Geologic Tour of the Blue Ridge Escarpment
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Published 2023-05-10
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 Youtube 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/DownloadFile/649814
Continent collision cartoon: www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/plate-tectonics-colli…
Divergent plate boundary cartoon: www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/plate-tectonics-diver…
Blowing Rock gneiss photo: geologypics.com/geological-item/metamorphism/
Alluvial fan photo: wikipedia
Bear photo: Caitlin Couch
Stuart Smith Hang gliding clip: • 1985-Stuart-Smith-Grandfather-Mountai...
Iapetus image: mythologyexplained.com/
Skolithos image: wikipedia
Stone mountain granodiorite image: wikipedia
Escarpment from rift figure: www.geomaps.com.au/scripts/australianalps.php
ECD river profiles figure: Spotila and Prince, 2022 (doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108449)
Escarpment retreat figure: Prince et al., 2010 (doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.07.023)
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
All Comments (21)
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That ridge-top eyesore is not a hotel. It's a condo building called Sugar Top on nearby Sugar Mountain. A visual blight for sure. It inspired a state law limiting the height of buildings on NC mountain ridges.
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Great video. Well done!
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6:56 “and a great example of a snail on a stick” 😂
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Great job! Well explained
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That same hang glider was later killed hanging gliding from Grandfather Mountain. Shortly after that the hang gliding competitions at Grandfather were permanently cancelled. Thanks for a very informative video. I live in this area and have wanted a deeper understanding of the formations around me.
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Great info! I was just hiking Grandfather Mountain a few weekends ago and got annoyed by the very same hotel at 7:53
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Thanks...good information well presented.
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My dog & i have that very uniform! Reunite Pangea!❤
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Interesting note: Blacksburg sits just below the eastern continental divide. Our apartment on Jefferson St between Washington and Clay afforded me a view across the ridge top.
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Very well done. Thanks to all.
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In the Electric Universe "That Dog Won't Hunt"😂😂 Nice scenery though thanks 👍
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Lotta hangliders round here (Chattanooga area) they tell the GF Mtn story too. I was impressed when Chris Palmgren made a 6m SSB convo back to here from there.
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Good fun, if you've got 'rocks in your head'... which I do.
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Hey Amanda. Nice to see a fresh face doing science. Good luck.
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Thank you so much for the info!
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Rock on!❤
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Sweet, hiked many of these. Wish y'all had seen Looking Glass Rock in Pisgah Forest, NC. Thk it's a Pluton. Grt vid. Thx ✌🏻
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Like your humor.
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that hotel on top of the mountain is responsible for a series of laws preventing another eyesore like it from ever being built; iirc there is a clause that states if it ever comes down it can't be rebuilt. source: avery county expat
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16:50 are there any escarpments on the western sides of continents. Every example shown was on the south eastern side of the continent.
