Greg McHone's web sites

Before institutional profile pages, a working scientist's own site was where the useful material lived, and this is one of them: the pages of a certified professional geologist who taught and published on the geology of the Connecticut valley and the wider Atlantic margin. What such a page collects is not a resume but a working index — field guides, regional geology, a set of papers offered as files, and links to the questions the author actually argued about.

The arguments are the interesting part and they have not gone stale. Whether mantle plumes exist at all remains a live dispute in igneous geology; the great magmatic province that opened the Atlantic, and the giant dikes that record it across the northeast of the continent, are still mapped and dated; and the field relationships noted here — a contact between valley siltstone and the basalt that flooded over it — are the kind of observation a student can still go and stand on. Alongside that sit the pages a general reader wants: day trips, an island's geology, guides to identifying stones.

The page is kept as it was published on this domain. Contact details, book availability and the seller name for mineral specimens are historical, and the author's current affiliations are published elsewhere. What remains useful is the map of the subject and the reading it points to.