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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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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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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... as seen through roadcuts leading up to Guadalupe Pass.
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Site of an ancient catastrophe... Edi is standing in the Bell Canyon Sandstone. See if you can find Berti (he's waving to you). Hint: find him in the Rader Slide blocks.
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The lighting was bad, but I had to at least make an effort to GigaPan the classic view of the most famous Permian Reef complex in the world. Hopefully I'll get a chance to get back down there over Spring Break and do it again with better weather.
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Carbonate sedimentologists will know and love this one - it's one of the classic world-class localities for understanding the geology of Permian-aged reef complexes.
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Part of the Permian El Capitan Reef complex.
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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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Kilbourne Hole is a well preserved example of a maar volcano. Here we can see tephra layers blown out by the eruption overlying an older basaltic lava flow. The tephra is relatively light in color, but contains many mantle xenoliths, which makes this a favorite collecting locality for geologists.
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When I framed this GigaPan the clouds formed a nice large halo directly centered on Muleshoe Mound. Unfortunately by the time the robot got over to the clouds they had drifted a bit. It's not often I can complain about having too much blue sky. :-P
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