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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
A Highland Fling (Part 1)
On February 10, 2022
![W&M geologists strike a pose in a cow pasture.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/highland-thumbnail-4-280x190.jpg)
The new semester at William & Mary is well underway and after this weekend, we’re off and running with the Field Methods in the
Oman’s Geological Triple Point
On March 13, 2017
![The village of Qantab, Oman with the waters of the Gulf of Oman visible in the distance. The craggy and steep hills are underlain by Cretaceous ophiolite.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/QantabFig2-280x190.jpg)
Qantab is a village at the eastern edge of the Muscat metropolitan area, it’s hemmed in by steep rocky hills, and flanked by a
On the Rocks – A Day at Nottoway Falls
On October 7, 2016
![In this photo an older biotite-rich gneissic inclusion is surrounded by the younger granitic gneiss. Both rocks are strongly lineated (oriented NE to SW). Strain is heterogenous as evidenced by the deflection of the biotite-rich gneiss in a cryptic high-strain zone. The asymmetry and offset along the discrete fault is consistent with right-lateral (dextral shear). There is geological craziness at the far end of the biotite-rich gneiss.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NewNottoFig4-280x190.jpg)
In August, I described a set of cascades that form a major knickpoint on the Nottoway River in the Southside Virginia Piedmont. Last Saturday,
Field Methods 2014: Put Your Hiney in the Piney
On October 2, 2014
![The 2014 Field Methods crew in front of a Blue Ridge backdrop. Our hosts Ann and Jerry Samford (W&M Geology 1977) are on the left.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/HineypineyFig2-280x190.jpg)
When many of my academic colleagues (both at W&M and further afield) learn that I write a blog it is commonly followed by an
Summer Research: Introducing the Wayne WonderMonkeys
On July 29, 2013
![The Wayne WonderMonkeys at the Wayne County W (whitewashed volcanic boulders on a hilltop above Bicknell, Utah).](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/wwmfig21-280x190.jpg)
As I noted in my last post our summer geologic field research took us to the Beehive State. Our work is primarily focused on