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Tall tales from a rock named Baby Blue

By Olivia Pearson ’21 Some 550 to 500 million years ago, in what would become central Virginia, a suite of sediments was deposited in

Neoacadian Poets in the Blue Ridge

Every spring my Earth Structure & Dynamics class visits the Appalachian Mountains on our weekend field trip. The goals of the trip are twofold:

A Mobile Mob: the Earth Structure & Dynamics Field Trip

This past Friday, the Earth Structure & Dynamics class assembled behind the Geology Department and then poured themselves into 3 vans and headed west

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