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Neoacadian Poets in the Blue Ridge

By Chuck Bailey On April 29, 2019

In Academics, Faculty & Staff Blogs, Research, Study Away

Every spring my Earth Structure & Dynamics class visits the Appalachian Mountains on our weekend field trip. The goals of the trip are twofold:

Rolling Deep with the Penrose Conference on Orogenic Systems

By Chuck Bailey On April 6, 2014

In Faculty & Staff Blogs, Research

Shaded relief map of the Blue Ridge Mountains and adjacent terrain in the Inner Piedmont and Valley & Ridge provinces of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. The Penrose field trip examined rocks across this region.

This past week I co-convened a Geological Society of America Penrose Conference focused on Feedbacks and Linkages in Orogenic Systems. An orogen is a