You are browsing the archive for 1 April 2011 - Mountain Beltway.
1 April 2011
Friday fold: “Hinges Cemetery” by José Julian Esteban
Cretaceous calcarenite layers, folded along the coast of Spain (?). From the repository of geological images hosted by the European Geological Union, Imaggeo. I was reminded of Imaggeo earlier this week, and it’s a great place to go browse around for cool photos of geological things. It could use a better search interface, but oh well. It’s worth it to see images that are both geologically informative and beautiful, like …
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.