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  1. Fold

    Fold by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - folds and faults by Callan Bentley

    Asymmetric / overturned

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  2. Scale pencil

    Scale pencil by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - folds and faults by Callan Bentley

    With black bars on the side each 1 cm in length.

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  3. Scale card

    Scale card by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - folds and faults by Callan Bentley

    Inches on the top; centimeters on the bottom.

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  4. Oyster

    Oyster by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    Oyster fossils - thick, gray shells

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  5. Turitella

    Turitella by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    High-spiraled snail fossil

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  6. Scale

    Scale by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    This black bar is 1 centimeter tall.

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  7. 1 cm

    1 cm by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    This black bar is one centimeter in length.

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  8. Scale

    Scale by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    This black bar on the side of this throroughly-dismembered pencil is 1 centimeter in length.

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  9. Scale

    Scale by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    1 inch, on the DGMR scale card.

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  10. Turitella

    Turitella by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    A nice long section.

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  11. Coral fossil

    Coral fossil by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    Radiating septa.

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  12. Turitella

    Turitella by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    High-spiraled snail fossils in a variety of orientations, accompanied by thick gray oyster shells.

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  13. Turitella

    Turitella by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry by Callan Bentley

    high-spiraled snail (gastropod) fossils, cross-sectioned in a variety of orientations.

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  14. Synform

    Synform by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - overturned syncline by Callan Bentley

    Overturned? Sheared?

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  15. Slope of Cristo Rey

    Slope of Cristo Rey by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Mesilla Valley Formation - folds by Callan Bentley

    If you keep walking uphill (to the right), you can summit Cristo Rey, a laccolith topped by a cross (a popular pilgrimage site).

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  16. Scale

    Scale by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Cristo Rey: Mesilla Valley Formation - folds by Callan Bentley

    This black bar is 1 centimeter in length.

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  17. Smokestack

    Smokestack by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Angular Unconformity, west of El Paso, Texas by Callan Bentley

    These rocks are quarried for cement production.

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  18. Cristo Rey

    Cristo Rey by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Angular Unconformity, west of El Paso, Texas by Callan Bentley

    This is the large statue of the cross that adorns the summit of the Cristo Rey laccolith. The morning we were there, 3 people were robbed at gunpoint by the shrine.

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  19. Scale

    Scale by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Angular Unconformity, west of El Paso, Texas by Callan Bentley

    This Coke bottle (apparently full of urine???) gives a sense of scale tot he GigaPan.

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  20. Pyroclastic surge deposits

    Pyroclastic surge deposits by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Kilbourne Hole, detail A by Callan Bentley

    Big, powerful eruption.

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  21. Contact metamorphism

    Contact metamorphism by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Kilbourne Hole, detail A by Callan Bentley

    Baked soils

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  22. Basalt

    Basalt by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Kilbourne Hole, detail A by Callan Bentley

    The Afton flow, 70-80 ka.

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  23. Field vehicle

    Field vehicle by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Kilbourne Hole, detail A by Callan Bentley

    This is what happened to the last geologists to visit this site.

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  24. Zoom in

    Zoom in by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    Around the corner, the road cut continues. Examine it in closer detail with this GigaPan:
    gigapan.com/gigapans/129411

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  25. Detail

    Detail by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    More detail of this part of the outcrop can be seen at this close-range GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/129404

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  26. Detail

    Detail by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    More detail of this part of the outcrop can be seen at this close-range GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/129361

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  27. Detail

    Detail by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    More detail of this part of the outcrop can be seen at this close-range GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/129325

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  28. Detail

    Detail by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    More detail of this part of the outcrop can be seen at this close-range GigaPan:
    gigapan.com/gigapans/129324

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  29. Zoom in

    Zoom in by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    For a closer look at this portion of the outcrop, please visit this GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/129332

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  30. Zoom in

    Zoom in by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    For a closer look at this portion of the outcrop, please visit this GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/129331

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  31. Zoom in

    Zoom in by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    For a closer look at this portion of the outcrop, please visit this GigaPan:
    gigapan.com/gigapans/129363

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  32. Zoom in

    Zoom in by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    For a closer look at this portion of the outcrop, please visit this GigaPan:
    gigapan.com/gigapans/129366

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  33. Zoom in

    Zoom in by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1 by Callan Bentley

    For a closer look at this portion of the outcrop, please visit this GigaPan:
    gigapan.com/gigapans/129367

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  34. 10 cm

    10 cm by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #5 by Callan Bentley

    Ten centimeters of vertical distance.

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  35. Scale

    Scale by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #5 by Callan Bentley

    This stick is 1 meter tall.

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  36. Cross-cutting relationships

    Cross-cutting relationships by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #4 by Callan Bentley

    Which dike came first?

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  37. 5 cm

    5 cm by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #4 by Callan Bentley

    This is 5 vertical centimeters along the length of this meter stick.

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  38. Scale

    Scale by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #4 by Callan Bentley

    This stick is 1 meter tall.

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  39. Scale

    Scale by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #3 by Callan Bentley

    This stick is 1 meter tall.

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  40. Boudinage

    Boudinage by Callan Bentley from the GigaPan Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #1 by Callan Bentley

    of granite dikelet within Castner Marble bedding. What sequence of events does this structure imply?

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