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Friday fold: Floor paver in the Atlanta airport

November 17, 2023 by Callan Bentley

On my way back to Virginia from Hawaii, I had a three hour layover in the Atlanta airport. There, I spotted this charismatic stone paver on on the terminal floor. It showed folds, and so I snapped a photo, but it also shows plenty more… An annotated copy: Happy Friday, all!

Categories building stone, folds, foliation, Friday Fold, georgia, granite, metamorphism, partial melting 2 Comments

Friday fold: Pinelog Formation

September 16, 2024September 16, 2011 by Callan Bentley

Reader Jacob Langseth sent in this image of a lovely fold that he recently saw in the Blue Ridge province of Georgia. It’s located in an old CCC rock quarry, off of the Pine Log Creek Trail system, in Bartow County. You can click on that first image to make it bigger and see a … Read more

Categories blue ridge, folds, Friday Fold, georgia, structure, weathering Leave a comment

About Callan

A headshot of Callan Bentley. 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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