Geologic Tour of the Blue Ridge Escarpment

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 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: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Downlo... Continent collision cartoon: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/... Divergent plate boundary cartoon: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/... Blowing Rock gneiss photo: https://geologypics.com/geological-it... Alluvial fan photo: wikipedia Bear photo: Caitlin Couch Stuart Smith Hang gliding clip:    • 1985-Stuart-Smith-Grandfather-Mountain-1.mp4   Iapetus image: https://mythologyexplained.com/ Skolithos image: wikipedia Stone mountain granodiorite image: wikipedia Escarpment from rift figure: http://www.geomaps.com.au/scripts/aus... ECD river profiles figure: Spotila and Prince, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.20...) Escarpment retreat figure: Prince et al., 2010 (https://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