaThumbnail_hr-280x190.jpg)
Meara Carlin ’23 There is an interesting grey area when dealing with planetary geology. The first thing someone usually thinks of when geology is
Girl Put Your Records On: Tell me about your thesis
On December 13, 2021
![A record playing on a record player](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/victrola-record-players-R4Rdi0EfBws-unsplash-280x190.jpg)
Katie Cullen ’22 There’s a certain something about the ritual of putting on a record that makes the entire experience more delightful than just
Coast to Coast with the Schuyler Sisters
On October 14, 2021
![A classroom of masked people standing in groups facing the front of the room](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CtoCfig1-280x190.jpg)
By Chuck Bailey Last Saturday began with a celebratory Homecoming reception in the Geology department and finished twelve hours later, and 2,400 miles to