Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection (M.A.G.I.C.)
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Here is a nice folded section of the Devonian-age Foreknobs formation West of Gore, Virginia along US rt 50. The Foreknobs Formation ( formerly known as the Chemung) is a mixed package of brownish red to grey sandstone siltstone shale and minor conglomerate
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This was collected alongside Ras Al Khor Road just outside of Al Habab, Dubai. Al Habab is surrounded by dunes; as you might expect, this sand is an aeolian sediment. It represents a midway point between the soft beach sands of Jumeira to the west-northwest, and the coarser, water-transported sediments of Wadi Al Khame...
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Another look at some nice exposures of the Devonian Foreknobs Formation along Rt 50 west of Gore, Va.
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This is a look at a few small folds in the sandstones, siltstones and shales of the Devonian Foreknobs Formation.
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Sample 17 is a striated and faceted stone embedded in a sandy diamictite matrix. The erosional surfaces of the pebble suggest that it was in direct contact with mobile basal ice. The flattened (faceted) surfaces of the pebble were formed as the pebble scraped along the bedrock beneath the moving basal ice. The striatio...
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This view shows the bedding plane of a slab of Massanutten Sandstone dipping into Passage Creek just upstream of Red Hole. For GigaPans of the larger site, please see: gigapan.com/gigapans/113761 and gigapan.com/gigapans/113759 Trace fossils can be observed in some places on this slab. Blue Hole ...
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Blue Hole is a popular swimming hole on Passage Creek in the northern part of George Washington National Forest, about 1 mile north (downstream) of Elizabeth Furnace, and 3 miles south of Waterlick, Virginia. The rock here is Silurian-aged Massanutten Sandstone. This site is just north (downstream) of Red Hole: ...
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Red Hole is a popular swimming hole on Passage Creek in the northern part of George Washington National Forest. The site is about one mile north (downstream) of Elizabeth Furnace, and three miles south of the "town" of Waterlick. The rock here is Silurian-aged Massanutten Sandstone. For another view, take a look ...
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Red Hole is a popular swimming hole on Passage Creek in the northern George Washington National Forest, about a mile north of Elizabeth Furnace, and 3 miles south of Waterlick. The rock here is Silurian-aged Massanutten Sandstone. For another view, take a look at this GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/113761...
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East Greenland #22 is a finely laminated buff yellow cherty carbonate mudstone (dolostone). This sample was taken from the unit that directly overlies the Storeelv formation glacial deposits. The sharpness of the contact between the Storeelv glacial succession and the overlying cap carbonate implies a rapid transition ...
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