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  1. Again with the tilted rocks....

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  2. This roadcut perserves ripple marks that are now nearly two billion years old. Tilted during the Penokean Orogeny, these rocks are also some of the oldest redbeds (evidence of an atmosphere with free oxygen) in the world.

  3. Again with this particular set of tilted rocks.... field geologists still poking around measuring the sedimentary layers here.

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  4. 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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  5. Looking off behind the tilted layers is a rather scenic view (red rocks somehow make everything look better, maybe?)

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  6. December, 2010, Gaviota, California coast, west Haskell beach, walk to Dos Pueblos Canyon. top view: www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=pr627v502qq8&lvl=16&dir=0&sty=b Will open in a new tab or windowzoom in on this map to see the suburban ranching

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  7. Viewed from Frederick County (Opequon Creek is the dividing line), you can see strata of the Ordovician-aged Edinburg Formation limestones and shales. These anticlines and synclines formed during Alleghanian mountain-building in the late Paleozoic. Another set of folds is just upstream: gigapan.org/gigapans...

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  8. This sample was contributed by Dr. Jay Kaufman of Univeristy of Maryland. Writes Dr. Kaufman: "This slab, which is about 3.5" across, comes from the ca. 3.5 billion-year-old Barberton Mountainland greenstone belt. Lapilli form during volcanic eruptions into a wet atmosphere by accretion around a central nucleus of ...

  9. This outcrop of the Tuscarora Sandstone arched up along the Hanging Rock Anticline, occurs west of Wardensville, West Virginia, along Corridor H, the new section of Route 55. Perspective is looking along strike to the south/southwest.

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