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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Earth Structure & Dynamics Field Trip 2015

By Chuck Bailey On April 23, 2015
In Academics, Faculty & Staff Blogs 
Measuring geologic structures at the Greenstone Overlook, Blue Ridge Parkway.
The Earth Structure & Dynamics class field trip is a springtime ritual; last weekend we headed over the hills and far away.  At our
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Rolling Deep with the Penrose Conference on Orogenic Systems

By Chuck Bailey On April 6, 2014
In Faculty & Staff Blogs, Research 
Shaded relief map of the Blue Ridge Mountains and adjacent terrain in the Inner Piedmont and Valley & Ridge provinces of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. The Penrose field trip examined rocks across this region.
This past week I co-convened a Geological Society of America Penrose Conference focused on Feedbacks and Linkages in Orogenic Systems.   An orogen is a
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