21 June 2019
Friday fold: The University of Wisconsin rock garden
Posted by Callan Bentley
I’m at a workshop in Madison, Wisconsin, this week.
I took the lunch hour today and walked over to the geology department to check out their rock garden and geology museum.
I was pleased to find a Friday fold in the rock garden: a limestone with cherty nodules/layering that has been folded….
Bonus: some nice bookshelfing/boudinage of the chert:
…And here’s another boulder of the same lovely stuff.
And here is another little train of cherty parallelograms:
Cool!
There was also a chunk of what appears to be the same thing in the museum inside…
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.