Topic: Professional Geologist Candidate Workshop: Petrology and Petrography Instructor: Steven Stokowski When: 10am-12noon, July 27, 2024 Where: Zoom presentation. To sign up, please click here Course Syllabus: This review will cover petrography and petrology relevant to minerals and rocks. Emphasis will be on facts and calculations that are likely to be presented in the ASBOG Exam. The petrography review … Continue reading "PG Workshop: Petrology and Petrography"

This presentation provides geologic background prior to a field trip to the Arabia Mountain on August 4, 2024 The speaker will be Dr. Aislin N. Reynolds, President's Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech Abstract: The formation of surface parallel exfoliation fractures in rock domes produces some of the most celebrated and curious landforms on Earth. In … Continue reading "Special Online Presentation–Thermally Induced Fracturing: New Insights from Active Exfoliation at Arabia Mountain, Georgia"

Following is taken from abstract by Dr. Aislin N. Reynolds, Georgia Tech The formation of surface parallel exfoliation fractures in rock domes produces some of the most celebrated and curious landforms on Earth. More than a century of observations, including direct measurement of active exfoliation events, highlight the key roles of solar heating and subcritical … Continue reading "Field trip to Arabia Mountain"

AGS Executive Committee Meeting via zoom

Atlanta Geological Society Monthly Meeting. Speaker: Paulo Hidalgo, Ga State University. Topic: Igneous and volcanic petrology

AGS Executive Committee Meeting via zoom

AGS Executive Committee Meeting via zoom