Fall 2022 Field Trip

Fall 2022 Field Trip

With president in tow, new geology students take a rockin’ road trip

On an early September Saturday, a small group of Radford University students and their professors stood at the East River Mountain overlook near Bluefield, Virginia, “on the very, very edge of the ancestral Appalachian Mountain range,” Associate Professor Jonathan Tso explained. They each peered through the raindrops over into West Virginia, where the colossal mountains that stand there now did not exist 250 million years ago.

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Oct 17, 2022