A Geology Field Trip to the Permian Reef and Environs
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A group of GigaPans illustrating geology in the Guadalupe and Sacramento Mountains area of west Texas and SE New Mexico.
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The Lower Mississippian Muleshoe Mound is one of the best studied Waulsortian mounds, a type of bioherm or reef composed largely of lime mud and all sorts of Late Paleozoic critters (crinoids, brachiopods, etc. but not coral).
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... and plenty of them!
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Beautiful white barchan sand dunes, almost as far as the eye can see.
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This is a closer view of the tephra blanket that erupted from Kilbourne Hole. Some stratification and crossbedding is visible as well as many of the basalt clasts and other debris that was disrupted by the eruption. Good luck trying to spot a mantle xenolith at this locality, though - it's on the south side of the cr...
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Early morning at one of the few places one can pull over and shoot a GigaPan on the Missile Range. The only birds in the air were of the feathered variety this morning.
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I wasn't quite fast enough to catch the best color of this fast fading sunburst, but I got enough of it to give you a hint of what the robot missed.
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... as seen through roadcuts leading up to Guadalupe Pass.
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A group of near-vertical fault planes. Offset here is probably related to the Basin and Range faulting in the region.
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A small-scale deltaic system in the field.
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Kilbourne Hole is a maar volcano in southern New Mexico famous for the mantle xenoliths it has brought to the surface.
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