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Williamsburg’s Grand Canyon: A Modern Marvel Created by Mismanaged Stormwater

Many William & Mary students and some long-time residents describe Williamsburg’s landscape as flat, swampy, and even boring.  Indeed, parts of this landscape are

A Frenzy of Fall Field Trips 4: Spy Rock

Once again, the 2019 Geological Field Methods class was on the move this past weekend. We were on a mission to collect a suite

Power-washing the Paleozoic Petersburg Pluton

300 million years ago, vast quantities of magma intruded the Earth’s crust deep beneath what would one day become Richmond, Virginia. The magma that