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10 February 2012
Cuprified wood
This is insane. Check it out – a malachitized and azuritized log, on display in front of the Geological Sciences building at the University of Texas at El Paso: Have you ever seen anything like that? It’s cool meets cool. Awesome.
Friday fold: kinky limy laminae
From the road that keeps on giving: new New Route 55, in West Virginia, west of Moorefield.
Callan Bentley is an assistant professor of geology at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia. He is particularly interested in structural geology and the evolution of the Appalachian mountain belt. Callan draws cartoons and writes for EARTH magazine. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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