Wissahickon Schist

Gardening in Northwest Philadelphia along the Wissahickon Watershed

Friday, April 6, 2012

Good Friday '12

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Handy &/or Amusing Links

  • Annies Annuals/CA
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  • WVWA: Wissahickon Valley Watershed Assoc.

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What is Wissahickon Schist?

The name Wissahickon Schist was first given to these rocks by Florence Bascom, the first woman geologist, founder of the Geology Department and Bryn Mawr College, and the person most responsible for a set of excellent geologic maps of the area between New York City and Baltimore drawn early in the 20th century. She named the rocks after the Wissahickon Creek because there are many excellent exposures of the rock in the area. The term schist is the name of a class of metamorphic rocks that have strong, usually thin and often irregular layering created by planar mineral grains that grew in the rock in response to high temperature and pressure. The Wissahickon Schist includes true schist -- a very mica-rich rock that often has a silvery appearance -- and layers that are very rich in quartz and so are called quartzite.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/e/jea4/VWiss/Wiss1.html

About Me

Kay Wisniewski
Middle-age, middle-class, and middle-brow(and proud of it,) I am a graduate if Spence in N.Y., Camp Trin-Trin in Hartford and whatever Drexel is calling it's Libe's school these days. I am a wife, mom of a wonderful young woman and working public library supervisor specialized in Literature and Art. I have two blogs, one on gardening in the Wissahickon valley, one on topics that do not relate to gardening.The first one is at Wissahickonschist.blogspot.com,the second is more irregular and is at lkbwbackyard.blogspot.com.
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