I'm here with Joe Lebold, a geologist as
well as Christopher Wilkinson a
professor emeritus from the School of
Music here at West Virginia University
the two of you have co-written a really
interesting book it's called Roadside
Geology of West Virginia. Joe, I'm gonna
start with you...
why write this book?
Well, West Virginia
has been so many interesting things in
the past and it's really a chance to
give people a sense of the variety
of environments that have existed here
before
Christopher I'm curious for you
with your background what drew you to
want to collaborate and co-write this
book on this particular topic
It began in college when I took course
in geology and the instructor and
planted an interest in the field that
never left this was an opportunity to
put together that interest with what I
had seen of the state and what I would
come to see of the state as our
collaboration unfolded.
You were actually
auditing Joe's class, right?
Geology of West Virginia was of course I elected to
audit and the instructor in the course
was Joe Lebold
who elected to allow me in.
Very interesting, and since then you've been
working on this book. So Joe, what's
gonna stick with you what's gonna stand
out to you as those standalone
experiences of writing this book.
Well, certainly the places, being able to visit
so many different parts of the mountain
state we got to go to several spots that
I never would have had any other chance
to visit otherwise.
Chris what's gonna stand out for you?
The way the state was
put together the way it looks today as a
result of all of the forces that work
work over a hundred of millions of years
and understanding that process.
And a
2016 alumna took all of the photographs
for the book and she's now more popular
than you!
I should hope so
she did the best part, everybody wants
for the book for the pictures nobody's
mentioned the text.
The Roadside Geology
of West Virginia is available on shelves
as well as online and if you'd like to
learn more about the book you can also
visit our website just go to wvutoday.wvu.edu.
