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This is a highly deformed section of the Devonian Foreknobs Formation exposed near Bergton Va. The Foreknobs Formation ( formerly known as the Chemung) is a mixed package of brownish red to grey sandstone siltstone shale and minor conglomerate. This formation is part of the Catskill Delta, a shallowing upward sequence...
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This is brecciated quartzite in the Cambrian Antietam formation of the Chilhowee group in the Blue Ridge Province of Virginia. The Antietam Formation caps the transgressive clastic sequence of the Chilhowwe group and is interpreted as representing a beach/barrier environment. Also check out a few gigapans I made o...
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This is brecciated quartzite in the Cambrian Antietam formation of the Chilhowwe group in the Blue Ridge Province of Virginia. The Antietam Formation caps the transgressive clastic sequence of the Chilhowwe group and is interpreted as representing a beach/barrier environment. Also check out a few gigapans I made o...
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Tonoloway Limestone exposed in the northeast wall of the "Old Derrick" Quarry, along Rt. 50, near Romney, WV. The quarry's late Silurian-aged peritidal carbonates were laid down in the Tippecanoe sea. Its strata primarily record a tidal flat environment, with conspicuous mudcracks, laminites, stromatolites, and sal...
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From overlook a few miles north of route 653, Laurel Ridge State Park, Pennsylvania. From 9 photographs shot with a Sony RX100, stitched using Photoshop.
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Gravel deposits that overlie the eroded roots of the metamorphic Appalachian belt in Washington, DC. These gravels are well-rounded and poorly sorted, and contain clasts sourced to the Antietam Formation in the Blue Ridge. The age of the gravels is not entirely clear. They may be as old as Cretaceous, or perhaps "Terti...
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A walk of the prime numbers through 100 million that begins with an upward path. The path moves forward for every non prime and turns left every time a prime number is encountered. Color starts at red and slowly goes through green and finally to blue.
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After a day and night of heavy rainfall Jan. 30, Passage Creek flooded its banks in the Fort Valley on the morning of January 31, 2013. For another view (lower on the hill), try this GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/122529
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Shadow Self-Portrait by Opportunity at Endeavour Crater NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / Arizona State Univ.
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From Leisenring, west of McConnellsburg, PA. The pattern is sandstone cemented by limonite. This sample is on display in the USGS headquarters in Reston, VA, and is on loan from the Smithsonian Institution.
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