THE INTIMACY OF MAGMA & GLACIER

For roughly the last 500 million years, the intimate story of Mount Desert Island is revealed in the island's bedrock. Intense geological events and forces of super volcanoes, mountain building, closing oceans, glaciation and other extensive erosion have contributed to this intimate story, shaping and sculpting the island to what we see today and is slowly still changing before our very eyes with rising sea levels, coastal erosion and climate change. The island is home to Ellsworth Schist, a metamorphic rock contains thin bands of white and grey quartz feldspar and green chlorite; Bar Harbor brown to grey sand and siltstones; the Cranberry Island Volcanics which are made up deposited layers of ancient volcanic ash; and granites varying between grey and pink, including a rare type of pink granite called Rapakivi. These photographs trace these intense geological processes that have and will continue to shape the story of the island.

2021