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Tall tales from a rock named Baby Blue
On April 6, 2021
By Olivia Pearson ’21 Some 550 to 500 million years ago, in what would become central Virginia, a suite of sediments was deposited in
The Mystery of Mélange
On October 12, 2020
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
The Chaos of Rocks
On October 6, 2020
Hello World! I’m Professor Chuck Bailey and this is the inaugural post for the William & Mary Structural Geology & Tectonics Research Group. Our
Comfortably Disoriented in the Blue Ridge Mountains
On May 13, 2016
Note: this post was written last September after the Fall 2015 Geology Department field trip, however it never got posted. As the Spring semester
Summer Research: Going with the Flow
On August 14, 2013
In April I delivered a talk on “Finding Faults in Old Virginia” as part of William & Mary’s Tack Faculty Lecture Series. Our study