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North Viedma Lake Formation, Kaiken Aike Bardas, Geological Folding near El Chalten, Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina.
Hikers and nature lovers stepping into a surreal painting of fascinating geological formations. Shot with a Canon EOS 700D from one of South Sinai's canyons.
Bire, Kandersteg, Bern, Switzerland. Heavily foldetd Helvetic nappes dominate the face of this impressive mountain top.
Błędne Skały (= wild holes/wilde Löcher), a rock labyrinth in the Central Sudete mountains consisting of sandstone, which was eroded away during millions of years.
I cannot imagine the strength and duration of the forces that first assembled and then fractured this cliff face. At the same time, I loved the abstract appearance of all the hues and cracks in this natural stone wall near the end of the Hidden Rocks Trail in George Washington National Forest near Briery Branch Virginia. (The end of the trail is atop the cliff.)
The White River Badlands are approximately 100 miles long and 5 miles wide. "The Big Badlands of South Dakota is one of the most spectacular landforms in the United States and is cut in rocks containing some of the most abundant vertebrate fossils of any rocks of the Age of Mammals (Cenozoic Era) in North America." The White River Badlands by Rachel C. Benton, Dennis O. Terry Jr, Emmett Evanoff and H Gregory McDonald, Indiana University Press, 2015.
The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve.
Badlands National Park in South Dakota is beautiful and instructive about our changing Earth. The spectacular scenery is the result of the forces of deposition and erosion. As the link to the NPS page below indicates, the Badlands current appearance is only about 500,000 years old. Continuing erosion, at a rate of about an inch annually, suggests they will be gone in another 500,000 years. That million year total is, of course, nothing more than an eyeblink in the geologic history of our planet.
The Firth of Forth (Scottish Gaelic: Linne Foirthe) is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea between Fife to the north (seen in the distance) and Lothian to the south. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times. Geologically, the Firth of Forth is a fjord, formed by the Forth Glacier in the last glacial period. Many towns line the shores, including North Berwick in East Lothian, from where this shot was taken. The island - Craigleith - is one of eleven in the firth and most of them are the remnants of some form of volcanic activity.
Geologic Wonders.....
It's almost hard for me to comprehend the natural beauty in our country. This is another drone shot from Arizona in October. The stormy sky and light just turned everything magical.
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Toadstool Geologic Park is a featured destination on the Great Plains Trail. It's 23 miles by foot from Crawford in far western Nebraska. If it looks like a smaller version of Badlands National Park, that's what it is.
Follow the Great Plains Trail: www.greatplainstrail.org/
Fracturing and weathering of rock in Joshua Tree National Park.
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I am guilty of often overlooking the intimate landscape when being out with my camera, but an overcast day in Northumberland recently gave me plenty of opportunity to practice this more delicate craft
the science which deals with the physical structure and substance of the earth, their history, and the processes which act on them.
This is a result of the Caledonian Orogeny. The picture is taken in the southern part of Sotra, outside Bergen.
Along the magnificent valley of Vesturdalur, in between Ásbyrgi and Dettifoss, the highlights you must not miss are the bizarre basalt rocks at Hljóðaklettar. A series of vertical, horizontal and diagonal columns, formed by mysterious volcanic activity, standing over the ground and modeling rosettes, swirls, spirals and honeycombs, in turn give life to enormous and puzzling rock formations of distinctive shape.
Northern Iceland. September 2015.
Detail of the beautiful and quite complex geology of the Pembrokeshire coast.
Caerfai Bay, Pembrokeshire, S. Wales
Painted Desert, part of Petrified Forest National Park.
A basalt cap overlays the Bidahochi formation above the Chinle formation. An estimated 305 meter layer appears to have been eroded away between the two formations.