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Flesh & Stone Series: The Geologic History of Stony Creek Granite and the Connecticut Shoreline

  • WWM Library 146 Thimble Island Road Branford, CT, 06405 United States (map)

The Geologic History of Stony Creek Granite and the Connecticut Shoreline

Presented by Jay Ague

Thursday, November 13, 7PM

Event Eleven of a year-long series to mark the publication of the book, Flesh & Stone.

Jay Ague is the Henry Barnard Davis Memorial Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Yale University and Curator-in-Charge of Minerology and Meteoritics, Yale Peabody Museum. He studies fluid flow, chemical reactions, and heat transfer in the Earth’s crust and upper mantle with a focus on the metamorphic and igneous rocks comprising the deep roots of mountain belts. He contributed the “Earth Forces” chapter to Flesh & Stone.

Sponsored by a friend of the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library.

Earlier Event: November 12
Dinovember Author Visit, Activities and Crafts