Gneiss, Gneiss, Baby - a.k.a Purdue Rocks!

Hi from Indiana! On Wednesday morning, Cristina Carbajo (Scholar ’05) led us on a really gneiss tour of Purdue’s campus erratics. (sorry, I know, I know, the geology puns). They’ve put together a Geology Walking Tour to get folks interested in geology and the natural world. I learned that there are large, well-valued limestone deposits in Indiana that are used extensively in East Coast architecture. I related everything I remembered about crystals to Crystal. (man, I’m on a roll – but it’s true!) We also went on a walking tour of trees and saw what I think was a locust tree, with ginormous curly bean/seed pods. Jen pointed out that they were curly like Savanna’s hair (but not nearly as awesome, I might add).

Off to Chicago!

By: Kayanna Warren