Not fifty-fifty Hurricane Matthew could halt Reynolds Geology students together with faculty from participating inward the 46th Virginia Geological Field Conference (VGFC) on Saturday, Oct 8!
The VGFC is a state-wide organization of professional, academic, together with amateur geoscientists who get together annually to quest maintain inward the geology roughly the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth of Virginia encompasses 5 physiographic provinces, together with contains a broad variety of igneous, sedimentary, together with metamorphic rocks that make inward historic catamenia from the Proterozoic to the present. These plain trips are especially beneficial to students equally a endangerment to network together with engage amongst a variety of geoscience professionals equally few states tin tally Virginia’s geological diversity.
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| (L-R): Nicole Achenbach, Karen Layou, Ekaterina Klokova, together with Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Bock. |
This year’s plain trip explored the effects of modern together with historical sea-level alter on sedimentary deposits of the Coastal Plain of Mathews County. Reynolds geology professor, Karen Layou, was a co-leader of the trip, along amongst Pete Berquist of Thomas Nelson Community College, Rowan Lockwood of the College of William together with Mary, together with Rick Berquist of the Virginia Division of Geology together with Mineral Resources.
Participating Reynolds students included Nicole Achenbach, likewise equally Ekaterina Klokova together with Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Bock, who are Honors Program students.
To abide by out to a greater extent than nigh the VGFC watch http://vgfc.blogs.wm.edu/
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