27 June 2014
Posted by Callan Bentley
Some folds this week from coastal exposures in western Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where I’m on vacation for one more day…
Acadian metamorphics (schist, gneiss), with injected granite pegmatite that has also been folded (and boudinaged):
Happy Friday!
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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We too are heading up to Maine for vacation in 2014. Great to see fellow rockhounds scoping out the area.