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A submarine slump complex at Sandy Cove, Newfoundland
I’ve been traveling on the island of Newfoundland for the past few weeks, seeing world-class geology, but not having a lot of time to delve into blogging about it. I have been posting a few pictures...
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Friday fold: Watern Cove
On the seaward edge of southeastern Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula, there’s a special place called Mistaken Point, where fossils of ancient soft animals are preserved in abundance. On my way there...
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Friday fold: Noonday Dolomite in Mosaic Canyon
Because I’m putting together a field course for spring break 2020 to Death Valley California, I was looking through old Death Valley photos this week, from the last time I went to that special place....
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Friday fold: Anticline in Glacier National Park
Working on a virtual field experience for Glacier National Park this weekend, I came across this amazing GigaPan of a portion of central Glacier by Joe Giersch of the USGS: What really struck me about...
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Friday fold: Colorado cluster
Reader Carl Brink laments the lack of robust recent Friday folds, and he’s decided to do something about it! From Colorado’s Front Range, he sends this image of an intensely folded granite dikelet...
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Friday fold: Lynchburg Group
Last weekend, I went to get my second vaccination, and because of the ridiculous quirks of the way the vaccination campaign is (dis)organized, I had to travel to Lynchburg, Virginia, to get the shot....
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Friday fold: The Blue Ridge Tunnel
On Wednesday of this week, I went for the first time to the newly-opened-to-the-public Blue Ridge Tunnel, a county park in Nelson and Augusta counties, Virginia. Built in the 1850s to serve as a...
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Another example of overturned bedding
One of my favorite tricks is using bedding / cleavage intersections to identify tectonically inverted strata. On a field trip yesterday to check out soapstone quarries in the Albemarle/Nelson border...
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Friday fold: Kinked Lynchburg metasediments near a soapstone body
Earlier this week I showed an outcrop of overturned finely-bedded Lynchburg Group meta-sediments (Neoproterozoic in depositional age). Today, we revisit that same site, but this outcrop is 30 m away,...
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Well-preserved mudcracks in Belt argillite, Glacier National Park, Montana
I spent last week in western Montana, teaching my annual “Geology of Glacier National Park” for Montana State University’s Master’s of Science in Science Education program. As usual, it was a...
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