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19 November 2012

Monday macrobug: Brown marmorated stinkbug

These guys were all over the exterior of our house in October, trying to get into the interior. Here’s the view from the outside, looking down on the back of stinkbug: Nasty species – invasive, destructive to plants, persistent in its desire to be indoors, and most pointedly, downright smelly.

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18 November 2012

Another batch of GigaPans from the M.A.G.I.C. project

My students Alan Pitts, Chris Johnson, Robin Rohrback and I have been busy adding to the Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection. Check out a few of these new GigaPan images: link link link link link link link

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16 November 2012

Friday fold: Neoacadian Inner Piedmont trip, part IV: Migmatitic metagraywacke

The Friday fold comes from a stop on the “Neoacadian Inner Piedmont” field trip that Callan attended prior to the GSA meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week.

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15 November 2012

Neoacadian Inner Piedmont trip, part III: Mesozoic cataclasite

Quartzite, shattered and healed and shattered again and again and again. It’s cataclasite, seen in the North Carolina Piedmont and inferred to be Mesozoic in age due to its brittle style of deformation.

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14 November 2012

Milestones

Callan reflects on major moments this week in his personal and professional lives.

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13 November 2012

Neoacadian Inner Piedmont trip, part II: more Walker Top

Today, I’ve got a batch of additional photos of the Walker Top Granite to share, variably mylonitized (sheared out under ductile conditions)… Nice garnets in some spots: Delta porphyroclast: Lovely sheared-out rocks…

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12 November 2012

Monday macrobug: big green worm

Found this caterpillar in the dirt the other day outside my house… Here it is (in the palm of my leather work gloves – the width of a finger may be seen blurrily in the background): I spent some time looking for matches on Bug Guide and in Garden Insects of North America by Whitney Cranshaw. The book wasn’t as helpful as the website this time. Looks a lot like …

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11 November 2012

Fence lizard

It wasn’t all rocks and games on the Neoacadian Inner Piedmont trip. I also saw a lizard:

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10 November 2012

New GigaPans from the M.A.G.I.C. project

My students Chris Johnson and Robin Rohrback have been busy adding to the Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection. Check out a few of these new GigaPan images: link link link link link

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9 November 2012

Friday fold: Boomer Falls

The Friday fold is seen at one of the stops on Callan’s pre-GSA-Charlotte field trip: a small waterfall in North Carolina’s Inner Piedmont.

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