JMU Junior Awarded Best Poster at National Geology Meeting

Brittany Sacco, a junior geology and environmental science major, won the Best Poster Award during the Geological Society of America’s 2011 Annual Meeting and Exposition Oct. 9-12 in Minneapolis. Sacco presented a poster on the “Depth and Temperature of the Mantle Beneath Mole Hill.”

Sacco’s poster summarizes her research at the Rockingham County landmark just 10 minutes from the JMU campus, looking at why Mole Hill formed about 48 million years ago, a time of relatively little volcanic activity in the area.

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Published October 21, 2011