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Gallery: Columnar Jointing

Columnar Jointing

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GigaPans that illustrate columnar jointing.

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Ron Schott
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1.43006 gigapixels
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414
Dated added
November 17, 2012
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environmental, geology, landscape, nature, travel
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  1. Svartifoss waterfall in Skaftafell National Park, sothern Iceland (home of Vatnajokull - the third largest glacier in the world). Taken by Ian Ingram and Ben Kinsley.

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  2. Palisade Falls in Hyalite Canyon are a remarkably picturesque site. The falls drop over a columnar jointed basalt flow which was erupted atop Eocene (?) conglomerates (Absaroka volcanics?). This GigaPan is about a tenth of the size of the one I intended to shoot. Unfortunately I hadn't carried a spare set of batteri...

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  3. What really caught my eye in this one was the near-horizontal columnar jointing in the basalts across the lake.

  4. Beacon Rock, the exposed core of an ancient volcano, dominates the middle section of the Gorge. It stands 848 feet tall above the mighty Columbia, and in these parts is considered to be the second largest monolith in the world, next to Gibraltar.

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  5. in the Columbia Gorge

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  6. Devils Tower as viewed from the National Monument group campsite. The cottonwoods were just beginning to turn yellow for fall.

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  7. Early morning view of the west side of Devils Tower.

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  8. After a long drive I arrived at Dry Falls just before sunset, but in time to fire off this GigaPan. I'd like to have had a little more sunlight to do a more detailed shot, but sometimes you just have to trade off detail for speed - especially when the sun is setting fast.

  9. This GigaPan illustrates the Yellowstone River eroding down through a series of sediments and lava flows that have filled its valley in the last two million years. The prominent columnar jointed lava flows across the canyon are about 2 million years old and sandwich a layer of probable glacial till. The light was gre...

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  10. This one's for you, Silver Fox.

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