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Transect Trip 18: Judy Gap

September 11, 2024March 18, 2010 by Callan Bentley

Fault-duplicated double section of the (Silurian aged) erosion-resistant Tuscarora Sandstone:

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Transect Trip 17: hackle fringe

September 11, 2024March 18, 2010 by Callan Bentley

Sweet hackles on the right; pen for scale.

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Transect Trip 14: ripple marks

September 11, 2024March 18, 2010 by Callan Bentley

Where are some ripple marks in the Hampshire Formation. Cell phone service is a lot more localized here in West Virginia, so we’ll see how many posts I manage today…

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Live geoblogging: assessment

March 17, 2010 by Callan Bentley

What do you think, folks? Do you like seeing field photos as I take them? Should I continue the Transect Trip instant photoblog series tomorrow as we traverse the Valley & Ridge?

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Update

March 16, 2010 by Callan Bentley

Just got back from three days of geology conferencing at the Northeastern & Southeastern Joint Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Baltimore. No time to blog whilst there, though I shot a dozen or so tweets up to my Twitter feed: small beer compared to a nice meaty blog post. Apologies if … Read more

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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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