Blue Ridge Mountains - All Posts
Crabtree Falls and Landscape Disequilibrium in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains
On November 29, 2022
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
Making Movies on Location
On July 27, 2022
By Meara Carlin ’22, Morgan Sanders ’22, and Chuck Bailey As summer runs ever onward the Structural Geology & Tectonics Research Group continues to
A Frenzy of Fall Field Trips 4: Spy Rock
On November 10, 2019
Once again, the 2019 Geological Field Methods class was on the move this past weekend. We were on a mission to collect a suite
A Frenzy of Fall Field Trips 1: The Rockfish River Watershed
On October 3, 2019
Note: this is the first installment in what will be a frenzy of posts about recent fall field trips in the William & Mary Geology
Comfortably Disoriented in the Blue Ridge Mountains
On May 13, 2016
Note: this post was written last September after the Fall 2015 Geology Department field trip, however it never got posted. As the Spring semester
Glimpses of the Past: the Catoctin Formation – Virginia is for Lavas
On February 17, 2014
In 1969 Virginia embraced the travel slogan Virginia is for Lovers and at various times during the last 45 years William & Mary geology students have
Blue Ridge Rocks: the microscopic view
On December 14, 2011
The Alberene Dream Team spent the summer of 2011 in the field working to understand the geology of the eastern Blue Ridge. As summer
The Alberene Dream Team
On June 10, 2011
The summer of 2011 will not be a quiet one in the Geology Department. In addition to a full complement of Geology majors working
Who’s unconformable (Part 2)?
On December 23, 2010
It took well over a week to crawl out from under the pile of 170 final exams, a ‘gift’ delivered by my Geology 110