17 January 2011
Posted by Callan Bentley
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
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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Glad you enjoyed Dyk’s volume! I’m working under him on my undergrad thesis, doing a project on Mesozoic extension in the Great Gulf (just north of Mt. Washington). His bedrock geologic map is awesome! I wish I had it blown up to full poster size. I hope that for the next printing, basalt dikes that I and last year’s thesis students had documented make it onto the map – for the upcoming Pittsburgh GSA conference, I’ll be presenting some of this and Dyk will present a poster on the findings from the past two field seasons with special attention to dikes.
Looking forward to NE GSA in Pittsburgh; see you there!