19 December 2014
Friday Fold: Mist Mountain Formation in Canmore, Alberta
Posted by Callan Bentley
Let’s journey to the Cretaceous today, to see sandstones, shales, and even some coal strata that have been folded during the eastward thrusting that built the Canadian Rockies.
Here’s the same fold, in context, shot in GigaPan on a different day, from a different angle. Can you match it up?
Ben Gadd showed me (and my field class) this site last summer. It’s a little west of Canmore. There’s a map on the GigaPan page if you want to find it yourself. Thanks Ben!
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.