Page 3 --- Geology
Summer Field Camp Photos
Students in the
1970 class measuring a section of the Lower Carboniferous Price
Formation on Va Rt 16 at the Smyth-Tazewell Counties line. Group
shown includes Ron Tucker, Penny Whitten, David Ward, Jim Mulholland
(Massachusetts), High Rowlett, John Buckley, John Atthowe, Charles
Haag, Raymond Hunnicutt, and others (it's hard to id folks from
the back from 35 years ago)
This spectacular
bedding plane exposure of mudcracks in the Ordovician Moccasin
Formation was exposed during construction of US 58 west of Gate
City, VA. This group of students from the field class of 1971
was the first group to study it. Unfortunately, gravity and collectors
had reduced most of the extent of this outcrop by early 2000.
This is a classicimage
of a geology professor teaching students how to measure the attitude
of bedding. Dr. Jim Craig is using an outcrop of the Cambrian
Nolichucky Formation to instruct Larry Cooke and Mark Slusarski
(striped shirt), members of the 1971 class.
More images coming
later.