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This canyon, a popular climbers destination near Santa Fe, was the scene of a geologically recent lake of lava, from the Valles Caldera volcano.
I think :-) This 'rock' is extremely brittle and I think made from relatively recent ash put down in the layers you can see... Any geologists please feel free to correct me :-)
Taken almost directly across the canyon from the previous photo. I like how these columns look, bent, then solidified.
Three shot panorama auto-stitched in Lightroom.
Aldeyjarfoss waterfall at the north of Sprengisandur sands in the northern part of the Icelandic Highlands, N-Iceland.
A gorgeous day spent driving around, photographing and getting into adventures with my friend Lára.
Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon.The beauty of the falls is due its flow over volcanic basaltic rock on the Upper Sandy River. The falls are 120 ft (37 m) high. It is accessible from the Pacific Crest Trail, but the due to terrain changes, is currently very hazardous to access. Best viewed enlarged!
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At the harbor in Stykkishólmur. There are stairs to the top, but we didn't have the time or inclination this trip, as it was quite cold and windy during our wait for the ferry to the Westfjords.
Thought I would go ahead and try my hand at adding textures to this photo. Also added a simple 2px border. I used the Grunge v texture created by struckdumb.deviantart.com/
Please provide a critique as this is my first time at using textures. Thank you! :)
With abundant and diverse plants and lichen.
wa100.dnr.wa.gov/columbia-basin/flood-basalts
Compositionally Challenged, June Most Versatile: Great Outdoors (Rocks)
The first time I had gone to Svartifoss I barely remembered it. Once we arrived I understood why: Svartifoss really is the most overrated waterfall in Iceland. And the worst thing, we had to walk three kilometers uphill. She barely complained. But I'm sure she will forget about Svartifoss, like me years ago.
Columnar basalt in Hljóðaklettar North Iceland. It can create an amazing pattern and in this case it has weathered in a strange way.
Across Tower Creek from the Tower Fall overlook is an eroded outcrop of the Junction Butte Basalt. This lava flowed about 2 million years ago, after Yellowstone’s first great caldera-forming eruption created the Huckleberry Ridge Caldera 2.1 million years ago. The lava was extruded north and outside of the caldera.
Another view of some of the basalt columns which make up The Giant's Causeway at Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Vertical basalt columns (columnar jointing) in northeast Iceland.
As lava cools down, it contracts and forms cracks. Geologists believe that columnar jointing forms when the lava surface is exposed to water shortly after it stops advancing, causing it to cool quickly. This can happen when lava flows dam rivers and streams.
Mossman River flows over the basalt remnants of an ancient lava field from the Great Dividing Range about twenty kilometres to the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. Its course is through spectacular rain forest a vestige of which is the draping vine over the river in the photograph.
This is the rock is visible at the top of the cliffs at Kalae on the Island of Hawaii. Basalt with holes or vesicules making up to 50% of the rock is called vesicular basalt. (When the vesicles are over half the volume of a specimen, it is called scoria.) These textures forms when dissolved gases come out of solution and form bubbles as the magma decompresses at the surface. Some gas escapes yet other gas bubbles get trapped in the lava as it quickly hardens. The holes are left by the traped gases.
At the Svartifoss the Stórilækur falls over a rock ledge framed by basalt pillars like organ pipes. At the foot of the waterfall were some debris of these basalt columns, on which the falling water pours
X-Pro3 with XF 14mm
Maybe Iceland's most beautiful basalt columns.
Unfortunately the water hasn't got the greenish color anymore due to the overrunning of the dam which uncovered this canyon years ago.
I had headed out to find each trees and photograph them in the evening light. Well most of the larch in the area had been cut for lumber and the clouds and wind rolled in so I had to look for something else. I had seen this canyon on google earth but didn't really know where it was. As I was driving the forest service roads I noted a steep drop to my right and decided to check it out and boy! I'm glad I did.
The canyon is mostly bare rock with only a few bushes and trees in the very bottom. Needless to say I had the place to myself.
2 cottonwood trees struggle to survive deep in a canyon of solid basalt rock.
My current favourite location to shoot - Bombo Quarry (The Boneyard) . Was playing around with some of theimages to try and camouflage the blown out sky. This place at high tide with a big swell is awe inspiring.
www.geomaps.com.au/scripts/bomboheadland.php
For Our Daily Challenge Group 1 - Monochrome
Out yesterday to the South Fork of the McKenzie river where I walked up Basalt Creek. This is a fantastic creek with many small waterfalls and cascading flows. I will post more later.
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