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  1. Harbor Seal

    Harbor Seal by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Seals at Hopkins Marine Lab, Pacific Grove, CA by ahochstaedter

    resting

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  2. Hopkins Marine Lab

    Hopkins Marine Lab by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Seals at Hopkins Marine Lab, Pacific Grove, CA by ahochstaedter

    Part of Stanford University

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  3. Granite

    Granite by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Seals at Hopkins Marine Lab, Pacific Grove, CA by ahochstaedter

    coarse grained plutonic rock

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  4. Harbor Seal

    Harbor Seal by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Seals at Hopkins Marine Lab, Pacific Grove, CA by ahochstaedter

    Wathcing me

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  5. Elephant Seal

    Elephant Seal by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Seals at Hopkins Marine Lab, Pacific Grove, CA by ahochstaedter

    Young male

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  6. Pipes

    Pipes by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Ft Ord Dunes St Park -- Erosional Ditch by ahochstaedter

    Pipes sticking out the wall of the ditch reveal the recent and rapid erosion of this ditch. Observers can see the poorly sorted backfill material that was used to backfill these trenches after the pipe was layed.

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  7. Disturbed sediment

    Disturbed sediment by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Ft Ord Dunes St Park -- Erosional Ditch by ahochstaedter

    The process of digging a trench laying the pipe in the trench and then backfilling the ditch with poorly sorted material is now recorded in the wall of the erosional ditch.

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  8. Cross-Bedded Sands

    Cross-Bedded Sands by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Ft Ord Dunes St Park -- Erosional Ditch by ahochstaedter

    Cross bedding in sands indicative of deposition in a dune environment.

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  9. Soil Horizons

    Soil Horizons by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Ft Ord Dunes St Park -- Erosional Ditch by ahochstaedter

    nice soil horizons developed in the older dune sands.

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  10. Oxidized Sand

    Oxidized Sand by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Ft Ord Dunes St Park -- Erosional Ditch by ahochstaedter

    The older dune sands have developed an oxidized layer, or B soil horizon. This horizon does not follow the dune surface to the left, indicating that the active dunes to the left have buried the older dunes beneath them.

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  11. Active Dune

    Active Dune by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Ft Ord Dunes St Park -- Erosional Ditch by ahochstaedter

    At the top of the active dune a much smaller soil profile has developed. A small amount of organic matter has been added to the surface of the dune, but a prominent B horizon has not developed.

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  12. Pacific Ocean

    Pacific Ocean by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Ft Ord Dunes St Park -- Erosional Ditch by ahochstaedter

    this snapshot shows the top of the seacliff that is rapidly eroding.

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  13. Interpretive Signs

    Interpretive Signs by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Ft Ord Dunes St Park -- Erosional Ditch by ahochstaedter

    Interpretive signs explain the ecology and geology of coastal dunes at Ft Ord Dunes State Park. The top of Stillwell Hall would have been visible about here before it was demolished in 2003.

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  14. Layered Sands

    Layered Sands by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Plio-Pleistocene Sediments in the Monterey Area by ahochstaedter

    Strongly layered sands with cross bedded structures. Shown in more detail here: zoom.it/S9y4 Will open in a new tab or window

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  15. Gravels

    Gravels by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Plio-Pleistocene Sediments in the Monterey Area by ahochstaedter

    Gravels with weak layering

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  16. Layered sands

    Layered sands by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Plio-Pleistocene Sediments in the Monterey Area by ahochstaedter

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  17. Golf Course on Flood Plain

    Golf Course on Flood Plain by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Carmel Valley View by ahochstaedter

    Golf course built on the Carmel River flood plain.

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  18. Terrace

    Terrace by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Carmel Valley View by ahochstaedter

    The scarp marking a subtle change in elevation along these bushes delineates the boundary between the flood plain on the right and the fluvial terrace on the left.

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  19. Fluvial Terrace

    Fluvial Terrace by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Carmel Valley View by ahochstaedter

    This flat area is a fluvial terrace, a former flood plain of the Carmel River. Since eroding this flat planar area and depositing flood plain sediments upon it, the Carmel River has eroded to a slightly lower elevation, leaving this older flood plain to become a fluvial (river) terrace.

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  20. Cut bank erosion

    Cut bank erosion by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Carmel Valley View by ahochstaedter

    The Carmel River has eroded into the hillside here on the outside of one of its meanders as it flows through the Carmel Valley.

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  21. Carmel River

    Carmel River by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Carmel Valley View by ahochstaedter

    The Carmel river flows though this wooded channel.

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  22. Carmel River

    Carmel River by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Carmel Valley View by ahochstaedter

    Carmel River is visible through the trees.

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  23. Ancient Landslide

    Ancient Landslide by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Carmel Valley View by ahochstaedter

    Golf course and housing developments built on ancient landslide deposits.

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  24. The Red Banks

    The Red Banks by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    The Red Banks are a prominant landmark located on lookers right of the Avalanche Gully climbing route.

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  25. Avalanche Deposit

    Avalanche Deposit by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    Hummocky topography of the avalanche deposit from ancestral Mt Shasta, deposited some 300- 350 thousand years ago. BIG!

    Shasta Valley lies to the left.

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  26. Dillar Canyon

    Dillar Canyon by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    A very wild looking place.

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  27. Shastina Summit

    Shastina Summit by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    All of the eruptive products associated with Shastina erupted within a few hundred years about 9500 years ago.

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  28. Not the Whitney Glacier

    Not the Whitney Glacier by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    The Whitney Glacier lies just over this ridge.

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  29. Misery Hill

    Misery Hill by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    An eruptive vent seperate from the summit cone. Misery Hill is so named by climbers who must climb its 1000 foot flanks just before reaching the summit of Mt Shasta.

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  30. The West Face

    The West Face by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    A very nice ski in the late spring and early summer.

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  31. Hidden Valley

    Hidden Valley by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    Favorite camping spot for those climbing the West Face route to the summit of Shasta.

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  32. Casaval Ridge

    Casaval Ridge by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    Casaval Ridge separates Avalanch Gulch (behind and to the right) from Hidden Valley (in front and to the left).

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  33. Lake Shastina

    Lake Shastina by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    Lake Shastina is a reservoir nestled in the hummocky topography of avalanche from ansestral Mt Shasta. I've got a Gigapan from this site as well.

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  34. Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture

    Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    www.bbcrc.org Will open in a new tab or window/From their website:
    The Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture was founded in 2008 as a way to support and develop a community-building institution focused on railroad culture in the western United States. The BBCRC is located on the site of a long-abandoned junkyard amid several acres of forest, chaparral, and wetlands directly adjacent to Black Butte Siding, the junction of the Union Pacific and Central Oregon and Pacific railroads right on the southeast edge of Weed, California at Milepost 345. Directly across from our site is the Black Butte water tank, a historic 1926 steam-era structure. Mt. Shasta towers a few miles to the east and Black Butte, a 6300' volcanic cinder cone, is just two miles to our southeast.

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  35. Weed

    Weed by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Mt Shasta from Black Butte by ahochstaedter

    The sign at the entrance to Weed reads "Weed like to Welcome You". Weed is also the home of the Hi-Lo Cafe, the best restaurant in town. www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g33245-d1013258-Reviews-Hi_Lo_Cafe-Weed_California.html Will open in a new tab or window

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  36. Normal Fault

    Normal Fault by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Deer Mountain Tephra Unconformity by ahochstaedter

    A small amount of offset has occured along this apparent normal fault.

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  37. Angular Unconformity

    Angular Unconformity by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Deer Mountain Tephra Unconformity by ahochstaedter

    This angular unconformity probably does not reflect a long passage of time.

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  38. Spheriodal Weathering

    Spheriodal Weathering by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Elephant Rocks, MO by ahochstaedter

    These boulders are core stones remaining from an extended period of spheroidal weathering.

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  39. Weathering Pans

    Weathering Pans by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan Elephant Rocks, MO by ahochstaedter

    Chemical weathering associated with pooled water at the edges of the pan are thought to form weathering pans. The bottom of the these pans is often filled with grus, grains of quartz and feldspar.

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  40. Fractures

    Fractures by ahochstaedter from the GigaPan El Capitan by ahochstaedter

    More fractures. You can almost hear the crack of the rock.

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