This post is an introduction to my new blog- Chuck’s Wonder World. I’m a geology professor at William & Mary; my teaching and field research take me to places from southeastern Virginia to Oman. There’s plenty of geological wonder in…| chuckbaileyrocks.pages.wm.edu
It’s Tye River Tuesday, and in today’s post we’re going into and all the way to the bottom of the Tye River. Nearly a year ago, on September 27th 2024, the remnants of Hurricane Helene, which a day earlier… Continue reading “GOING WITH THE FLOW – UNDER THE TYE RIVER”…| CHUCK’S WONDER WORLD
The September Equinox is here. It is one of the two dates every year in which the Sun ‘passes’ directly over the Equator, the divider of hemispheres – Latitude Zero˚. Ecuador rightly celebrates its position on the Equator and at… Continue reading “LATITUDE ZERO – Musings on the Equator”…| CHUCK’S WONDER WORLD
Here’s a weather video from the Mojave Desert in California, we’d taken a fine hike in Joshua Tree National Park and found ourselves on the summit of Warren Peak. At the summit there was a righteous wind blowing in from… Continue reading “MOJAVE DESERT RAIN SHADOW”…| CHUCK’S WONDER WORLD
Tonight, 56 years ago, on August 19th to 20th 1969, the remnants of Hurricane Camille deluged Nelson County, Virginia and in the process supercharged the Tye River with high flows and flooding that had never before witnessed. Across the Blue… Continue reading “MASSIES MILL AND THE HURRICANE CAMILLE FLOOD”…| CHUCK’S WONDER WORLD
For fans of Deep Time there are few things as exciting as an unconformity. An unconformity is a geologic contact separating rock masses of two different ages. Something in the rock record has gone missing or perhaps it was never… Continue reading “CHASING THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY”…| CHUCK’S WONDER WORLD
Missoula, Montana is a college town built on the flat ground flanking the Clark Fork River as it emerges from the Garnet Range and John Long Mountains. In March 2024, I was in Missoula visiting Mountain Press Publishing and its… Continue reading “GLACIAL LAKE MISSOULA: a weather video from the Pleistocene?”…| CHUCK’S WONDER WORLD
This post commences a series about Virginia’s Tye River, let’s call it Tye River Tuesday. It won’t happen every Tuesday, but my aim is to write about the Tye River every third or fourth week. Where is the Tye River? It’s in central… Continue reading “TYE RIVER TUESDAY”…| CHUCK’S WONDER WORLD
This post is an introduction to my new blog- Chuck’s Wonder World. I’m a geology professor at William & Mary; my teaching and field research take me to places from southeastern Virginia to Oman. There’s plenty of geological wonder in this world and my purpose here is to share that wonder in an approachable and scientifically interesting way.| CHUCK'S WONDER WORLD
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James Monroe was America’s 5th president and at the beginning of the 19th century he called Highland, an antebellum plantation in Virginia’s Blue Ridge foothills, home. In 1825, saddled by personal debt, Monroe sold the Highland estate and over the intervening two centuries, the plantation has had a numerous owners. Fifty years ago, philanthropist Jay Winston John’s willed the property to William & Mary. Today, the 500-acre property is a historic site, a working farm, and a W&M camp...| CHUCK'S WONDER WORLD