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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Ron Schott

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environmental, landscape, nature, travel, geology

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geology, Permian Reef, Muleshoe Mound, El Capitan, texas, New Mexico

• Muleshoe Mound, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico by Ron Schott
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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    January 19, 2009

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• Dry Delta by Ron Schott
A small-scale deltaic system in the field.
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    January 18, 2009

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• Mudcracks by Ron Schott
... and plenty of them!
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• Dog Canyon, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico by Ron Schott
Another rangefront panorama...
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• White Sands (View#2) by Ron Schott
Beautiful white barchan sand dunes, almost as far as the eye can see.
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• Tracks by Ron Schott
Who passed this way?
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• White Sands (View #1) by Ron Schott
Awash in a sea of gypsum sand! A heavily travelled sea of gypsum sand...
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• San Andres Mountains, White Sands Missile Range by Ron Schott
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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