{"id":45368,"date":"2026-10-06T15:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=45368"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:42:37","slug":"carved-by-glaciers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2026\/10\/06\/carved-by-glaciers\/","title":{"rendered":"Carved by Glaciers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"type-intro wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How knowing Block Island\u2019s past can protect its future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In early June, rocks tumbled down Block Island\u2019s 150 foot tall Mohegan Bluffs, forcing the Rhode Island Department Of Environmental Management to announce closure of a stairway for accessing the popular beach below. For years, people have admired the Mohegan Bluffs for its scenic outlook and secluded beach access, but just how long have these bluffs been around for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This summer, <strong>Silvy Zhou<\/strong>, a rising senior studying film, animation, and video at Rhode Island School of Design, sought to answer this question. Guided by <strong>Dr.<\/strong> <strong>Blake Hodgin<\/strong>, a geochronologist and assistant professor at Brown University, she left no rock unturned in the search to reconstruct the timeline of Block Island\u2019s past which may unlock solutions to its future.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel like Block Island is the Rosetta Stone of glacial geology of this region,\u201d says Hodgin. \u201cFrom a geological standpoint, [Block Island]\u00a0showcases the regional history better and provides this comprehensive insight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>This piece was originally published in the portfolios of SURF undergraduates Ellen Fritz and Sydney Barnett on July 17, 2024.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arcg.is\/0H01aX\">Read the full story!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early June, rocks tumbled down Block Island\u2019s 150 foot tall Mohegan Bluffs, forcing the Rhode Island Department Of Environmental Management to announce closure of a stairway for accessing the popular beach below. For years, people have admired the Mohegan Bluffs for its scenic outlook and secluded beach access, but just how long have these bluffs been around for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1994,"featured_media":43057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-brown"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45369,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45368\/revisions\/45369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}