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Granite erosion-control blocks along the Galveston, Texas, Seawall are pounded by the Gulf of Mexico surf on a summer morning.
A closer look at just one of the huge granite tors that mark the summit of Beinn Mheadhoin. After being battered by many Scottish winters the weatherd rock looks like layer upon layer.
Beinn Mheadhoin (pronounced Bane Vee-arrn) meaning 'The Middle Hill' stands at 1182 meters (3878 feet) and is my 14th Munro. The summit plateau is strewn with some spectacular granite rocky tors and lies at the remote heart of the Cairngorms. The cycle in up Glen Derry was 6.7 miles, with a further 3.7 hike to reach the summit. With the return, the days sees me covering 21 miles Bike & Hike.
The Bakersfield-Glennville Road (Woody Road) cuts trough and outcrop of granodiorite on a ridge in the Sierra Nevada Foothills east of Woody, Kern County, California; Bakersfield-Glennville;
In the old part of Porto along the river (here the Rua da Reboleira in Ribeira) the frame of the houses is made from solid granite. Some of the buildings, such as that with the Gothic arches, go back to the 14th century. A number of Porto's buildings were damaged in the massive 18th century earthquake. Not these.
A beautiful set of falls and very convenient to shoot. My GPS said we found it and I didn't see a thing. So, I turned into a gas station to ask directions. The lady said- it's right here on the left- you can park at the end of our lot. She was right about 25 yards to a lookout!
A range of mountains in the Mojave Preserve eroded into rounded shapes. This shot was taken from the roadside viewpoint on Kelbaker Road.
Happy Slider Sunday!
This granite knob lies in the Sweewater Rocks in the Granite Mountains near Jeffery City, Wyoming. Geologically, this granite knob is located in the Archean-age Sweetwater subprovince of the Wyoming Craton. These rocks represent a time when Wyoming was a separate microcontinent called the Wyoming Craton which existed 500 million years before the North American Continent formed. The Sweetwater subprovince has an east-west tectonic grain which is caused by a shear zone between the Sweetwater and Southern Accredited Terrane subprovinces along the southern edge of the Wyoming microcontinent.
A side view of the 17th century gatehouse to the Lanhydrock estate in Cornwall. Magmatic intrusion materials, such as granite, form the geological skeleton of the Cornish topography. Since prehistoric times, granite has been used whenever the mark of permanence was required: we were here!
A granite jetty or, more-properly, groyne, reaches into the Gulf of Mexico from the Galveston Island, Texas, beach.
From our walk last Sunday up to Easdon Tor. That granite stack is called Figgie Daniel (see previous upload: flic.kr/p/2jGrrxr ).
Completed in January 1945 using Rubislaw (Aberdeen) granite. Architect Leo Durnin, with “Spirit of the Wind” figure designed by Thomas Huxley-Jones.
Silver Mines Recreational Area
State Highway D
Madison County Missouri
Photo taken on October 3, 2020
Granite is great. It’s hard, weathers through countless winters of freezing and thawing. It does break down, eventually but slowly. Lines laying across the rocky surface tells us when the next break will occur. The individual shapes and sizes of the rocks are like fluffy clouds, they remind us of something, maybe a snake sneaking through the water, a seal sunning on the beach in the cold north. One looks like it would make a perfect seat. I could sit here watch the dragonflies fizz by, the minnows erratic meandering the the pools of water the myriad of colors in the trees that’s changing into fall.
Sheer granite cliffs carved by ancient glaciers line Sam Ford Fjord on northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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This colossal granite dome faces Walker Arm on Sam Ford Fjord, northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
At Easter, we stayed at our regular place near Greenlands, west of Stanthorpe. Managed to take a photo before the rain squall came through.
Not for nothing is New Hampshire called the Granite State! All the rock we saw [and we saw plenty] was indeed all granite.
Granite and amphibolite can be seen in ths outcrop of crystalline basement rock in Shoshone Canyon west of Cody Wyoming. The metamorphic and Igneous rocks exposed here date to around 2.6 billion years ago. Geologist call that time period during the Precambrian the Archean Eon. These rocks represent a time when Wyoming was a separate microcontinent called the Wyoming Craton which existed 500 million years before the North American Continent formed.