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This is a famous location for finding fossils on the Dorset coast. Some really big and important finds were made in the late 1800s. The sea is constantly washing more of the cliff down onto the beach providing new opportunities for that once-in-a-lifetime find. I had hoped to get the focus good enough for geologists...
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A GigaPan of the bookshelf in my office intended to highlight a bunch of my "deskcrops" (geologic specimens I have a fond attachment to) for The Accretionary Wedge #4 (www.goodschist.com/2007/12/02/the-accretionary-wedge-4-call-for-submissions
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This tiny island is of course the site of the headquarters of the well-known International Rescue, but a little-known geographical feature of the Dorset Coast in the UK. The beach is one of the most fossiliferous coastal sites in England. If you have sharp eyes you may* just be able to make out cmlbath fossil-hunting a...
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This is a thin section of dunite, a rock made up almost entirely of the mineral olivine, as seen in cross-polarized light through a Leica Z6 APO Macroscope. There is a band of black mineral grains to the left of center of the image that is a cumulate layer of the mineral chromite - in the magma chamber from which thes...
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Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems see www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibitions/hillman.htm
for info on this hall of the museum
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Distant cliffs of Fort Hays Limestone. Use red/blue glasses to view the anaglyph 3D effect. Created from two 12x3 Gigapan images shot about 1 foot apart. Alignment, cropping, and anaglyph shading done in Photoshop.
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7 in a series of 10.
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The view from the WWII gun emplacement/observation bunker/thingy overlooking the harbour. For a closer view of the harbour including the Gay Archer, see share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=22503.
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The geology laboratory at Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale campus is well equipped with a diverse suite of rock samples, microscopes, maps, fossils, and models.
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As the Laurentide glacier retreated from the Champlain Valley 13,600 years ago, the ice damned the valley and Glacial Lake Vermont rose to about 170 m (550 feet) above sea level, which is the elevation of the camera. This sand and gravel was carried by an ice-marginal river that built kame terraces until it reached the...
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