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Mountain Beltway by Callan Bentley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License. That means you can use the stuff you find here, repost it with attribution to the author, and "remix" it for your own purposes, but not with the aim of making money off of it.

Educators especially: I encourage you to use anything you find here that is useful to your mission educating people about Earth science. E-mail me if it would help to have a larger or higher-resolution version of any of the images.

Butter Buster animation

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Callan Bentley

A million years ago, I posted about my inaugural attempt to use the Butter Buster to illustrate shear zone deformation to my structural geology students.

Today, using the UnFREEz program to make an animated GIF (Thanks, Lockwood!), I give you the Butter Buster animation:

Filed under: analogies, structure, teaching, tech | 3 Comments »

Hand lens + iPhone → Macrocamera

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Callan Bentley

Ever since I saw this at Microecos and Myrmecos, the staff here at “Mountainecos” have been wanting to try it out. Behold my first three iPhone photos supplemented by a hand lens (Belomo triplet, at a distance of about 1.5 cm from the subjects):

That’s a trilobite and a penny, by the way. Try it out; post your results!

Filed under: fossils, gear, geology, tech | 10 Comments »

Live geoblogging: assessment

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Callan Bentley

What do you think, folks? Do you like seeing field photos as I take them? Should I continue the Transect Trip instant photoblog series tomorrow as we traverse the Valley & Ridge?

Filed under: blogs, blue ridge, geology, tech, valley and ridge | 14 Comments »

Graded bed sample

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Callan Bentley

Today during Physical Geology lab, I used our grinding wheel to plane down a turbidite sample than I collected this past December down in Chilean Patagonia. Thanks to the technological miracle of blogging via iPhone, I can send it to you in a mere 45 seconds. Enjoy the graded bed: let it transport you back to the Cretaceous, in a deep marine basin with periodic influxes of mud and sand. Ahhh, turbidite; take me away!