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  1. Volcanic rocks formed the source for the sediments that formed these rocks (Brian Head formation, southern Utah).

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  2. Stratigraphy of the Straight Cliffs formation, southern Utah. (I think it's Straight Cliffs... must double check that.) Yes. Two pans of the exact same thing - wanted to compare them, of course!

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  3. Continuing on Rte. 12 to the east of "On a Clear Day..." (www.gigapan.org/gigapans/32030/), the road drops down further into the Navajo sandstone - there are some great views of the bedding layers in these rocks. The angled "crossbeds" are ancient sand dunes preserved in the sandstone.

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  4. The last Gigapan of the road trip from Pennsylvania to California came a day after the Tetons at Lake Tahoe. After leaving the Tetons we passed through Idaho Falls then crossed down in to northern Nevada. We drove as far as we could before spending the night in a hotel near a small town called Battle Mountain. Nor...

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  5. Looking off into the distance from the ridge called the Cock's Comb (formed by a fault tilting layers of sedimentary rock).

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  6. Whitman College geologists investigate beach outcrops of invasive basaltic dikes and sills just south of Seal Rock State Park on Oregon coast

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  7. Stratigraphy of the Straight Cliffs formation, southern Utah. (I think it's Straight Cliffs... must double check that.)

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  8. Pompey's Pillar is an exposed hunk of sandstone along the banks of the Yellowstone River in central Montana (the river itself is off to the right of the pan). It served for many years as a place for travelers to note their passage - from Native Americans to European trappers up until relatively recently. It serves ...

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  9. A closeup of the roadcut opposite the Canada Lake Store. Carrnockite is a type of orthopyroxene-bearing granite, which gives this rock its green hue. Orthopyroxene (rather than biotite or hornblende) reflects the granulite facies conditions under which this rock was metamorphosed. Midway through this one the partl...

  10. Radiolarian chert in Marin headlands; shot with Canon SX110IS at 10x zoom

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