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An annotated shot of an outcrop showing numerous examples of primary sedimentary structures.
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The Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Geology and Mineral Resources has their offices in Charlottesville, Virginia. Outside their building is an exceptional collection of large rock samples from across the state. Samples include igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks from all five physiographic provinces, a...
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GigapanMagazine.org
vol 3 issue 1
Early morning light begins to crawl down the canyon walls as campers sleep. This was captured on our first morning on the river. The water had dropped significantly overnight due to lowered release from Glen Canyon Dam, which is usually the result of less demand from the e...-
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Soap Creek Rapid (Class 5-6) 16ft Drop - August 5, 1869 - "With some feeling of anxiety we enter a new canyon this morning. we have learned to observe closely the texture of the rock. In softer stratea we have a quiet river, in harder we find rapids and falls. Below us are the limestones and hard sandstones whi...
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Having hiked up from Lower Bass Camp (River Mile 109), where our party laid over on April 7, 2010, I shot this location to provide a view of the entrance to Shinumo Creek Rapid on the Colorado River, a delightful swimming hole on Shinumo Creek itself, and the spectacular vista from one of the Grand Canyon's largest sid...
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These are Minerals 36-70 for Geo 306
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This is Devil's Lake near Baraboo, Wisconsin
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Members of Commonwealth Connections Academy's science department are working with staff from the Paleontological Research Institution, its Museum of the Earth and its Cayuga Nature Center to create a Virtual Field Environment (VFE) at and around Chickies Rock. The VFE is intended to offer opportunities for students to ...
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Devil's Racecourse in Ft. Ritchie, MD is a 700-meter-long blockfield created when the area experienced a periglacial climate during the Pleistocene. It is thought that boulders of Weverton quartzite from South Mountain on the west and Catoctin metabasalt from the east weathered out of their respective mountains and wer...
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This great little anticline is one of several accessable from the Veach Gap trail in George Washington National Forest, Fort Valley, Virginia. The rocks are from the Massanutten formation, a Silurian quartz arenite to quartzite. The folds seen here are parasitic folds which relate to the larger Massanutten Synclinorium...
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