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Traipsing across the Piedmont: A Day Trip thru Geology and History
On March 3, 2024
![W&M geologists at Appomattox Court House](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Traipsing_Fig9-280x190.jpg)
The W&M Geology Departmental Spring field trip left the Atlantic Coastal Plain last Sunday morning for a quick dash westward into the Piedmont: a
We Need to Go Deeper – the Blueschists and Eclogites of Oman
On November 20, 2020
![A blueschist thin section showing angular fractured shapes in green, blue, purple, white and gray.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/OmanBEfig4-280x190.jpg)
By Nick Carpenter ’21 Have you ever wondered what goes on deep within the Earth, far deeper than any human has ever ventured? Well
A Field Day
On October 12, 2012
![A view from the bottom. A diabase dike (d) cutting anorthosite (a). Note the white pieces of the older anorthosite entrained in the diabase dike.](https://wmblogs.wm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Dike2012x1-280x190.jpg)
It is a rare weekday when I can slip away from the College. Yesterday with my colleague Brent Owens and research fellow John Hollis