Washington and Lee VA
The Virginia transect site is located about 20 km from Lexington, VA, home of Washington and Lee University. The site is within the Goshen Wildlife Management Area, east of the Goshen Branch. The shale is Rose Hill Shale. The site has thick forest cover and is situated on a very flat ridgetop flanked by steep slopes, at an elevation of 2800 ft. Winters are cold and summers are warm. Mean annual precipitation is 140 cm and mean annual temperature is 13 °C.
13 °C Temp
1400 mm Precip
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Representative photo for the Virginia transecte site.
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Setting & Research
The Virginia transect site is located about 20 km from Lexington, VA, home of Washington and Lee University. The site is within the Goshen Wildlife Management Area, east of the Goshen Branch. The shale is Rose Hill Shale. The site has thick forest cover and is situated on a very flat ridgetop flanked by steep slopes, at an elevation of 2800 ft. Winters are cold and summers are warm. Mean annual precipitation is 140 cm and mean annual temperature is 13 °C. The site is located at 37.92708 latitude and -79.54665 longitude.
Lixin Jin and Meredith Townsend auger the ridgetop location.
David Harbor joins the augering fun!
Lixin Jin and Meredith Townsend auger the ridgetop location.
David Harbor joins the augering fun!
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Shale Transect Site - Virginia
(L to R) Sue Brantley (Penn State), Nina Bingham (Penn State) and Paul Grieve (Penn State) dig a soil pit at the VA transect site.
(L to R) Paul Grieve (Penn State) and Lin Ma (Univ. Texas – El Paso) collect mesh bags measuring erosion rates at the Virginia transect site.
Soil pit
Lin Ma (Univ. of Texas – El Paso) measure pH in a stream near the Ragged Mountain transect site.
Elizabeth Knapp (Washington & Lee) prepares unweathered shale chips for burial at the TN transect site.
(L to R) Elizabeth Knapp (Washington & Lee) and Emily Flowers (Washington & Lee) help install the weather station on Ragged Mountain.
(L to R) Lizzy Mann (Washington & Lee), Tim White (Penn State), Deborah Vazguez-Ortiz (Univ. PR-Mayaguez) and Lauren Leidel (Penn State) prepare to image the subsurface using ground penetrating radar.
(L to R) Nina Bingham, Sue Brantley and Paul Grieve (Penn State) recover shale chips buried for two years.
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