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Speaker: Dr. J. Bret Bennington
Topic: "The Shelter Rock Cycle: Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary Origins of Long Island"
Have an interesting rock or fossil you’d like to share or need to have identified? Bring it along and tell us about it, or ask Dr. J. Bret Bennington, our presenter, to share his knowledge about it.
Over hundreds of millions of years, Long Island was formed by formidable geologic forces including fire, mountains, and ice. Do you know that our island rests on a foundation of metamorphic bedrock 230 to 350 million years old? Or that its land surface was sculpted by the advance of a massive continental glacier during the Pleistocene Epoch? Today, you can still find signs that reveal our island’s dynamic origin–for example, a famous boulder, Shelter Rock.
Join Dr. Bennington for a fascinating presentation and Show-and-Tell. He is a professor of Geology and chair of the Department of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability at Hofstra University, and a paleontologist by training. Dr. Bennington is also involved in research on the glacial geology of Long Island and the recent environmental history of our coastal wetlands, including the history of major storms recorded in the marshes of Long Island.
Please visit: http://friendsofconnetquot.org/lecture-series.asp
or Call the Regional Environmental Education Office at
631-581-1072
Online reservations will be accepted until January 26th.
Program is FREE!
$8.00 Parking Fee to enter park
