Rock rolls to Waterloo

Monday, November 23, 1998

A four-ton grey syenite rock striped with deep blue sodalite arrived on the Waterloo campus by truck last May, and settled into the Geological Garden among 50 tons of other rocks, mainly from Ontario locations. Tended by Peter Russell, the rock garden has been growing since 1986. The new rock was donated by Andy Christie, owner of the Princess Sodalite Mine, east of Bancroft. It will be dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Edwards, an Earth Sciences staff member who died in 1997.