Mountains take millions of years to form, but what would it be like to watch one grow right before your eyes! What would it look like to slice one in half and look inside? Why are some mountains, like Mt. Everest, so big and others, such as our Appalachians, much smaller? This exhibit features a mountain building table where flat layers of sand and flour are deformed to show the processes of folding and faulting that occurs beneath the surface to form the roots of mountain belts and the erosion that tears them down. Also, you can create your own mini-mountain by deforming layers of play-dough. Come experience the processes that build up and destroy a mountain belt from its deepest roots all the way to the surface!
Virginia Tech Geosciences, Tectonics and Geomorphology Group
The Metamorphic Petrology group studies how rocks transform beneath the Earth's surface in response to changes in temperature and pressure, which reveals information about both the small-scale processes (i.e. chemical zoning in minerals) and large-scale processes (i.e. the formation of mountain belts) that operate on Earth.
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