Tomorrow, 23 educators from HESIT will be coming to VMNH to take a behind-the-scenes tour the museum and a geologic fieldtrip to Boxley Materials Quarry in nearby Fieldale. One rock from this Henry County location is a garnetiferous biotite gneiss, a light- to medium-gray, mediumgrained, highly metamorphosed sedimentary rock. This rock is part of the Fork Mountain Formation, the rocks date to the Cambrian – Late Proterozoic (505 – 900 million years ago). See Virginia Minerals (v19 n4, Nov. 1973) (image courtesy of Virginia Department of Mines Mineral and Energy).
The tour of the museum will go into areas not typically seen by the general public including the scientific labs and the Suzanne M. Lacey Education Center.
The tour of the museum will go into areas not typically seen by the general public including the scientific labs and the Suzanne M. Lacey Education Center.
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