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Horses graze on spring-fed green grass in front of the beautiful, heavily eroded red cliffs above the village of Dhakmar, Mustang, Nepal
The striking beauty of the Oneonta Gorge slot canyon in the Columbia River Gorge outside of Portland Oregon.
A geologist's and a rock hound's paradise. The tortured clliffs contain evidence millions of years of earth's evolvements.
Horses graze on spring-fed green grass in front of the beautiful, heavily eroded red cliffs above the village of Dhakmar, Mustang, Nepal
Jam Flats and campsite. A geologist's and a rock hound's paradise. The clliffs contain evidence millions of years of earth's evolvements.
A geologist's and a rock hound's paradise.
A geologist's and a rock hound's paradise.
Muzzle Station located on the western bank of the Clarence River, is one of New Zealand's most isolated farms.
A history of glaciation and volcanism can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
A geologist's and a rock hound's paradise. The raft is dwarfed by cliffs containing millions of years of earth's evolvements.
Jam Flats. A geologist's and a rock hound's paradise. The clliffs contain evidence millions of years of earth's evolvements.
Muzzle Station located on the western bank of the Clarence River, is one of New Zealand's most isolated farms.
Joshua tree grove in Nightmare Gulch.
Camera Committee outing to Red Rock Canyon State Park, November 16-18, 2012.
Ancient cave houses in the beautiful, heavily eroded red cliffs above the village of Dhakmar, Mustang, Nepal
Quail Flats.
A geologist's and a rock hound's paradise. The raft is dwarfed by cliffs containing millions of years of earth's evolvements.
Stranded flood debris: A tangible reminder that a river can quickly become extremely dangerous during as a result of a major down-pour somewhere in the ranges.
Doing a bit of archive work, and stumbled upon a few shots from my Tesselated Pavement shoot. Thought I'd share these with you. I hope you like them.
A tessellated pavement is a rare erosional feature formed in flat-lying sedimentary rock formations that occurs on some ocean shores. It is so named because the rock has fractured into regular rectangular blocks that appear like tiles, or tessellations. The cracks (or joints) were formed when the rock fractured through the action of stress on the Earth's crust and were subsequently modified by sand and wave action.
The Tessellated Pavement at Eaglehawk Neck on the Tasman Peninsula consists of two types of formations, a pan formation, and a loaf formation.
The pan formation is a series of concave depressions in the rock, and typically forms further away from the seashore. As a result, this part of the pavement dries out more at low tide, and allows salt crystals to develop further, resulting in salt forming on the surface, and eroding the surface more quickly than at the joints. As a result, the surface of the "pans" erodes more quickly, while the joints erode more slowly, resulting in the concave pan.
The loaf formations occur on the parts of the pavement closer to the seashore, and as a result, are immersed in water for longer. These parts of the pavement do not dry out as much, reducing the level of salt crystallisation. Water carries abrasive sand, and the water is typically channelled through the joints, resulting in the joints eroding faster than the rest of the pavement, resulting in loaf-like structures protruding.
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