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…
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…
TYE RIVER TUESDAY
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…