Lafayette College Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

The Stratigraphic Column of our rock garden is underway. More info to come soon

Marcellus formation and Mahantango formation loaded and on their way to campus.

What did professor Sunderlin find in the bloomsburg formation that is super cool? Come see the rock at Van Wickle to find out. #EarthScience4EarthDay

Rocks on a trailer. The Palisades are coming to Lafayette.

Here at Lafayette Geology, we have five tenured faculty members, two of whom are women (Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Carley). Nationally, women hold 20% of tenure track faculty positions (AGU 2017). With 40% of our faculty being women, we are well ahead of the national trend. If we expand our perspective to the full faculty and staff of the Department, we're doing an even better job! Instrument Support Specialist Jennie Pinho (Professional Geologist) and Rohana Meyerson, Administrative Assistant (working toward her degree in Geology) make our program 50% women.

Did you know that since 1970, 47% of the graduates of the Geology program have been women? Join us in celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth and 50 years of coeducation at Lafayette College! https://geology.lafayette.edu/ https://coeducation.lafayette.edu/

Florence Bascom helped lead the way for women in the geosciences. Dr. Florence Bascom was the second woman to earn a Ph.D. in Geology in the United States (1893), and the very first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey (1896). Dr. Bascom has strong ties to the local area--she taught the next generation of female geologists at Bryn Mawr College (1895), and her mapping of the Pennsylvania piedmont is still the base of most of our geologic maps today. Learn more about Florence with these links. https://www.geosociety.org//a/7/7/pdf/i1052-5173-7-7-8.pdf and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQVArui9iak

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Department of Geology is excited to honor women in the geosciences. We hope to highlight some of the impressive accomplishments of women in the geosciences locally at Lafayette, and globally. Follow our posts during March and please contact us directly if you have an idea of a story we can share or a woman in the geosciences we can feature.

Enjoy studying geology? Excited about the most recent lander on Mars? Want to mix the two interests. Intern for NASA. https://intern.nasa.gov/

A great article about 2019 graduate Emilie Henry. https://www.mtcorps.org//back-for-more-with-big-sky-waters

Dustin Morris (Class of 2017) presented a great talk today about his PhD research at CalTech. The video can be seen here. https://events.caltech.edu/seri/science-journeys/2021-01-15

For those of you who love maps and cartography. The most accurate map of the Earth. https://www.scientificamerican.com//the-most-accurate-fla/

shoveling slightly moist (coherent) snow results in a demonstration of foreland thrusting

Want to see how the geologic cross section wall was built. Check out the time lapse video on our web page. https://geology.lafayette.edu///17/geologic-cross-section/

The Geology Department is excited to announce that Professor Carley was promoted to Associate Professor of Geology. Let's congratulate her on this achievement, and look forward to the great things that will come in 2021. Happy New Year to all. https://geology.lafayette.edu/people/tamara-carley/

Ever wonder what the underlying geology is between Doylestown, PA and Scranton, PA? Do you like to drive past rock outcrops and look at the geologic structure? Wouldn't it be great to see a geologic cross section of Eastern Pennsylvania? The Department of Geology is proud to present our geologic cross section of Eastern, PA.

A piece of the Catskill formation followed me home.... Can we keep it?

It's a foggy day in eastern PA, so of course professor Wilson is at a quarry getting some really cool rocks. Lockatong formation is loaded up, ready to come home to Van Wickle.

Spring semester starts in just over 2 weeks. And wow, do we have a surprise for you. 6000 pounds, and 1.2 billion years of geologic history.

Happy Holidays from Van Wickle and the Art Montgomery Mineral Museum. This semester the halls have felt particularly empty and I thought a fun way to bring some holiday cheer and remind everyone of our amazing mineral collection that creates the atmosphere in Van Wickle we all know and love would be to have a mineral identification contest. I have set up a holiday exhibit of red, green, and gold minerals from our collection in the spirit of the season. Test your mineral ident...ification knowledge and try to identify all 16 minerals pictured. The person who correctly identifies the most minerals will receive a prize (and bragging rights of course). Please submit your entry by December 24th to the following link: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSfkawMlEdXNu7tnq/viewform A high Resolution image can be found on the Geology Website: https://geology.lafayette.edu/ Best wishes, Brian Lejeune Mineral curator

Professors Sunderlin, Carley, Pinho and Wilson have been out collecting rocks this semester and wow are they great. You will get a chance to see these rocks in more detail soon. But for now, just a few rocks to wet your appetite.