9 February 2017
Posted by Callan Bentley
Do you remember the blog post four years ago about documenting the doomed outcrops at Scientists’ Cliffs, Maryland?
It was the site of gorgeous Miocene fossil exposures in the Calvert Formation.
Here’s what the site looks like now:
Photo by Peter Vogt
That ugly thing at the base of the cliff is a gabion, protecting the houses on the clifftop and making fossil access impossible. I’m glad we got there before it was “protected”…
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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