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North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. North-facing slopes and shaded draws attract junipers on this landscape.
Capitol Reef National park, Utah.
Strati sedimentari di milioni di anni si susseguono in colori stupefacenti, traccia indelebile della travagliata ed affascinante storia del nostro piccolo pianeta.
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Amazingly, this 80m high hill of soft volcanic ash derived clay survived erosion. Although it referred to as blue clay, it comes in many colors, all of the having the nasty property of swelling when wet, not good to build on. Just recently the runway of the local airport had to be completely redone because it was built on blue clay....
A hard layer of paleosoil is visible just below the intense red layers. It is hard petrified jasperoid peat that formed between volcanic eruptions, and stretches for several hundred meters across the picture.
This bank of rock is just about 40 yards down the beach from the swirly sandstone outcrop of the previous shots. If you didn't know better, you would think that it was a man-made wall. The embedded boulders look to be set in cement.
A geologic curiosity at the end of Desert Road near Freeport, the Desert of Maine is a result of the Laurentide Ice Sheet of the Ice Age that was exposed around 1821 due to erosion of topsoil and overgrazing. Today, nature has begun the slow process of re-conquering the dunes with the encroaching growth of the fragrant forest that surrounds this attraction. Freeport, Maine, USA.
Una curiosidad geológica al final de la Calle Desert cerca de Freeport, el desierto de Maine es el resultado de la capa de hielo Laurentide de la Edad de Hielo que quedó expuesta alrededor de 1821 debido a la erosión de la capa superior del suelo y al pastoreo excesivo. Hoy, la naturaleza ha comenzado el lento proceso de reconquistar las dunas con el crecimiento invasor del fragante bosque que rodea esta atracción. Freeport, Maine, Estados Unidos.
Garden of the Gods is also a geologists playground. The red rocks were deposited as sea beds or sand dunes. The horizontally deposited beds were tilted and thrust upwards due to the same forces that created the Rocky Mountains. Finally the ice age caused surrounding, softer rock, to erode away and left behind some rather spectacular outcroppings.
Rocce naturali sembrano essere state tagliate da un coltello gigantesco.
Colori straordinari del paesaggio dalle parti di Muley Point, Utah.
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Devonian Era sandstone/siltstones. Many erosional features including canyons and subterranean furnas. Located near Ponto Grosso, Brazil. Shot with a Fujifilm X-T5 and a Laowa 9mm f2.8
This is another view from the north section of T Roosevelt NP. We were on a ridge looking down into eroded sections of the Little Missouri River valley. You can see the effects of uplifting and erosion as well as gray bentonite clay (old deposits of volcanic ash) - which can hold huge amounts of water and flows when it is saturated. There is also a capstone, created when harder rock doesn't erode as fast as the softer stone below it, which leaves a cap on a pillar. Finally, there is a very large petrified tree trunk revealing itself as the sandstone around it erodes.
News sources have reported this week’s massive flooding in Yellowstone National Park has forever changed the park’s landscape. Terri and I were fortunate to have spent several days in April visiting this “geological wonder of the world”. From what I understand it will be quite a while before the park is re-opened and when it does visitors will view a different landscape than before the flooding.
敦沙卡蘭海洋公園（Taman Marin Tun Sakaran）@Bohey Dulang Island Tun Sakaran Marine Park (TSMP) are situated at the entrance to Darvel Bay, off the East coast of Sabah near the town of Semporna, it took about 45 minutes by speed boat from the jetty of this small town. Named after then the Head of State of Sabah, Tun Sakaran Dandai, it was gazetted in July 2004 as Sabah’s seventh park. The Park is the largest Marine Park and covering 340 sq kilometers of sea and corals reef and 10 sq kilometers of land.
Comprising 8 islands, their surrounding reefs, and sea. Its main objective is to protect their environment and to promote sustainable use of natural resources. Geologically, the islands are formed from Quaternary pyroclastic material, which was ejected during explosive volcanic activity. Pulau Bodgaya, Boheydulang, Tetagan, Selakan, Sebangkat, Maiga, Sibuan and Mantabuan.
This one was taken coming up to a couple of months ago now. It's one of those shots that I kept on coming back to not knowing where to go with it, partly because there's no man made element in it for a change... but glad that I've finally got round to finishing it and hope I've done it justice.
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Devil's garden, Arches National Park
Are you thinking about lady fingers and tiramisu right now? :))
The story of Arches begins roughly 65 million years ago. At that time, the area was a dry seabed spreading from horizon to horizon. If you stood in Devils Garden then, the striking red rock features we see today would have been buried thousands of feet below you, raw material as yet uncarved. Then the landscape slowly began to change. Source: www.nps.gov/arch/learn/nature/geologicformations.htm
Reykjanes peninsula - Geo Park - Iceland 20200730
Reykjanes Peninsula is a UNESCO Global Geopark.
There the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rises above sea level, displaying various forms of volcanic activity that has shaped the peninsula for a long time.
Metamorphic rock textures and fabric, including white-pink veinlets, observed in a boulder. Small folds in the gneissic layering are well defined in the right third of the view, and very small folds can be seen elsewhere in this photo. (Scale: the largest (coarsest) white and pink crystals are 1-2 mm size).
C. J.R. Devaney
If these geological formations weren't so far off any beaten path they would be world known. Well, you don't have to backpack in to view them, but they are reasonably obscure to the world. When we drove around a bend in the road and saw this my jaw fell open. As pictured here you're seeing them from some distance. Approached on foot you feel like you're discovering a lost site of great significance lost to history. In some ways an extremely large panorama diminishes the sense of scale. It crowds too much into a viewable rectangle, which is not at all how my eye saw it. It was too large for that. I have other photos from other angles closer up that I will post later.
Of course these infrared photos enhance that sense of mystery, but natural light isn't much less impressive.
Canon Rebel XT (converted to Infra-red by LifePixel 830nm Filter) | Tamron SP 45mm F/1.8 Di VC USD Lens