Pacific Coast Geology
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Geological GigaPans from the Pacific coast of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
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Neck Point Park, Nanaimo. Birds and Sea Lions. Effective telephoto 600mm
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Gerstle Cove, in Salt Point State Park California. I spent an afternoon here gigapanning in 2007. I was looking at my notes from this time, and realized that I had stitcher failures back then...a newer (but not the newest :-) Stitcher did a better job than back in those days...
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Somewhere along Oregon coastline
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Somewhere along Oregon coastline
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Franciscan pillow basalts crop out at the mouth of the Big Sur River in Andrew Molera State Park. The pillow basalts represent lavas erupted underwater, probably at a mid-ocean ridge or other deep-sea setting, that were scraped up onto the continent at a convergent margin. Nearby radiolarian chert indicates the deep-se...
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Looking north along the Big Sur coast at the mouth of Bixby Creek. The rocks on the sea cliff across the cove are part of the Sur Series, a package of igneous and metamorphic rocks that represents the basement on which a volcanic arc was built after the west coast of North America changed from a passive to active conti...
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Cretaceous turbidites crop out along the sea cliff at Garrapata Beach in Big Sur, CA. Turbidites are characterized by graded bedding with coarser clasts at the bottom and finer material at the top of the deposit. They are recognized here by the alternating sands and shales in the sea cliff. Turbidites are deposited by ...
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The Palo Colorado Fault crops out behind and underneath the stairs in this view of the sea cliff of Garrapata Beach in Big Sur, California. Zooming in on the fault zone reveals slickensides on the granites to the left (northeast side of the fault), and bedding on the turbidite sedimentary rocks to the right (southwest ...
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The seacliff at Garrapata Beach exposes granite on the left (north) and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks on the right (south). The contact between the two is the Palo Colorado Fault, which is exposed beneath the stairs. The granite is Cretaceous in age (~!00 Ma), as are the sedimentary rocks. The sedimentary rocks are comp...
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View of Big Creek Bridge looking north along Highway One. A small pod of whales was passing by to left of this photo.
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