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About This GigaPan
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David Pivin
- Explore score
- 69
- Size
- 0.27 Gigapixels
- Views
- 1997
- Date added
- May 30, 2010
- Date taken
- May 14, 2010
- Gear
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Canon EOS Digital Rebel T2i
- Categories
- Galleries
- South Central Utah Geology
- Competitions
- Tags
- comb, rock, mexican, utah, mrpiv, 360, red
- Description
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Alongside Route 163 lies the balancing rock feature that gives the area its name. Behind the hat is a remarkable geological formation that looks like a zig-zag pattern on a bolt of cloth. The ridge is one of multiple folds in the top layers of sandstone that run north-south called The Comb.
Stitcher Notes
ToggleMinimizeGigaPan Stitch version 1.0.0804 (Macintosh)
Panorama size: 274 megapixels (73288 x 3740 pixels)
Input images: 26 (26 columns by 1 rows)
Field of view: 360.0 degrees wide by 18.4 degrees high (top=9.6, bottom=-8.8)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: Canon
Camera model: Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Image size: 5184x3456 (17.9 megapixels)
Capture time: 2010-05-14 15:59:14 - 2010-05-14 16:00:33
Aperture: f/20
Exposure time: 0.008
ISO: 800
Focal length (35mm equiv.): 78.6 mm
White balance: Fixed
Exposure mode: Manual
Horizontal overlap: 38.7 to 74.4 percent
Computer stats: 8192 MB RAM, 4 CPUs
Total time 2:44 (6.3 seconds per picture)
Alignment: 13 seconds, Projection: 17 seconds, Blending: 2:14
(Preview finished in 53 seconds)
David Pivin (June 09, 2010, 01:41PM )
The entire region is covered with layers of varying density. This particular erosion is likely a combination of wind and rain and even a river nearby that isolated this butte over a long time. There are many cliffs nearby that have a more durable layer on top that is constantly flaking off as the soft sandstone layers below are eroded by rainfall and freezing combined with wind. Here is a perfect example of wind/rain erosion: Note the caps of harder stone on each of the tall hoodoos in this shot I took at Bryce, about 130 miles away from this spot.
Simon Martin (June 09, 2010, 01:08PM )
It looks similar to rock formations near a beach where the sea has eroded the lower layers of a rock but the part out of the water is left unharmed. Do you know if this is how it was created?