21 February 2014
Friday fold: Shuswap marble, British Columbia
Posted by Callan Bentley
Howard Allen, a blog reader from Canada, digitized a bunch of folds for us from his old Kodachrome slides. You’ll be seeing selections from these images over the weeks to come. Get psyched! There are some great folds in this batch. Here’s the first:
Howard’s description:
3D folded marble, Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, north of Sicamous, British Columbia. Specimen was bulldozed out of the way for a logging road. Photographed in 1980 when I had a summer job working for a mineral exploration company. I *so* wished I could have this one in my front garden.
Thanks, Howard! Everyone else: enjoy your Friday, and send me your fold photos!
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.