12 August 2015
Rockies student projects, 2015
Posted by Callan Bentley
Another year, another batch of student projects from my Rockies field course, each intended to elucidate some aspect of the geology of the Montana / Wyoming Rocky Mountains for the general public:
- Geology of Grand Teton National Park (Marcell)
- Tilted glaciolacustrine beds near Glacier National Park (James)
- Blog on various aspects of the field course’s geology (Zack)
- A geologist’s guide to the Beartooth Highway (Peri)
- The Sawtooth Range and the Disturbed Belt (Leslie)
- YouTube video on the Purcell Sill and Helena Formation stromatolites (Nathan)
- The geology of hiking the trail to Grinnell Glacier (Lauren)
- The geologic story of the Bridger Range (Anna)
- Grinnell Glacier (Hannah)
- Grinnell Glacier hike (Emily)
- Sun River Canyon (Matthew)
- Sun River Canyon (Kathlene)
- Ringing Rocks Pluton (Theresa)
- Basement Complex (Jake)
- Basement Complex (Xiuming)
- Absaroka Volcanic Province (Brad)
- Boulder Batholith, Ringing Rocks, and the Lewis Thrust (Karisha)
- Geothermal Features of Yellowstone (Travis)
- The Belt Supergroup in Glacier National Park (John)
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.