13 November 2020
Posted by Callan Bentley
This Friday fold is a bed of Tonoloway Formation dolostone, from a pile of scree below a roadcut in Grant County, West Virginia, on Corridor H. It’s got two lovely “stairstep” style folds superimposed on it.
I love folds that are expressed in three dimensions. Very satisfying.
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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This is great! Do you have coordinates or the nearest town? TIA.
Sure – https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1923124,-79.1562554,81m/data=!3m1!1e3