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Going with the Flow: Geology’s Fall Departmental Field Trip 2022
On September 21, 2022
![students in a canoe](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DtripF2022tnail-280x190.jpg)
Last weekend the Geology Department set forth on our Fall departmental trip for a geological field trip down the James River in canoes. The
The Mystery of Mélange
On October 12, 2020
![Photo of Terri Zach taking field notes.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SGTMelFig3-280x190.jpg)
By Terri Zach ‘21 Mélange (mā-ˈlänj) is a fun word to say. We can thank the French for that, it’s a derivation of the
A Frenzy of Fall Field Trips 2: Flowing Low and Flying High
On October 8, 2019
![Aerial photo of river bottom through clear waters. A canoe is on the water's surface.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/FLFHthumbnail-280x190.jpg)
Earlier this summer I reported on the Gladstone Gladiators’ ‘games’ on and over the James River, all part of our research campaign to decipher
A Flood of Fun: The W&M Geology Department Field Trip on the James River
On October 4, 2017
![The W&M Geology flotilla afloat on the James River.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/foffig7-280x190.jpg)
Our Fall Geology Department field trip set out from Williamsburg to central Virginia, and the James River for a geological float trip down the
Reunited!
On July 14, 2016
![My canoe wrapped around an outcrop of Petersburg granite at the base of the Fall Zone in downtown Richmond Virginia. (photo by M. Scott Harris)](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CanoeOdeFig1-280x190.jpg)
This is an ode to a canoe. A year ago today, on July 14th 2015, I abandoned my canoe in the James River at
Summer Solstice in the Field: A River on Rock
On July 7, 2016
![Quartzite outcrop in the James River (view to the northeast). Geologist Megan Flansburg (W&M Geology ’15) measures the orientation of geologic structures. Note my 17’-canoe for scale- more on that old river-beaten canoe in my next post.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/RivOnRockFig7-280x190.jpg)
Summer is not a quiet time in the William & Mary Geology department. Pop onto the 2nd floor of McGlothlin-Street Hall this summer and you’ll
Paddle Trip Report 3 – The Long Dash for Home
On August 5, 2015
![An early morning on the James, approaching the I-295 bridge east of Dutch Gap.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PTR3fig1-280x190.jpg)
The last post ended with my canoe trapped and broken on a granite outcrop at the base of the Fall Zone in Richmond, Virginia.
Paddle Trip Report 2 – Across the Piedmont and Fall Zone
On August 3, 2015
![Day 4- Off into the morning mist on the Rivanna River.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PTR2fig4-280x190.jpg)
At the end of my last post we’d completed the first two days of an 8-day canoe trip from the Blue Ridge Foothills in
The Department that Floats Together…
On September 16, 2014
![Part of the W&M Geology flotilla adrift on the James River.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/geofloattrip1-280x190.jpg)
The latest addition of the Geology departmental field trip rolled out of Williamsburg last Friday and then floated down the James River on Saturday.