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  1. Folded and faulted sequence of Carboniferous (Westphalian) sandstons and shales from the Bude Formation, exposed north of the seapool at Summerleaze Beach in Bude, Cornwall, England. The Bude Formation was deposited in a basin at the northern edge of the closing Rheic Ocean and was then deformed in the Variscan orogeny...

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  2. Taken from near the lifeguard lookout hut, this panorama shows the interbedded sandstones and shales of the Westphalian Bude Formation in the wave-cut platform of Summerleaze Beach, at Bude, in North Cornwall. The panorama was taken towards the west and the beds have a roughly east-west strike (typically we measured ar...

  3. This syncline is at Summerleaze Beach, Bude, Cornwall. The interbedded shales and sandstones are from the Bude Formation, deposited during the Westphalian (Upper Carboniferous) as the last remnants of the Rheic ocean were infilled with sediment. The photograph is taken facing East, roughly along the strike of the beds....

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  4. Anticline / syncline pair, new New Route 55, west of Moorfield, West Virginia

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  6. At Ableman's Gorge, a former quarry, 1.7 billion year old ripple marks form a vertical wall scores of feet high. Stop and think about what that means -- the sand that eventually became this rock was laid down at a time when the only living things on planet were unicellular. And the forces that can stand this up to vert...

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  7. The north side of the Interstate 68 roadcut at Sideling Hill nicely exposes the syncline that holds up the crest of this long Appalachian ridge. How many geologic units can you identfy?

  8. Interstate 68 passed through Sideling Hill in a way that makes geologists and civil engineers salivate. You can see the benched, blasted roadcuts well in this GigaPan. The geology, though visible here, will be seen more clearly in the GigaPan that I shot from the opposite side of the highway.

  9. A famous locality for structural geologists outside Shamokin, Pennsylvania. The Whaleback, the low ridge in the center of the quarry, is the surface of an anticline exposed by coal mining. On the left (east) wall of the quarry one can see the anticline-syncline pair that was the subject of my first ever GigaPan (shot...

  10. The West Castleton Fold was the subject of my second ever (non-robotic) GigaPan (share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1204).This shot illustrates the axial region of a recumbant syncline in the Poultney Formation of the Giddings Brook Slice of the Taconic Allochthon. This outcrop is a textbook example of axia...

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