6 March 2010
Differential weathering in the Manhattan Schist
Posted by Callan Bentley
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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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Looks like you went to NY for spring break. See if you can find that outcrop with the glacial striations in Central Park.
What museum did you see this morning?
Well deduced! The museum this morning was MoMA.
NYC geology: Inwood (upper Manhattan) lost its marble, the Bronx is gneiss, and Manhattan is full of schists đ