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Crabtree Falls and Landscape Disequilibrium in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains
On November 29, 2022
![Oblique digital view of the Crabtree Falls area](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CrabtreeThumbnail-280x190.jpg)
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
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
A Highland Fling (Part 2): Learning from LiDAR
On April 22, 2022
![Oblie terrain view of the property](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HighlandLiDARThbnail-280x190.jpeg)
The Field Methods class finished our late Winter/early Spring fieldwork at William & Mary’s Highland in March. Over the course of four field excursions,
A Frenzy of Fall Field Trips 3: Going to the South Side
On October 20, 2019
![Thirty-four smiling participants group together in rugged shorts and tshirts for a photo on the gently sloping bedrock ledges of Nottoway Falls. Trees beyond the waterfall.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SSidethumbnail-280x190.jpg)
Moby, the American musician with a wide-ranging and stylishly downtempo sound, released an exceptional album entitled Play in 1999. My favorite song is South
The Longhill drainage ditch, when knickpoints move
On May 29, 2014
![Left- Oblique aerial view (from Google Earth) of the lower part of the Longhill Road drainage ditch, note the change in the channel above and below the knickpoint. Right- The knickpoint on a rainy day, note the change in the channel above and below the knickpoint.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/LonghillFig2-1024x6341-280x190.jpg)
Last Fall I started a ‘series’ focused on rivers and their watersheds. Six months have elapsed since that first post and another write up
Down a Lazy River
On September 27, 2010
![Geologists and their banners on the James. Photo by Linda Morse](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/flags21-280x190.jpg)
The Geology Department has a tradition of Departmental field trips that explore the landscape and geologic underpinnings of many locations in the mid-Atlantic region.