2 May 2011
My structural superpower
Posted by Callan Bentley
If I had a structural superpower, it would be to shoot en echelon tension gash arrays from my fingertips:
Photo by Sharon Ruggeiri
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on 24 August 2011
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.
Well of course! Nothing gets you street cred in th super hero community like being able to fire off tension gash arrays.
Seriously though, dying to know how these work and where you can usually find them.
Love the blog!
Brittle/ductile shearing of rocks (in this case, limestone): http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/gol_135/massanutten/images/conjugate_tension.jpg
[…] And then, of course, we mustn’t neglect the same feature forming in limestone: […]
Those are spectacular.