15 November 2011
Posted by Callan Bentley
Today, I share with you eight images that I took yesterday on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park: Blocks of Antietam Formation quartzite (meta-quartz sandstone) of Cambrian age, used in the low rock walls of an overlook parking pull-out. They all bear lovely Skolithos trace fossils (seen end-on, and in cross-section):
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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