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A wide view of the West Castleton Fold. The West Castleton Fold was also the subject of my second ever (non-robotic) GigaPan (share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1204). Lighting was not optimal this time, but I did the best with what I had. Unfortunately, there would not have been time to shoot bracketed HDR...
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This is the last remaining quarry stick still vertical in the Slate Valley Region of New York and Vermont. These quarry sticks were used to ferry refuse slate away from the finishing areas and then dumped around the sticks. Over time, as the slag piles increased in height, more 'splices' were added to the existing st...
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A view looking northeast into a modern day quarry owned by the Taran Bros Slate Company also home to the former Eureka Quarry. The Eureka Quarry was the first slate quarry established in Poultney in 1852. Within the quarry the West Casleton Formation dips to the east and exposes numerous quartz filled fractures and s...
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Geology fans - this is the remains of a shale/slate mine (low quality slate) which now sees use for water sports ("Coasteering" were there and a school party). Difficult to find a single shot which conveys it - we wandered round for a while before picking this one, chosen to show the hole through the slate an...
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This is an outcrop located on the north side of Rt 4 between exits 4 and 5 in east-central Vermont. This formation is characterized by "purple, gray-green, and variegated slate and phyllite containing minor interbeds of white to green quartzite; locally albitic. Purple and green chloritoid-bearing slate and phyllite i...
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2010-03-28, Berwyn Slate Quarry
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Highly folded series of the "Plougastel Formation" in the Monts d'Arrée (Brittany, France).
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Highly deformed series of the "Plougastel Formation" in the Monts d'Arrée (Brittany, France). The geodynamic interpretation of this particular structure is discussed in the following publication: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2007.01.002
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Highly deformed series of the "Plougastel Formation" in the Monts d'Arrée (Brittany, France).
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This exposure of the Lower Martinsburg shows bedding within the strongly cleaved limy slate.
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