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…
CHASING THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY
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…