8 March 2012
On Monday, my field course students and I tried to find the Poleta folds, but I had failed to figure out in advance the best access point. Oops. That’s the way the cookie crumbles, when you’ve got big plans but not enough time to enact them with appropriate pre-planning. We had some happy exploration of the hills south of Route 168, though, and found tons of blocks of the Cambrian-aged …
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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