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Group: Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection (M.A.G.I.C.)

Sediment

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Take a good, close look at sand, ash, and other sediments.

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Robin Rohrback-Schiavone
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0.583882 gigapixels
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November 18, 2012
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geology, macro, nature
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  1. The Boquillas, Fort Hancock, and Camp Rice formations are exposed here in a classic example of an angular unconformity. For an annotated view of this same scene, try this GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/129818

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  2. Sand from Scientists' Cliffs, Maryland. For more information on Scientists' Cliffs, including several gigapans of outcrops there, click here: blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2013/03/05/documenting-doomed-outcrops-scientists-cliffs-maryland Will open in a new tab or window/

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  3. Sand from the north end of Ocean Beach in San Francisco, CA.

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  4. Sand from Clam Beach in Humboldt County, CA. Image made as part of the MAGIC project (Mid-Atlantic Geo-Imagery Collection) using Northern Virginia Community College's gigamacro rig, as seen here: gigamacro.com/gigapixel-macro-imaging-system Will open in a new tab or window/

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  5. Sand from Muir Beach in Marin County, CA.

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  6. Extremely fine sand from a beach in Crescent City, CA.

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  7. Myrtle Beach, a tributary of the Smith River, lies 15 minutes north of Gasquet, CA in the Six Rivers National Forest. This gravel lay right at that day's water line. Compare it with the finer gravel farther from the water line here: gigapan.com/gigapans/125914

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  8. Myrtle Beach, a tributary of the Smith River, lies 15 minutes north of Gasquet, CA in the Six Rivers National Forest. This gravel lay 15' above that day's water line. Compare it with the coarser gravel closer to the water line here: gigapan.com/gigapans/125977

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  9. Kirby Cove, opposite San Francisco in the Marin Headlands, is a coarse sand beach bounded on one side by pillow basalts and on the other by tightly folded Franciscan chert.

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  10. This is a "doomed" outcrop of the Miocene-aged (~14 Ma) Calvert Formation on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay. "Bed 14," a distinctive fossiliferous unit, is exposed here thanks to the effort of one of the local landowners. In a month or two, this entire outcrop will be permanently covered with "hard stabilization" ...

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