This is a geologic tour of the Blue Ridge Escarpment in North Carolina including stops at Grandfather Mountain, Linville Falls, Chimney Rock, and Stone Mountain. This video was made by Max Garvue for the Virginia Tech 2023 geosciences Senior Seminar class taught by Jim Spotila.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction to the Blue Ridge Escarpment
2:09 Grandfather Mountain Window
3:28 Stop 1: Blowing Rock Gneiss
5:52 Stop 2: Grandfather Mountain
6:57 Stop 3: Grandfather Mountain
8:07 Hang Glide to Virginia Tech
9:34 Stop 4: Linville Falls
11:53 Stop 5: Chimney Rock
14:04 Stop 6: Stone Mountain
16:09 Geomorphology and evolution of the Blue Ridge Escarpment
18:39 Outro and Senior Seminar class pictures
Songs in order of appearance from the KZread Audio Library:
On The Rocks - TrackTribe
Chromatic Rag - Mini Vandals
Weirder Stuff - Geographer
Shine Your Little Light - Mini Vandals
Sunday Drive - Silent Partner
Gunpowder Tea - Mini Vandals
Figure/photo attributions:
Rodinia figure: Terje Torsvik
Palegeography and block model images: irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Downlo...
Continent collision cartoon: www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/...
Divergent plate boundary cartoon: www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/...
Blowing Rock gneiss photo: geologypics.com/geological-it...
Alluvial fan photo: wikipedia
Bear photo: Caitlin Couch
Stuart Smith Hang gliding clip: • 1985-Stuart-Smith-Gran...
Iapetus image: mythologyexplained.com/
Skolithos image: wikipedia
Stone mountain granodiorite image: wikipedia
Escarpment from rift figure: www.geomaps.com.au/scripts/aus...
ECD river profiles figure: Spotila and Prince, 2022 (doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.20...)
Escarpment retreat figure: Prince et al., 2010 (doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.20...)
All other photos and videos were taken by the TA's for this video or do not need attribution and are from websites like pexels or pixabay