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Fossil dunes are hardened sand dunes shaped uniquely by desert wind . Though it looks hard these are breakable sandstones which changes its shapes very slowly unlike normal sand dunes. Normal sand dunes moves and changes shapes frequently according to wind.
A hoodoo (also called a tent rock, fairy chimney, or earth pyramid ) is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes in the desert in dry, hot areas.
Weathering is the process decomposes or decays rocks . (Al watba - Abudhabi UAE)
This is a four photo shot of a fossilized ammonite that has been stitched together. A fairly common fossil, this ammonite was cut in two to reveal the spiral growth of the creature's shell which is visible. The growth cells have filled in with different materials which have become rock over the years - somewhere between 240 - 64 million years ago. Ammonite's became extinct with the dinosaurs.
Taken 30 January 2023
An Ammonite Spiral Fossil Shell with a touch of slider work! Taken at a Camera Club photo shoot and used personal textures with Topaz filters.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
For Smile on Saturday's theme "Natural Stones"
I have a few glass bowls at home full of natural stones that I collected in different places. All are associated with moments and places that mean something to me. In a way, they store memories.
The bowl that I used for this photo contains two different collections. Pebbles that I picked up with my boyfriend in a nearby beach early in our relationship, and fossils of Jurassic brachiopods from the limestone hills next to my grandpa's vineyard.
This spot is known to have been coastline at 7 & 17 million years ago. The fossils are clearly two different ages- the younger ones crumble in your hand.
Looking Close... on Friday: Seashells &/or Snail Shells
(If this is not enough shell I have other options)
Impressions of plants from the Jurassic era...not really.
Poortmeesters, a housing complex in Delft, with two large (Delft?) blue entrance arches. The ceramic tiles are 3D printed, and designed by Studio RAP.
Design (2020); Vera Yanovschtchinsky, VYa Architects.
The imposing limestone relief of Sasso Malascarpa is rich in fossils of Conchodon (marine molluscs with a shell with two valves), which appear on the rock as heart-shaped sections.
L'imponente rilievo di roccia calcarea del Sasso Malascarpa é ricco di fossili di Conchodon (molluschi marini con conchiglia a due valve), che sulla roccia appaiono come sezioni cuoriformi.
I’m trawling the archives trying to delete some of the 28k images in LR but keep getting held up editing old ones. This is from the last ice festival in Lake Louise since the pandemic…..hoping it comes back in 2024. It’s by Team Japan, Junichi Nakamura and Shinichi Sawamura.
A place to test your ankles. Eroded but still relatively young (geologically) lava fields at the southern extent of the Sierra Nevada in California. Watch your step.
Must admit I rather like this.
Fossil Ammonite. Sp: Goniatites. Devonian 400 million years old. Morrocco.
The south end of Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, California is marked by this ridge with accompanying sea cliffs. I haven’t got down to look at it geologically yet. (Too busy playing with grandkids and taking their pics.) I am hoping to find fossils there.
The south end of Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, California is marked by this ridge with accompanying sea cliffs. I haven’t got down to look at it geologically yet. (Too busy playing with grandkids and taking their pics.) I am hoping to find fossils there.
When I look at the point from this vantage point I can see a mimetolith. A mimetolith is a natural topographic feature, or rock outcrop, whose shape resembles a person, a real or imagine animal, a plant, a manufactured item or any part thereof. Visual pattern recognition like seeing shapes in clouds and rocks; seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns is a normal human tendency. This tendency called pareidolia, was once seen as a mental disorder but is now seen as common and normal in humans. (No, I am not crazy…well maybe a little.) In this ridge I see a giant reptile crouching down at water level. Do you see it. The eye on the far right of the ridge is the easiest to see. Then let your imagination take over.
The Fossil Rim Wildlife Center near Glen Rose Texas sits in an area of flat topped ridges and grassy valleys as seen in this photo. The Ridges are mostly made of Lower Cretaceous limestones mixed with interbeds of shale, clay; siltstone and sandstone. As the name Fossil Rim implies, some of the limestones are fossiliferous and contain gastropods; pelecypods; cephalopods; ammonites; marine macrofossils; fossils