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Sunset. 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.
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 where rock Larry is dissolved, worn away or broken down into smaller and smaller pieces. There are mechanical, chemical and organic weathering processes. weathering decomposes or decays rocks . (Al watba - Abudhabi UAE)
Happy new Year to all of you!
#macromondays #new
Ths has been my 1st attempt for the last macro mondays challenge called "new". It shows a tiny little fossil watch for women in monochrome look. Diameter of the clock face is just 22mm. So you can imagine that this is really a small peace on a womans wrist.
I hope you all had a wonderful start into 2023 and i wish you and your beloved ones all the best. May all your wishes come true and keep healthy !
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Looking upstream from the Beartooth Lake outlet at the Butte of the same name.
"When you visit Beartooth Lake you will immediately notice the large butte on the opposite (west) shore of the lake. This is Beartooth Butte; a formation that has a completely different geologic origin than the surrounding area. During the Devonian period (420 - 360 million years ago) this entire region was covered by a vast sea. For several million years sediments deposited on that sea bottom compacted tighter and tighter to ultimately become sedimentary rocks. The resulting layer of rock, named the Beartooth Butte Formation, was at least 150 ft thick. Here on the Beartooth Plateau, the layer has been eroded away everywhere except here at Beartooth Butte.
The sedimentary rocks that make up Beartooth Butte are loaded with fossils from the various organisms that died and were buried in the ancient ocean. Geologists and rock hounds visit Beartooth Butte to sample rocks from the formation.
While Beartooth Butte is the namesake of the Beartooth Butte formation, the layer of rock is found in other mountain locations in Montana and Wyoming. Although these locations are hundreds of miles apart, there is no doubt that all of the areas were once part of the same inland sea."
montanahikes.com
Have a wonderful (and safe) Friday and weekend!
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The most impressive sight at Fossil Bluff is this sandstone headland that has been dated to 23 million years ago. It is topped by basalt that was spewed out of the nearby Table Cape volcano 13.3 million years ago when it was still active. In the photographs I will show over the next few days you'll see clearly not only the layers in the stone, but examples of many of the fossils.
But there's much more age here than that:
"East and west of the beach you’ll see a low, flat, grey rock. This is the Wynyard Tillite, deposited by a tidewater glacier between 303 (Carboniferous Period) and 293 (Permian Period) million years ago. It was formed while Australia was part of the super continent called Gondwana. Recent research suggests the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age was characterised by a dynamic series of short-lived and severe ice advances and retreats over Gondwana, separated by periods of ice-free conditions. Wynyard’s glacier was one of these short, intense, glacial events. The Wynyard tidewater glacier deposited a 600-metre-thick succession of four different groups of sediments. They are known as the Wynyard Tillite Formation. The sediments are sandstone and conglomerate, massive (unlayered) tillite, Stratified (layered) tillite and deformed mudstones and fine sandstones."
www.warwyn.tas.gov.au/park-recreation/fossil-bluff-2/
As the name suggests, there are millions of fossils embedded in the sandstone, and in fact the oldest fossilised marsupial (Wynyardia bassiana) was found here dating from about 25 million years ago.
Fossil Bluff Conservation Area
parks.tas.gov.au/explore-our-parks/fossil-bluff-conservat...
Take a look at Richard Hawley's fabulous little video
Fossil Bluff (featuring the Table Cape Lighthouse walk)
This is a detail from a stone which was to be used as a pendant, but I never finished it.
2018 one photo each day
Macromondays theme rock
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.
Fossilien finden sich rund um den Elm ja recht häufig. Meist sind es Ammoniten im Kalkstein, der hier auf den Äckern ja quasi "wächst". Solch ein versteinerter Seeigel aus Flintstein ist da eher seltener anzutreffen. Umso schöner, wenn man auf einem Streifzug durch die Gegend solch einen schönen Ackerfund machen kann...
Looking Close... on Friday: Seashells &/or Snail Shells
(If this is not enough shell I have other options)
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.
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.
As I'm stuck indoors due to the Corona virus I have taken to a bit of micro-photography in the house, This pic was taken by firing the flash through the back of a fossil,
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.
Bristletail (Archaeognatha, Machilidae)
This species represents one of the first insects on earth, about 400 Mio years back in time.
Scales go off easily, however, they are replaced with the next molt.
Mitutoyo 20x NA 0.42, tube lens: Raynox (125mm)
Illumination: Oblique, diffused
A "fossil" from my archives, lovingly adapted to look like a very old photo…for Sliders Sunday. 😊
Have a wonderful day, everyone!
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