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17 January 2011
Book review video 2
Books mentioned: Bones, Rocks, and Stars: the Science of When Things Happened, by Chris Turney Northwest Exposures: a Geologic Story of the Northwest, by David Alt & Donald Hyndman Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley, by Robert Sharp & Allen Glazner Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology, by David B. Williams The Presidential Range: Its Geologic History and Plate Tectonics, by Dykstra Eusden
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.