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University Regulations
Students enrolled in the University are required to conform to the following regulations and to comply with the requirements and regulations of the school in which they are registered. Students who withdraw or are suspended, or who, for any other reason, are not registered at the University for one semester or more, may reapply and, if readmitted, continue their program only under the regulations and requirements in force at the time of return.
If a student knowingly makes a false statement or conceals material information on an application for admission or any other University document, the student's registration may be canceled. If such falsification is discovered after the student has matriculated at the University, the student may be subject to dismissal from the University. Such a student will be ineligible (except by special action of the faculty) for subsequent registration in the University.
Information on registration procedures is stated on the Office of the Registrar's website and in the Schedule of Classes, which is available in advance of each semester.
Registration in courses is open only to those persons formally admitted to the University by the appropriate admitting office and to continuing students in good standing. Students may not register concurrently in this University and another institution without the prior permission of the advising office of the school in which they are registered in this University. With the exception of students enrolled in a joint degree program, registration in more than one school of the University requires the written permission of the student advising offices concerned, prior to registration. Registration is not complete until all financial obligations have been met. Individuals without a valid registration may not attend class or earn any course credit.
Eligibility for Registration
Registration for the following categories of on-campus students is held on the days of registration indicated in the Schedule of Classes. A student who is suspended or whose record is encumbered for any reason is not eligible to register. Registration in a given course may be denied to non-degree students by the Office of Non-Degree Students when space is needed for degree candidates.
New Student—Upon receipt of a letter of admission and payment of any required deposit, new students are eligible for registration on the stated days of registration. Registration for new freshmen is typically conducted on stated days as part of the Colonial Inauguration orientation program.
Readmitted Student—A student previously registered in the University who was not registered during the preceding semester must apply for and be granted readmission by the appropriate admitting office before being eligible for registration.
Continuing Student—A student registered on campus in the immediately preceding semester or the summer session preceding the fall semester is eligible to register assuming good standing and enrollment in a continuing program.
Completion of Registration
Registration is not complete until financial obligations have been fulfilled. Students who do not complete their financial obligations in a timely manner may have their registration canceled and will not be permitted to attend class.
Registration for Consortium Courses
Degree students interested in taking courses at any of the other institutions in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, Inc. should consult the program announcements of the other institutions. In order to participate in the Consortium program, students must obtain the approval of an advisor and should ascertain from the department of the institution where the course is taught whether they are eligible for the course and whether there is space in the class. Consortium registration forms and detailed information concerning Consortium policy and procedures are available on the Office of the Registrar's website. Specific inquiries should be addressed to the Office of the Registrar.
Adding and Dropping Courses
During the registration period and before the end of the second week of classes, students may add or drop courses using the GWeb Information System.
During the third and fourth weeks of classes (after the second week and prior to the end of the fourth week), students who wish to add or drop a course must complete a Registration Transaction Form-EZ (RTF-EZ) and submit it to the Office of the Registrar in Colonial Commons; adding a course after the second week of classes also requires the signature of the instructor or other authorized member of the department. A course dropped during the first four weeks of classes will not appear on the student's transcript.
After the fourth week of classes, students who wish to add or withdraw from a course must complete a Registration Transaction Form (RTF) and submit it to their advising office. A course from which a student withdraws after the fourth week but before the end of the eighth week will be assigned a notation of W (Authorized Withdrawal). The deadline for withdrawing from a course is the end of the eighth week of classes in the fall and spring semesters.
After the end of the eighth week of classes, students who wish to withdraw from any or all of their courses must submit a petition, along with substantial supporting documentation, to their advising office for consideration. Submission of a petition does not guarantee approval. Appropriate withdrawal forms are available online. Failure to withdraw by the stated deadlines can result in an extended financial obligation and the recording of a grade of F (Failure) or a notation of Z (Unauthorized Withdrawal).
Students should consult the Office of the Registrar's website for academic deadlines for the fall and spring semesters. Academic deadlines for courses that are not offered during the traditional fall and spring semesters can be found at the respective school's advising office.
All charges for courses that the student drops are subject to the refund policy listed under Fees and Financial Regulations in the Bulletin.
Changes in Program of Study
Changes Within a School—A student may not substitute one course for another within an established program of study or change status from credit to audit or from audit to credit without the approval of the advising office of the school in which he or she is registered. Change from one major field to another within the same school may be made with the approval of the advising office.
Undergraduate Transfer Within the University— Students are admitted to a home school at the time of their admission to the University. Those who wish to change their home school must submit an internal transfer request to the University Registrar. A university-wide graduation requirement is that students must be registered in the college/school in which their primary major is housed. Some schools may require that certain prerequisite courses have been taken and that minimum grades have been earned before the transfer is processed. Transfer into a college/school does not guarantee placement in a limited-enrollment major and students will be transferred into an undeclared major. Requests to transfer schools will not be accepted prior to the second semester of the student's enrollment at GW. Students should meet prior to submitting an internal transfer request with an academic advisor in both their current college/school and the college/school into which they are requesting to transfer. Additional information, including deadlines, limited-enrollment majors, and prerequisites for internal transfers, is available on the Office of the Registrar's website.
Graduate Transfer Within the University—Application for transfer to another school must be made to the appropriate admitting office on the form provided by the office concerned.
Grades are made available to students through the Office of the Registrar after the close of each semester.
The following grading system is used for undergraduate students: A, Excellent; B, Good; C, Satisfactory; D, Low Pass; F, Fail; other grades that may be assigned are A−, B+, B−, C+, C−, D+, and D−. Symbols that may appear include AU, Audit; I, Incomplete; IPG, In Progress; W, Authorized Withdrawal; Z, Unauthorized Withdrawal; P, Pass; NP, No Pass; R, Need to Repeat Course.
Repeating Courses for Credit—For courses that do not specifically state that repetition for credit is permitted, a student may, with permission of the instructor teaching the repeated course, repeat for credit a course in which a grade of B- (2.75) or lower for undergraduate students or C− or lower for graduate students was received. The student must complete an RTF form to register. Credit for the repeated course will not count toward degree requirements; the grade earned in the repeated course will, however, be included in the student's cumulative grade-point average.
The following grading system is used for graduate students: A, Excellent; B, Good; C, Satisfactory; F, Fail; other grades that may be assigned are A−, B+, B−, C+, C−. Symbols that may appear include AU, Audit; I, Incomplete; IPG, In Progress; W, Authorized Withdrawal; Z, Unauthorized Withdrawal; CR, Credit; NC, No Credit.
Unauthorized Withdrawal —The symbol of Z is assigned when students are registered for a course that they have not attended or have attended only briefly, and in which they have done no graded work. At the end of the academic year, students' records are reviewed; if there is more than one Z per semester, a student's record will be encumbered until released by the student's advising office. The symbol of Z is not a grade but an administrative notation.
Except for courses that specifically state that repetition for credit is permitted, a candidate for a degree at this University may not repeat a course in which a grade of C− for graduate students or better was received, unless required to do so by the department concerned. A written statement, indicating that the student is required to repeat the course, must be submitted to the student's advising office by the appropriate department chair.
The symbol I (Incomplete) indicates that a satisfactory explanation has been given to the instructor for the student's inability to complete the required work of the course during the semester of enrollment. At the option of the instructor, the symbol I may be recorded if a student, for reasons beyond the student's control, is unable to complete the work of the course, and if the instructor is informed of, and approves, such reasons before the date when grades must be reported. This symbol may be used only if the student's prior performance and class attendance in the course have been satisfactory. Any failure to complete the work of a course that is not satisfactorily explained to the instructor before the date when grades must be turned in will be graded F, Failure. If acceptable reasons are later presented to the instructor, that instructor may initiate an appropriate grade change, which in all cases will include the symbol I. The work must be completed within the designated time period agreed upon by the instructor, student, and school, but no more than one calendar year from the end of the semester in which the course was taken, or no more than one semester in the case of students enrolled in the School of Business. All students who receive an Incomplete must maintain active student status during the subsequent semester(s) in which the work of the course is being completed. If not registered in other classes during this period, the student must register for Continuous Enrollment status.
When work for the course is completed, the instructor will complete a grade change form and turn it in to the Office of the Registrar. Beginning with the fall 2014 semester, the final grade will replace the symbol of I. If work for the course is not completed within the designated time, the grade will be converted automatically to a grade of F, Failure, 0 quality points, and the grade-point average and academic standing recalculated.
The Grade-Point Average
Scholarship is computed in terms of the grade-point average, obtained by dividing the number of quality points by the number of credits for which the student has registered, both based on his or her record in this university. The grade-point average is computed as follows: A, 4.0; A−, 3.7; B+, 3.3; B, 3.0; B−, 2.7; C+, 2.3; C, 2.0; C−, 1.7; D+, 1.3; D, 1.0; D−, .7; F, 0, for each credit hour for which the student has registered as a degree-seeking student. Grades of D+, D, and D−, are not used for graduate students. Although credit value for a course in which a grade of F is earned appears on the transcript for the purpose of calculating the grade-point average, no academic credit is awarded. In the case of a student who is allowed to repeat a course, the first grade received remains on the student's record and is included in the grade-point average. Courses marked AU, CR, I, IPG, P, NP, R, W, or Z are not considered in determining the average, except that courses marked I will be considered when a final grade is recorded. With the exception of Consortium courses, grades in courses taken at other institutions are not considered in computing the grade-point average.
Undergraduate Degree Requirements
To earn a bachelor's degree, students must complete 120 credits; meet the University general education requirement, school-specific requirements of their home school, and requirements of at least one major within their home school; fulfill the residence requirement; and have a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0. Additional school-specific regulations may apply.
University General Education Requirement
Under the general education requirement, undergraduate students are required to take 19 credits in approved courses in the areas of writing, the humanities, natural or physical science, mathematics or statistics, and social science, plus two writing-in-the-discipline courses. The general education curriculum engages students in active intellectual inquiry across the liberal arts. Students achieve a set of learning outcomes that meaningfully enhance their analytical skills, develop communication competencies, and familiarize them with modes of inquiry.
The distribution for the general education requirement is as follows: Writing—one university writing course (UW 1020 or HONR 1015) and two writing-in-the-disciplines (WID) courses; Humanities—one course in the humanities; Mathematics or Statistics—one course in either mathematics or statistics; Natural or Physical Science—one natural or physical science course with laboratory; Social Science—two courses in the social sciences. The list of approved courses for each area can be found online and students should check the list before registering for classes. Students should address questions about this requirement to their advising office.
Residence requirement
To earn a bachelor's degree, students must earn at least 60 credits at or through GW, which may include a University-authorized study abroad and study away program. At least 30 of the 60 credits earned at or through GW must be in upper-level courses (numbered 2000 or above); at least 12 credits in upper-level courses must be in the major field, and at least 6 credits in upper-level courses must be in the minor field, if sought.
Graduate Degree Requirements
Graduate students should consult their program's advising office concerning degree requirements.
Academic Work Load
A full-time undergraduate program is defined as 12 to 17 credits per semester. Undergraduates taking more than 17 credits per semester must have approval from their advising office and will be charged at the rate of 1 credit for each credit exceeding that limit. Exceptions to the extra charge will be made for students taking 18 credits if their program includes UW 1020 and for students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science whose program requires them to take 18 or 19 credits per semester.
A full-time undergraduate student on academic probation may register for up to 13 credits.
Graduate students should consult with their advising office to determine an academic workload that meets the requirements for their degree program.
Academic Standing
An undergraduate student who is not on academic probation or suspension for poor scholarship is considered to be in good academic standing.
Academic probation: Students are placed on probation if their semester or cumulative grade-point average is below 2.0 in any given semester.
Suspension for poor scholarship: Students will be subject to suspension if their semester grade-point average is below 1.0 in any given semester; they have two consecutive semesters of grade-point averages below 2.0; or they have three semesters of probationary status on their academic transcript.
Readmission after suspension for poor scholarship: A student suspended for poor scholarship may apply for readmission after at least one semester following the term of suspension and after having earned a minimum of 12 credits at an accredited institution of higher education. No credit will be assigned for academic work completed while the student is suspended. After being readmitted and completing a minimum of 12 credits at GW and achieving a cumulative and major field GPA of at least 2.0, the student may petition their advising office to transfer in no more than 9 credits or three courses from other colleges or universities (see Earning Transfer Credit after Matriculation policy). A student suspended twice for poor scholarship will not be readmitted.
Dean's List
Undergraduate students who, in any one semester, earn 12 credits or more and attain a minimum semester grade point average of 3.75 in letter-graded course work, pass all non-graded credit courses, and do not have any Unauthorized Withdrawals (Z) or Incompletes (I), are placed on the Dean's List for that semester.
Latin Honors
Bachelor's degrees with honors are awarded to students whose academic records give evidence of particular merit. The student's grade-point average determines the level of honors as follows: cum laude, 3.4–3.59; magna cum laude, 3.6–3.79; summa cum laude, 3.8–4.0. The grade-point average includes all course work completed at GW. To be eligible for an honors designation, a student must complete at least 60 credits of course work with letter grades (grades included in calculating the grade-point average) at GW.
The grade-point average is calculated by the Office of the Registrar, and the honors designation is entered on the transcript and diploma of those students who earn an honors designation. If Latin honors are entered in the commencement program, honors status will be determined on the basis of work completed by the end of the seventh term and entered only for those students who have completed seven-eighths of the credits required for the degree. Latin honors indicated on the diploma are calculated on the basis of all course work completed. The diploma and transcript are the official indication that a degree was conferred and Latin honors awarded.
Special Honors
Special Honors may be awarded by the faculty to any undergraduate member of the graduating class for outstanding achievement in the student's major field on recommendation of the major department. The student must fulfill all of the following requirements: (1) Candidacy for Special Honors must be approved by the faculty member representing the major department or field not later than the beginning of the senior year. (2) Such other conditions as may be set at the time the candidacy is approved must be met. (3) At least one-half of the courses required for the degree must have been completed at GW. (4) The specific minimum requirement of the school in which the student is registered must be fulfilled as follows: (a) Columbian College of Arts and Sciences—a grade-point average of 3.0 on all course work taken at GW; (b) the Elliott School of International Affairs—a grade-point average of 3.7 on all course work taken at GW; (c) the Milken Institute School of Public Health —a grade-point average of 3.25 on all course work taken at GW. Special Honors awards appear on the transcript.
Double Majors
Undergraduates can declare no more than two majors; they can pursue minors or secondary fields in addition to the two majors if they wish but are generally advised against pursuing too many specializations.
Students who graduate with the requisite credits for one degree, having fulfilled the major requirements in more than one department, program, and/or school, will receive one degree. They must select a primary degree and major, as only the primary degree will show on the diploma, along with the two majors.
Students who complete the major requirements in their home school and the major requirements in a second school will receive the degree in the major of their home school and a notation on the transcript and diploma that testifies to completion of requirements for a secondary major. It is understood that requirements of the secondary major do not include the general education requirements of the second school.
Students who complete the major requirements for a degree different from the one they will receive in their home school will receive the degree of the relevant major in their home school. For example, a SEAS student completing the degree requirements for a B.S. in computer science and the major requirements for a B.A. in fine arts will receive a B.S. in computer science with a secondary major in fine arts.
Students who complete two majors in the same school also receive one degree with two majors; if one major leads to a B.A. and one to a B.S., the student must declare a primary major and will receive the degree associated with that major.
Students may not declare a minor in the same subject in which they have declared a major. Students should address specific questions about this policy to the school's advising office.
Double Degrees
To earn two bachelor's degrees at the same time, students must be admitted to the college or school that offers the second degree; satisfy the general and major requirements for both degrees; complete at least 30 additional credits beyond the credits required to earn one degree or a total of 150 credits; and earn 90 credits in residence at GW. Students interested in pursuing this option must have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.3. Applications for consideration should be sent to the student's advising office.
Study Abroad
Undergraduates who wish to study abroad during the academic year should contact the Office for Study Abroad concerning eligibility, appropriate procedures, and requirements for participation. Participants are billed GW charges for study abroad, rather than fees indicated by the visited school or program. To be eligible for the transfer of academic credit from study abroad, GW students must select a program from the University's authorized list of study abroad programs. Students must have a 2.75 cumulative grade-point average at the time of application and must have completed 45 credits prior to departure. Transfer students must complete one full semester at GW prior to application. Students who have a significant disciplinary history or who are on academic or disciplinary probation at the time of application are not eligible to study abroad. All programs of study abroad must be approved on the required forms prior to departure. Non-GW course credits earned in authorized programs with a C or above are transferable toward the appropriate degree at GW, provided there is no duplication of work done previously and faculty have designated each course with a GW course equivalent. Participants agree to abide by all procedures and regulations for study abroad as indicated in the Study Abroad Handbook and Participation Agreement distributed through the Office for Study Abroad. In addition to academic year programs, study abroad is available at varying locations during the summer.
Graduate students who wish to study abroad should consult their program's advising office.
Continuous Enrollment Status
Once entered in a degree program, a student is expected to be continuously enrolled and actively engaged in fulfilling the requirements for the degree each semester of the academic year until such time as the degree is conferred. A student is considered to be continuously enrolled when registered for courses through GW or when registered for Continuous Enrollment and engaged in and appropriately registered for activities such as the following, with the prior approval of the school in which the student is enrolled: cooperative work semester; study abroad program; attendance at another institution with prior approval to have work transferred back to the GW program; completion of outstanding work in courses in which a grade of Incomplete or In Progress was received; or non-course instructional activities unique to the particular school. This status is generally limited to one year. Should the student break continuous enrollment at the University and not request and be granted a leave of absence (see below), he or she must apply for readmission and, if granted, be subject to the requirements and regulations then in force.
Leave of Absence
A degree student who finds it necessary to interrupt active pursuit of the degree may petition his or her advising office for a leave of absence for a specific period of time, generally limited to one calendar year. A degree student who discontinues active enrollment in degree studies without being granted a leave of absence, or a student granted a leave who does not return to active study at the close of the period of approved absence, must apply for readmission and be subject to the regulations and requirements then in force. The right to use of University facilities is suspended while the leave is in effect.
Policy Regarding Students Called to Active Military Duty
Any student who is a member of a military reserve unit or the National Guard and is activated or called to active duty early in a semester or summer session automatically will be entitled to a full refund of all tuition and fees that he or she has paid toward the expenses of that academic term. If the notification of the call to active duty comes after the mid-term examinations or after other substantial graded work has been completed, the student will have the option of either taking a full refund of tuition and fees or taking an Incomplete in his or her courses with the privilege of returning to complete all required course work at some future date without payment of any further tuition and fee charges. It is the responsibility of the student to present evidence of his or her activation to the Office of Student Accounts and to request the appropriate refund.
Should a degree student called up for active duty find it necessary to interrupt active pursuit of the degree, the student may petition their advising office for a leave of absence for a specified period of time, generally limited to one calendar year. Student advisors are encouraged to grant any request to extend the leave of absence for longer than the customary period should military service require an absence of more than one year. All students on active duty will be automatically exempted from the request for a voluntary library contribution without requiring any communication from them or their initials on the bill.
Eligibility for Graduation
Degrees are conferred in January, May, and August. To be eligible for graduation a student must have met the admission requirements of the school in which registered; completed satisfactorily the scholarship, curriculum, residence, and other requirements for the degree as stated in this bulletin; filed an application for graduation by the published deadline date; and be free from all indebtedness to the University. Enrollment is required for the semester or summer at the close of which the degree is to be conferred, and all degree requirements must be completed by the last day of final examinations for that semester or summer session. Undergraduates who pursue a double major across two schools must complete the primary major in their home school in order to graduate. A second major may supplement the primary major but may not substitute for it.
Graduate Thesis or Dissertation
Graduate students whose program includes a thesis or dissertation must meet the following Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) deadlines for graduation in the respective semesters: for theses, May 15 for spring, January 15 for fall, and August 15 for summer; for dissertations, April 1 for spring, January 15 for fall, and August 15 for summer.
Doctoral candidates who have not successfully defended their dissertation and met the ETD deadline may not participate in either the May commencement or hooding ceremony.
Students who apply after the published deadlines are not guaranteed commencement materials. Summer graduates who elect to attend the preceding May ceremony must apply for graduation no later than February 1.
Graduate Thesis or Dissertation—A thesis or dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for a degree must be presented in its final form by the deadline set by the school concerned. Accepted theses and dissertations, with accompanying files, become the property of the University. Accepted theses and dissertations are submitted electronically; the student pays a processing fee directly to Proquest/UMI. See the appropriate school in this Bulletin for regulations governing theses and dissertations.
Participation in the Commencement Ceremony
Participation in the annual commencement ceremony held in May is open to students who have applied to graduate in the current spring semester or who graduated the preceding fall semester or summer session. With the exception of doctoral candidates, all students, graduate or undergraduate, who need no more than 9 credit to complete their degree requirements, may participate in May commencement ceremonies if there is a reasonable expectation that they will be able to obtain the needed credits during the following summer. The maximum of 9 credit is firm and not subject to petition.
Complete Withdrawal From the University
A degree-seeking student who wishes to withdraw from all courses during a given semester must complete a Complete Withdrawal Form and submit it to the Office of the Registrar. Forms are available on line, at advising offices, and in the Office of the Registrar. The deadline for complete withdrawal from all courses without academic penalty is the end of the ninth week of classes. Complete withdrawal after the ninth week requires a petition to the student's advising office.
All charges for courses from which the student withdraws are subject to the refund policy found at the Registrar's Office website. Failure to complete a Complete Withdrawal Form can result in an extended financial obligation and the recording of grades of F (Failure) or notations of Z (Unauthorized Withdrawal).
The University is authorized to award the degree of Associate in General Studies under designated circumstances. This degree may be awarded to students in good standing who must leave GW after completing 60 credits in residence in a degree-granting GW school; students should consult their school's advising office about additional requirements for awarding of the Associate in General Studies.
Non-Degree Students
The Office of Non-Degree Students makes credit-bearing courses available to those who are not degree candidates at GW and to students who have been admitted to the University for a future semester. Non-degree students are allowed a maximum per semester of 12 credits at the graduate level and 18 at the undergraduate level, except in special circumstances as approved by the director. Medical and law courses are not available to non-degree students. Special program credit limits may vary.
Non-degree applicants must have appropriate academic preparation prior to enrollment. Prerequisites are specified in this Bulletin in the course description. Contact the department concerned for further information regarding appropriate academic background for a particular course. An applicant who has previously attended this or another college or university must be in good standing at that institution. An applicant who has been suspended from any educational institution will not be eligible to enroll as a non-degree student for one calendar year after the effective date of the suspension. An applicant who has been denied admission within this university will not be eligible to enroll as a non-degree student for the same semester for which the application was denied. Applications and information on registration are available online. Prospective and registered students should acquaint themselves with the regulations concerning attendance and withdrawal stated in this section or at www.gwu.edu/non-degree. If a non-degree student takes a course for which the symbol I (Incomplete) is assigned, the instructor normally sets a period (maximum of one year) within which the uncompleted work must be made up. An Incomplete that is not changed within one calendar year becomes a grade of IF on the student's record.
University Policies and Definitions
Right to Change Rules and Programs—The University reserves the right to modify or change requirements, rules, and fees. Such regulations shall go into force whenever the proper authorities may determine. The right is reserved by the University to make changes in programs without notice whenever circumstances warrant such changes.
University Policy on Equal Opportunity—The George Washington University does not unlawfully discriminate against any person on any basis prohibited by federal law, the District of Columbia Human Rights Act, or other applicable law, including without limitation, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. This policy covers all programs, services, policies, and procedures of the University, including admission to education programs and employment.
Inquiries concerning this policy and federal and local laws and regulations concerning discrimination in education and employment programs and activities may be directed to the University's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action, Suite 320, 2033 K Street NW, Washington DC 20052, (202) 994-9656. Inquiries may also be directed to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or the applicable state or local agency (for example, the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights).
Questions regarding protections against discrimination on the basis of sex may be directed to the University's Title IX Coordinator, the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Rice Hall 813, 2121 Eye Street NW, Washington DC 20052, (202)994-7440.
Questions regarding the protections against discrimination on the basis of disability may be directed to the University's Disability Services Coordinators. Students may contact the Associate Dean of Students, Administrative Services, Office of the Dean of Students, Rice Hall 401, 2121 Eye Street NW, Washington DC 20052, (202)994-6710, and other members of the University community may contact the Executive Director of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action, Suite 320, 2033 K Street NW, Washington DC 20052, (202)994-9633.
To request disability accommodations, students should contact the Office of Disability Support Services at (202)994-8250 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Employees and other members of the University community should contact the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at (202)994-9656 or email@example.com.
Academic Integrity—The University community, in order to fulfill its purposes, must establish and maintain guidelines of academic behavior. All members of the community are expected to exhibit honesty and competence in their academic work. Incoming students have a special responsibility to acquaint themselves with, and make use of, all proper procedures for doing research, writing papers, and taking examinations. Members of the community will be presumed to be familiar with the proper academic procedures and held responsible for applying them. Deliberate failure to act in accordance with such procedures will be considered academic dishonesty. Acts of academic dishonesty are a legal, moral, and intellectual offense against the community and will be prosecuted through the proper University channels. The University Code of Academic Integrity can be found at the Office of Academic Integrity.
Patent and Copyright Policies—Students who produce creative works or make scientific discoveries while employed or supported by the University or through substantial use of University resources are subject to the University's patent and copyright policies. See The Office of the Vice President for Research .
Human Research Requirements—Students who are planning to conduct research involving the use of human subjects (for a thesis, dissertation, journal article, poster session, etc.) must obtain Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval before collecting any data. For more information see The Office of the Vice President for Research.
English for Academic Purposes—Undergraduate and graduate international students whose TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE scores fall below established cut-off points are required to take one or more courses in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program. Both undergraduate and graduate students receive credit for EAP courses; however, in most cases graduate EAP credits cannot be applied to a degree. Graduate students placed in EAP courses should anticipate additional tuition expenses as well as possible extension of time needed to complete their degree programs. For detailed information concerning this requirement consult the English for Academic Purposes Program website.
Use of Correct English—A report regarding any student whose written or spoken English in any course is unsatisfactory may be sent by the instructor to the advising office of the school, who may assign supplementary work, without academic credit, varying with the needs of the student. If the work prescribed is equivalent to a course, the regular tuition fee is charged. The granting of a degree may be delayed for failure to make up any such deficiency in English to the satisfaction of the advising office.
Name of Record—A student's name of record includes the first name, middle initial or full middle name, and the family name. Nicknames may not be used. The University will change the name of a currently enrolled student on its official records but will require satisfactory evidence of a legal basis for the change. The diploma is awarded under the official name of record at the time of graduation.
Student Status—For the purpose of defining student status, undergraduates taking 12 or more credits per semester are considered to be full time, those taking 6 to 11 credits per semester are considered to be half time, and all others are considered to be part time. Generally, an undergraduate becomes a sophomore upon completion of 30 credits, a junior upon completion of 60 credits, and a senior upon completion of 90 credits.
During the fall and spring semesters graduate students taking 9 or more credits are considered to be full time, those taking 4.5 to 8.5 credits are considered to be half time, and all others are considered to be part time. In the summer full-time status requires 6 credits, half-time status, 3 credits. Unless otherwise indicated under the program, all programs of study are offered on both a full-time and part-time basis. International students in F-1 or J-1 immigration status may pursue only full-time programs of study, and such students must register for and complete a full course load each semester as defined by federal regulations.
Graduate students who have completed all course and credit requirements for the degree except dissertation or thesis research may be certified as full-time students provided they are registered for at least 3 credits of dissertation or thesis research, are actively engaged in dissertation or thesis research and writing, and are not employed more than 20 hours per week. Graduate students who have completed all credit requirements for the degree, including dissertation or thesis research, but have not completed all degree requirements, may be certified as full-time students provided they have not exceeded the established time limits for degree completion, are registered for Continuous Research, and are not employed more than 20 hours per week. Those who meet all conditions stated above but are employed more than 20 hours per week may be certified as half-time students.
Attendance—Students may attend only those classes for which they are officially registered. Regular attendance is expected. Students may be dropped from any course for undue absence. A student suspended for any cause may not attend classes during the period of suspension. Students are held responsible for all of the work of the courses in which they are registered, and all absences must be excused by the instructor before provision is made to make up the work missed.
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The albums of Jars of Clay regularly top the Contemporary Christian charts. But they say their music is not really about religion, but just inspired by it. They are performing this weekend at The Saturday Early Show Second Cup Café.
The band got started in 1995 when their debut album exploded onto the scene with sales of 2 million and a Grammy nomination. The album crossed over to nearly every format – alternative rock, pop, and gospel.
With their new CD, "The Eleventh Hour," they continue to deliver their message.
Singer Dan Haseltine, guitarist Matt Odmark, keyboardist Charlie Lowell, and guitarist Stephen Mason perform with an innovative blend of harmonious folk, techno and alt-rock stylings.
Jars of Clay emerged out of the St. Louis college music scene. All four of them began writing together in the basement of a college dormitory.
In the wake of beating out 200 other bands in a national competition, Jars of Clay's humble surroundings changed quickly. The band's name, symbolizing the frailty of mankind, became a vital reminder to exercise humility in the light of critical acclaim. Jars of Clay signed a major label recording contract in 1994. Shortly after, they began producing their self-titled debut record with a little help from guitar legend, Adrian Belew (David Bowie, Talking Heads, King Crimson, NIN).
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If you ask most volleyball coaches when their season starts, they probably won't say the season opener.
Instead, they'll say the real season starts at the district tournament, and that time has now arrived.
"You never know who is going to show up," said George Jenkins coach Lisa Bickerton, whose Eagles are the No. 1 seed in the Class 7A, District 6 tournament.
Lakeland is the official host for the 7A-6 tournament, but this year's format has the higher-seeded teams hosting its games until Thursday night's championship match, which will be held at Lakeland.
No. 6 seed Kathleen will head to Haines City to play the third-seeded Hornets tonight at 7 with the winner playing No. 2 seed Lakeland on Tuesday. Over at Ridge Community, the fourth-seeded Bolts play host to No. 5 Bartow to decide which team will face Jenkins on Tuesday.
It would be easy to predict another Lakeland-Jenkins district championship game, but nothing can be taken for granted at this time of the year.
"You never know," Bickerton said. "Haines city has been coming on strong, and Ridge took a game from us."
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Lakeland Christian is the host and No. 1 seed in the Class 3A, District 8 tournament, which starts tonight with No. 5 Fort meade taking on No. 4 New Dimensions. The winner will face Lakeland Christian Tuesday for a championship game berth.
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Brilliant Ealing comedy, this pitch-perfect crime caper stars Alec Guinness in one of his finest performances, a timid clerk who decides to claim himself a fortune with a motely crew including Ealing mainstay Stanley Holloway. The film is probably the template for all bungling crime films, but mercifully lacks the slapstick of its imitators. Pacy and highly comical, this is definately worth your while. Watch out as well for Audrey Hpburn's tiny role as Chiquita in the first scene as well!
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9. Congratulations on the birth of your tiny man!
12. But what if you want everyone to eat their own individual baby?
18. Humanely drowned in icing.
19. There is also a huge trend of just butts.
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Relax. It will be over soon.
This one has a lobster on it…
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Bulldogs top UC football
County rivalries have created many memories in sports for Union County, and on Monday night, a new chapter opened with New Albany and Union County football facing one another.
The junior high game marked the first meeting between the teams, with the Bulldogs taking the win, 36-0 at Kitchens' Field.
"We had some good things happen tonight, only turned the ball over once, but overall we're not playing well and we're not playing like we practice," UC head coach Scott Duley said. "We're playing with no enthusiasm, and you can't play football that way."
UC struggled to defend the run against the Bulldogs, who were up 22-0 at the half.
"Right now, they're not excited. They're excited in practice and when we do Oklahoma drills and they're excited all the time until they play in a game, then they're flat," Duley said.
This was the first of two meetings between county rivals. Union County and New Albany junior varsity will play one another on October 18 at Kitchens' Field.
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Friday fold: The walls of Scalloway Castle
When in Shetland, one of my first stops was the museum in Scalloway, and one of the ancillary benefits of visiting there is the castle next door:
Scalloway Castle includes building stones derived from the local limestone – a Neoproterozoic unit that has recently been chemostratigraphically correlated with Snowball Earth cap carbonates elsewhere in the world. But that need not concern us today. Today we are here for the folds!
Check out these fine examples:
There are also some adjoining examples of boudinage:
(Zooming in on a boudin neck from the previous example…)
Hope you're having a happy Friday!
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Kilometer to millimeter: 4 GigaPans to zoom in on Lewisian gneiss
I'm in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, enjoying spectacular geology and less-than-spectacular weather.
I've been fairly productive on the GigaPan front, regardless, nipping outdoors when the weather permits to shoot outcrops and landscapes.
One set I'm particularly pleased with is this suite of four images. They show the Archean-aged Lewisian gneiss, the oldest rock unit in the North-West Highlands, as exposed on a beachside outcrop east of Durness, Sutherland. The largest feature in the first GigaPan is about a kilometer across (entire field of view). Then the second GigaPan is a zoomed-in subset of the first, and the third is a subset of the second, and the fourth is the most zoomed-in of all, a detailed look at a region of the third. The smallest features to be discerned in the last one (mineral grains) are a fraction of millimeter across. Thus, the whole "nested" suite visualizes this place over six orders of magnitude.
In the first, you can see the beach, nearby glacial erratics, as well as some features of coastal geomorphology:
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Now we're down on the beach, checking out the wall-like sweep of outcrop. Can you find three examples of boudinage?
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Here's my favorite example of boudinage from the site, located about in the middle of the previous image. Here, you can see it's a "double" layer of amphibolite that's been stretched. How would you characterize the boudin ends?
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Finally, we can examine very small scale features associated with the "stern" of the boudin, and the boudin neck in its "wake". In particular, you can see the "fish mouth" shape to the boudin's end, and see that it's "mouth" is full of pegmatite – crystallized evidence of the fluid rich low-pressure zone the formed here when the amphibolite layer separated into chunks.
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Whether you're more into the geomorphology or the petrology (or the structural geology!), there's something in this quartet to hold your attention. I hope you enjoy exploring them.
8 July 2016
Friday folds: Kinkell Braes, Scotland
When I took you on a virtual field trip to Kinkell Braes earlier this week, I didn't mention that the sandstones are folded there, now did I?
Let me remedy that omission now:
That is a plunging anticline that you could actually take a plunge into:
And here's a syncline to match.
Happy Friday. Hope your week was a good one, and that your weekend is even better.
7 July 2016
Tombolo at St. Ninian's Isle, Shetland
I came to Shetland for the rocks – but I've been surprised and delighted by the huge range of interesting coastal geomorphology to be seen here too. I've never seen so many sea stacks, wave-cut cliffs, and bayhead bars in my life.
One that is so "classic," so "textbook" that I couldn't resist it, is the tombolo that connects St. Ninian's Isle to mainland Shetland.
In Google maps, it couldn't be more plain:
I shot two GigaPans there, one from each side of the structure:
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
I also made a Theta 360 spherical photo from the middle of the tombolo:
Tombolo @ St. Ninian's Isle, Shetland #theta360 – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
4 July 2016
Virtual field trip to Kinkell Braes, Scotland
Walking along the shore east from St. Andrews, Scotland, along the seaside sandstones of Kinkell Braes, you encounter several extraordinary examples of geology. It's a great place for the next stop on our Grand Tour of the geology of the British Isles.
Here's the scene:
The first stop is a giant eurypterid trackway, potentially the largest invertebrate trackway in the world (Whyte, 2005), on the underside of an overhanging sandstone slab that's only accessible at low tide. Even then, you can slip on the many slimy seaside rocks, something I can personally attest to having done twice during my visit. The trackway features multiple sets of sea scorpion footprints, three on each side of the critter's body, plus a long central groove made as its telson dragged through the sand:
I made two GigaPans of the trackway:
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
And here are two Theta 360° spherical photos of the outcrop:
Giant eurypterid trackway, Scotland – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
Giant eurypterid trackway, Scotland – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
Those should convey a sense of how difficult it was to image this thing – but once again, the 3D model comes to the rescue. Using a photo set I shot on the site, lying on my back on the slimy rocks, my student Marissa used Agisoft Photoscan to make this:
Photoscan model by Marissa Dudek
That's the next best thing to being there!
Now, that trackway alone is probably enough for one day, but if you were to continue your stroll around the next major headland, Kinkell Ness, you'd see something else that's quite remarkable:
Let's make this the second stop on our virtual field trip. Here's a Theta 360° spherical photo of the scene:
The Rock and spindle: Permian volcanic vent complex intruding Mississippian sandstone, Kinkell Ness, Scotland #theta360 – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
The prominent sea stack is a feature called the Rock and Spindle – it's a resistant bit of a volcanic vent complex that intruded through the sandstones in the late Carboniferous or early Permian. In the photo above, you can see the light-colored stratified sandstones (with some shale) in the foreground, and the relatively dark volcanic rocks (basalt and agglomerate) starting about halfway along the bay.
The Rock and Spindle is a glorious, albeit phallic, thing:
The most striking thing about it is the completely radial columnar jointing seen at the base:
That's just amazing – a beautiful set of columns, indicating a circular cooling front – perhaps originally a cylinder shaped intrusion or a dome-like hemispherical bulge.
Here's a GigaPan of the Rock and Spindle:
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
The beach east of Kinkell Ness is a great place to look at intrusive relationships. In 1867, Archibald Geikie brought Charles Lyell and Roderick Murchison here to show them these great plutonic relationships. There's plenty of agglomerate to be seen immediately adjacent to the Rock and Spindle, as these images show:
Hand sample of the agglomerate:
Some contains xenoliths of sandstone – the same sort of sandstone that preserved the eurypterid trackway:
Here's a Theta 360° spherical photo of this outcrop:
Sandstone xenolith in volcanic rock, Kinkell Ness, Scotland #theta360 – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
…And (why not?) a 3D model of it, too… scooting in underneath will allow you to see the bedding plane of the sandstone.
Photoscan model by Marissa Dudek
But a short distance away from all this volcanic mayhem are outcrops of the staid sandstone (and shale) with which we started the trip:
There's a low cliff showing the contact between Permian volcanic agglomerate (top right) and Mississippian sedimentary rocks (lower left):
I made a GigaPan of this instructive outcrop, of course:
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
One thing that's clear in that outcrop is that the sandstones and shales were deformed a bit by the intrusion. I found some sweet examples nearby of small faults offsetting sedimentary layering, which I provisionally interpret as resulting from the stresses of the magma pushing its way through, kind of like the situation we observed last week in Dunbar with a different package of sandstone.
I found similar small conjugate sets of wee faults in another nubbin of sandstone, but here they were offsetting a small volcanic dike – probably synchronous with the intrusion – the crack opening up along the faults like a set of interlocking teeth in a monstrous maw:
The same sandstone outcrop showed a beefier dike cutting though it (left to right through the middle of the image). It's a bit hard to see because it's been preferentially eroded away…
Here's a good use of the Theta 360° spherical photo medium – get your perspective into that crack and see how it's eroded out along the dike:
Permian volcanic dike intruding Mississippian sandstone, Kinkell Ness, Scotland #theta360 – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
All told, you could do worse than to lace up a sturdy pair of virtual boots and follow in the footsteps of Geike, Lyell, and Murchison to explore this exemplary place. Thanks for joining me on another virtual field trip!
1 July 2016
Friday fold: Clarely, an anticline
Eric Pyle sent in today's Friday fold –
Eric reports that you can find this fold seaside, near Poulatedaun, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Thanks for sharing, Eric!
30 June 2016
Virtual field trip to Siccar Point, Scotland
Time for another virtual field trip on the Geologist's Grand Tour of the United Kingdom: the most famous outcrop in the world. Today, we visit Siccar Point, Scotland.
You've probably already seen photos of this place – they usually look something like this:
To those who aren't familiar, here's what going on:
There are two sets of strata here – and the contact between them is an ancient erosional surface. It's an angular unconformity, the very first one identified — anywhere, ever.
When James Hutton brought his friend John Playfair here in 1788, he explained the significance of such a structure: It implied that (1) Silurian graywackes and shales were deposited horizontally, (2) they were subsequently folded and tilted to more or less vertical orientations, (3) a period of erosion commenced, chewing away at their upper ends, (4) erosion ceased and deposition resumed, but now the environment of deposition had totally changed – instead of deep marine strata, oxidized fluvial redbeds were laid down (the Old Red Sandstone) — again in an original horizontal orientation, then (5) these too were tilted to their present angle gently dipping off to the left of the frame, and (6) modern erosion went to work on the whole mess, carving it up into the three-dimensionally complex exposure we find today.
Hutton pointed out that this whole sequence would probably take a little while. Playfair recounted the sense of temporal vertigo Hutton had induced in him: "The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time."
Siccar Point, then, was the place where the immense depth of geologic time was first realized. It was the first time it was felt!
I got into the spirit of the place by putting myself in the place of (A) the turbidites, (B) the ancient erosional surface, and (C) the red beds:
But there's much more to Siccar Point than just this one oft-photographed scene.
Just walking in to the site is a treat – looking both ways along the coast, you can see the relevant units – with Old Red Sandstone dominating to the northwest, and Silurian turbidites to the southeast:
The first view of Siccar Point itself comes from a great height:
I paused there to capture the view on GigaPan (see the resulting image later in this blog post):
Then, we descended. As you can see, we had awesome weather – but this slope was so steep, next to a knee/chest level strand of rusty barbed wire, that I shudder to imagine descending it on a rainy day:
Because the modern waves have sculpted Siccar Point into a complex shape, there are a dozen ways to view the unconformity, dipping down below it in places (entering the upended Silurian) and popping back up again, like a time-traveling gopher (daylighting into the Devonian).
The unconformity surface is laced with boulders and cobbles – the rubble of the eroded Silurian graywackes that became a basal conglomerate for the overlying red beds.
There is some tafoni to be seen, too – always a treat!
Another thing you can see in the previous image is orangey-yellow lichen, of which there is quite a lot at Siccar Point. I was surprised at this – even though the two rock units here are very distinct in color, both actually appear similar because of all the lichen encrusting them!
In fact, there is very little "clean" rock exposed here – if it's too high up, it's covered with lichen, and if it's too low in elevation, the tides bring nutritious waters up twice daily, meaning it's prime for colonization by barnacles. In between, you might find some decent views into fresh rock. But don't hammer! This is as close to sacred ground as geologists get! Here's a view showing the vertical zonation:
In the thin zone where the rocks are clean, you can see features such as graded bedding. Here, a single turbidite is imaged, with the coarse base on the left, and then fining (younging) toward the right, where the lens cap lies atop some thin laminations:
Here's another, with the opposite geopetal implication:
It gave me a little frisson of satisfaction to walk out to the hinge of the plunging syncline I featured here as a Friday fold back in February:
Here's a view of the same fold, from the other side of that little bight — You can see the nested ">>" shape of the barnacle-encrusted turbidite layers, in this case plunging to the lower-left:
Fractures in the upturned Silurian graywackes give the clean rocks a tesselated appearance:
And not all the fractures are joints – some are faults!
So there's a lot of fun stuff to contemplate here. To provide a user-directed facsimile of a real-life visit to Siccar Point, I gathered some visuals for you. Here are four GigaPans of the site:
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Next up, here are four Theta 360 spherical photos:
Planet Hutton! Siccar Point unconformity, Scotland #theta360 – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
Siccar Point unconformity, Scotland #theta360 – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
Siccar Point unconformity, Scotland #theta360 – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
And then —our coup de grâce— we have two awesome 3D models of the unconformity surface – one zoomed out a bit:
Photoscan model by Marissa Dudek
…And closer in on a key area:
Photoscan model by Marissa Dudek
Honestly, I think these two 3D models (photo sets by me, model construction in Agisoft Photoscan by my student Marissa), are one of the most important things I have accomplished so far on this trip. Because Siccar Point is a wave-blasted headland, the outcrop surface is a complicated shape, and that makes photographing it complex. Essentially, there's one view that easily captures the relationship between the two rock units, and that's the one that everyone takes – the view that started off this post. But Siccar Point is bigger than that one view, and I think it takes something like these 3D models to convey a real understanding of the complicated geometry of the place – an important step for inducing the "giddyness" that John Playfair and James Hutton enjoyed while visiting the site.
I feel extraordinarily fortunate to have been able to visit Siccar Point with my family on such a beautiful day. I hope that you are able to access some of the giddy joy I felt there with this virtual field trip!
29 June 2016
Trace fossils in sandstone from Barns Ness
Check out this sandstone cobble I saw at Barns Ness – it comes bearing gorgeous trace fossils. Can you spot them?
Lens cap for scale in all these photos. The next three are close ups of the burrows from the previous image:
Plus two more, from other cobbles I encountered::
28 June 2016
"Dunbar marble" at Barns Ness, Scotland
Thanks to the website ScottishGeology.com, run by Angus Miller, I learned of Barns Ness, a Mississippian-aged limestone fossil site on the shore not far from where we are staying at Dunbar. We ventured out there on Saturday afternoon, in search of fossils.
The presence of the Dunbar Cemenet Works nearby is an indication that this is the most extensive limestone outcrop in central Scotland.
I set my field assistant loose on the beachy outcrops to find fossils:
The first one we spotted was a familiar sight from the shales back home – Zoophycos, a feeding trace fossil:
Then, as we worked our way down-section, the crinoids started showing up:
Other, meatier traces also appeared:
We spied a few large cross-sectioned shells – though I'm not sure quite what they would be. Maybe massive brachiopods?
Also, there were corals. Very nice corals.
A few more examples:
Finally, we found what, for me, was the object of the trip – the "Dunbar Marble," a limestone (not a marble) that was quarried as a building stone (in particular, for fireplaces) because of its lovely super-rich content of rugose corals, which are the white bits shaped like little cornucopias:
Here is the cleanest, clearest face I could find showing a cross-section of this extraordinary bed:
All of the preceding examples of the "Dunbar Marble" have been battered a bit – exposed more through the action of physical weathering (think regular poundings by pebbles and beach sand) than chemical weathering (slow dissolution of the carbonate, a bit faster in some spots and a bit slower in other spots). But this example that my wife found bucks that trend. Click on it to see the fine details of the segmentation and septae in the corals. Bonus: there's a modern limpet shell to examine, too:
Here are three GigaPans of the outcrop, which as you can see is half buried in beach sediment, if you want to explore them a bit:
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
Link GigaPan by Callan Bentley
While the GigaPans were shooting, I went for a stroll across the tidal flats. Heading for a prominent outcrop in the middle distance, I hopscotched my way accross a lumpy surface that looked stromatolitic:
I couldn't detect any convex laminations on that surface, but since the tide was coming in, I also didn't spend much time on the task. Another possibility is that these lumps and hollows represent original features in the bedding – perhaps they are associated with tree roots, according to the pamphlet linked to above. However, I did spy a boulder that had some dome-ish looking internal layering:
If I'm right that these are stromatolites, then the sample is "upside down" in these photos – the dome would bulge upward toward the sun in life position. Stromatolites are thus geopetal ("way-up") indicators.
Elsewhere, I found very crinkly little CaCO3 features, which didn't quite appear regular enough to qualify as stromatolites, but I wasn't really sure what else to classify them as. They didn't appear to have any kind of regular anatomy like I would expect from an invertebrate animal:
On a few of those, I see a shape and internal anatomy that suggests articulate brachiopods, as well as slightly-lighter colored internal sediment, suggesting a hollow chamber. But elsewhere (like the lowermost left), it looks like a layered repetitive crinkly mass.
I guess it could be more than one type of fossil. Anyhow: the tide's coming in! Keep moving!
I arrived at my target outcrop, expecting it to be the weathering face of a tough bed, but instead I found a wall-like tabular projection. It's a fault – weathering out in positive relief!
The fact that the fault weathers out in as a "wall" is plain if you look at Barns Ness from the perspective of Google Maps. It's the feature that strikes northeast-southwest across the middle part of this view. Zoom in and you can see it casting its shadow:
Close-up, it shows lots of brecciation:
Fluids percolating along the fault cemented these fragments back together, and indurated the fault trace, making it more resistant to weathering than the neighboring host rock.
The rising tide cut off my retreat along the path I had just trod, so I headed inland, and found that beneath the fossiliferous strata was a recessively-weathering shale (aren't they all?) and at its base a thin coal seam:
This site, then, is a nice exemplar of the many small transgressions of sea level during the Carboniferous that buried coastal swamps (bayous) under offshore marine sediments, condemning the plants to become coal. Groundwater flow seems to percolate through the limestone and sandstone well enough, but finds the shale an aquitard, resulting in some small effusive springs above the beach:
All told, Barns Ness had much to hold the geologist's interest – and I'd spend more time here if I had it.
27 June 2016
Small faults in upper Old Red Sandstone, Dunbar, Scotland
Dunbar, Scotland, is a nice little seaside town that also happens to be the birthplace of the conservationist John Muir. My family and I have been based out of here this week on our European geological GigaPan expedition. But on our first morning, upon visiting Siccar Point (which is nearby), I threw out my back, and spent most of the next two days recuperating. I did manage a short walk to the beach in a cove on the northwest side of town.
My son instantly keyed in on the puddles, and took his pet centipede there to play in the water:
The clean exposures of the bright red sandstone there caught my attention, and I then did my own 'keying in' – this time to the many small offsets in the primary sedimentary layering. They are exquisite!
According to the local geological map, these rocks are the Devonian- Mississippian upper portion of the Old Red Sandstone – the same stuff that caps the unconformity at Siccar Point.
It was apparently quite disturbed by the intrusion of a collection of igneous masses at ~345 Ma. Many of these small faults looked to me like soft-sediment deformation, so I don't know that I would have invoked volcanic molestation if I hadn't read about it, but regardless, they are a delight to behold. I think the primary reason I fell in love with structural geology is that structures like these are just plain beautiful.