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A combination of anticlines, synclines, faulting, layering, and banding made for some interesting patterns in these rocks. The entire section is about 10 feet tall.
South Park Canyon
Panamint Range
Mojave Desert
In October 1981, flying tiger ancient human remains from Guizhou Provincial Museum trial excavation, the accumulation of complex, broadly divided into early and late phases. Early formation of yellow or grayish yellow, unearthed panda, Stegodon fossils, stone products are made for the late Paleolithic culture era. Advanced formation is black, black, unearthed animal genetic pulp for extant species, and human mandibular and chipped stone, grinding stone, grinding bone, pottery and other large, geological time for the Holocene, culture in the age of the Neolithic age, that about 4000 years ago to 6000 years.
Unearthed stone products made a total of 532 pieces of raw materials, mainly to flint stone, there is, nuclear, stone etc.. The stone to stone, with the forward direction of processing processing, types of hit device, a scraper, tip like device and dolabriform etc.. The scraper accounted for 76%, tip like device is small but fine processing. The axe is a symbol of the transformation of Neolithic culture. 27 pieces of polished stone, delicate process, a stone axe, stone adzes, stone spinning wheels, stone scraper, stone arrow head, small stones (spear) 8. The number of stone adzes, regular shape, with long oblique cutting tool representative. 79 pieces of bone, in addition to the 1 pieces of grinding residual bone scraper, are making bone, bone and bone shovel cone. The three notches in the teeth may be scratching the porcupine symbol. In addition to pottery and ball spinning round round cake 1, the rest are all pieces of artifacts. 1494 tablets. The uneven thickness, thickness of 1.2 cm, thickness of only 0.2 cm, high temperature, hard texture. About 70% of sand pottery, pottery sand shale pottery class accounted for 30%, very little. Sand and sand are mainly sand. Pottery ornamentation is complicated, there are thick rope lines and Fang Gewen cone, tattoo, carved lines and lines and other additional cone. There are 3 pieces of pottery pottery, which has 1 pieces of orange powder is subjected to pottery coating inside and outside the grey clay, on the exterior is painted with two parallel red bands. This is the first time in Guizhou, Guizhou is also the earliest pottery record.
The site has a new and old stone formation, and the cultural connotation is rich. Pottery appear more attractive, but considerable differences in advanced culture. These have great significance to the study of the relationship between the new and the old stone culture in Guizhou and the time continuity of the times.
In February 23, 1982, the Guizhou Provincial People's Government approved the publication of the provincial cultural relics protection units. 1981年10月，飞虎山古人类遗址由贵州省博物馆试掘，洞内堆积复杂，大致分早、晚两期。早期地层呈黄色或灰黄色，出土大熊猫、剑齿象等化石，石制品均为打制，文化时代为旧石器时代晚期。晚期地层呈黑色、灰黑色，出土动物遗髓为现生属种，并出人类下颌件和打制石器、磨制石器、磨制骨器、大量的陶片等，地质时代为全新世，文化时代属新石器时代，推测距今约4000年至6000年。
遗址出土打制的石制品共532件，原料以燧石为主，有是核、石片、石器等。石器以石片为主，加工方向以正向加工为主，类型有砸器、刮削器、尖状器和斧形器等。其中刮削器占76%，尖状器虽少但加工精细。斧形器似为向新石器文化转化的象征。磨制石器27件，加工精致，有石斧、石锛、石纺轮、石刮刀、石箭(矛)头、小石块等8种。石锛数量多，形制规整，以长形斜刃具代表性。骨器79件，除1件残的磨制骨刮刀外，均为打制骨器，有骨锥和骨铲。其中豪猪牙上的三道刻痕可能是刻划符。陶器除圆饼式及圆珠纺轮各1件外，其余全是器物碎片。计1494片。其厚度不匀，厚者达1.2厘米，薄者仅0.2厘米，火候高，质地坚硬。夹砂灰陶约占70%，夹砂黑陶占30%，泥质类陶极少。夹砂陶以夹细砂为主。陶片纹饰复杂多样，有粗细绳纹、方格纹、锥刺纹、刻划纹和附加锥纹等。陶片中有3片彩陶，其中有1片是在泥质灰陶的内外施以粉澄色陶衣，再于外表绘有两条平行的红色条带。这是贵州首次发现，也是贵州迄今最早的彩陶记录。
遗址具有新、旧石器地层叠压，文化内涵丰富。彩陶的出现更引人瞩目，但中、晚期文化差异颇大。这些对研究贵州新、旧石器文化的相互关系和时代延续问题具有重要的意义。
1982年2月23日，经贵州省人民政府批准公布为省级文物保护单位。
Taken at the Purgatory Chasm locale, on the rocky western coast of Sachuest Bay. Facing northeastward.
This famous outcrop, much beloved of soft-rock geologists, features a pale-gray, mostly coarse (and sometimes very coarse) quartzite-clast conglomerate that dates to the Pennsylvanian subperiod (Upper Carboniferous).
This region of the Eastern Seaboard belongs to the Avalonian Terrane—originally a microcontinent associated with the supercontinent Gondwana. The perpatetic landmass of Avalonia migrated far from its original setting and eventually collided with Laurentia, an ancient predecessor of North America. In doing so, it formed part of what is now New England and Canada's Maritime Provinces.
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This is an amazing geological phenomenon on the Oregon coast. Long ago, the roof of a sea cave collapsed, creating a vertical tunnel. At high tide, water is channelled up through the hole with incredible force, spewing out the top like a geyser. This well is incredibly dangerous - if anyone ever fell in, they would be killed instantly. The suction power when the water recedes is extreme. For this capture, I wanted to show the water receding back into the well. I used a longer exposure, to smooth out the water motion, and evoke the power of the water being sucked back into the well. This is an incredible sight, and is so unique, I am very happy to have been able to photograph it. This was actually a very challenging capture - I had to constantly clean filters and lenses of salt spray, and almost fell a few times. Plus, just knowing that a few feet away was certain death made it a little scary. I now have a new website - natureasart.photoshelter.com
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We were trying to make sense of a rough geological map in order to identify an exposure of Triassic conglomerate on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England.
My first attempt at boosting saturation on a lunar image to enhance colour. The source image was a single DSLR image taken at the start of the Sept 2015 TLE. with a 900mm f/7.5 scope.
The boosting technique involves multiple saturation layers in Photoshop and can be found at The AstroShake's website: www.astroshake.com
Its mostly the lava that enhances in the Mare regions. The ancient highland rock remains grey.
Blue is Titanium rich rock (mostly in Sea of Tranquility).
The mineral there was named ARMALCOLite after ARMstrong, ALdrin, COLlins - the astronauts from Apollo 11 whose LEM touched down in the Sea of Tranquility and collected samples.
Green and brown is Iron rich rock.
Deep reddish orange is metal poor rock (mostly around crater Plato to the North).
Picture: the white between the plants is the top of a stone, named gneiss. It looks like ice, and is shining.
According to the digital map of Geiteryggen, to be found via the website of the NGU, Norges geologiske undersøkelse geo.ngu.no/ it is possible to find the names of the rocks and stones in a specific municipality. Geiteryggen belongs to Hol Kommune. The Geiteryggen area is geological an area of so-called glimmergneis, glimmerskifer, metasandstein amfibolitt, and fylitt. English: mica gneiss, mica shale, metasandstone amphibolite, and phyllite.
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Geology, rocks and minerals:
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On a large block of building stone in downtown Calgary.
(This is not an abstract image because it contains orderly, realistic lines and forms that can be explained scientifically.)
Copyright J.R. Devaney
Constructed at about 1250 BC, this monumental entrance remains one of the most impressive uses of stone in all of human architecture. Despite the gate's traditional name, most modern archeological sources identify the big cats depicted in bas relief as lionesses rather than lions. Their missing heads may have been crafted from bronze or another metal rather than stone.
Interestingly, the Triassic-to-Jurassic limestone used for much of Mycenae's cyclopean masonry is found here only in the sculpted triangular section. The jambs and lintel of the doorway, and also the massive, dressed-face ashlar blocks, are the hard, Pliocene-to-Pleistocene conglomerate quarried in the valley nearby.
If you look closely, you'll see that the conglomerate contains visible chunks of the older limestone and other rock types eroded and then transported from higher elevations into the Argos Graben. Some of these particles are quite angular in shape, which indicates that they did not travel far before being relithified. Still, there are enough rounded and subrounded cobbles for this rock to be classified as a standard conglomerate rather than as a breccia.
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One of the many lovely rock formations that are found on Spittal beach. The pebbles may have been placed there!
Scale: each of the larger, elongate black fragments are about 2 cm wide.
As noted for previously posted shots of this same breccia (see captions for breccia photos in my "Geology in building stone" album), this is a tectonic breccia, produced via fault motion and hydrofracture veining. Larger fragments/clasts can be seen being disaggregated into smaller fragments ('caught in the act,' we might say), with some small clusters of fragments showing jigsaw-like patterns where the pieces (smaller fragments) can be fitted back together. Note the numerous examples of small whitish veinlets cutting across and breaking apart the larger dark fragments.
C. J.R. Devaney
A view of the park's Round Bluff. Here the Pounds Sandstone Member of the Pennsylvanian-subperiod (Upper Carboniferous) Caseyville Sandstone shows the scooped-out tafoni texture that sometimes develops in weathered sandstone.
The otherworldly pale-blue color of the rock face is largely the result of the crustose-lichen community inhabiting it. The cliff is also home to various nonvascular-plant (liverwort and moss) species.
To see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit Integrative Natural History of Southern Illinois album.
Das Dachstein-Massiv ist ein Kalkgebirge der nördlichen Kalkalpen und reich an Höhlen. An seiner Nordseite, hoch über dem Hallstätter See bei Obertraun liegt im Inneren des Krippensteins die so genannte Mammut-Höhle. Der Ost-Eingang dieser Schauhöhle (hier am Foto) ist in 15 Gehminuten ab der Mittelstation der Krippenstein-Seilbahn zu erreichen.
The Dachstein massif is a limestone mountain group of the Northern Limestone Alps and is rich on caves. At his north face, high above the Lake Hallstatt next to Obertraun, is located the so called Mammoth Cave inside the mountain Krippenstein. The east entrance of this show cave (here at the photo) is reachable within 15 walking minutes from the middle station of the Krippenstein ropeway.