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While waiting for the sun to set, we hiked on top of this limestone cliff where I captured Finding Fayette: A Ghost Town in the UP Michigan from an overlook directly across from the townsite.
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"This limestone cliff consists of vertical or near-vertical exposures of bedrock.
Like all of Michigan’s lakeshore cliffs, vegetation cover is sparse but abundant cracks and crevices combined with calcareous conditions result in greater plant diversity and coverage than on most other cliff types. "
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After visiting Kitch-iti-kipi in Palms Book State Park, we explored Fayette Historic State Park which featured a historic townsite, harbor slips, a boat launch, a beach and some hiking trails. The harbor was surrounded with some impressive west-facing limestone cliffs.
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"The vertical structure of cliffs causes constant erosion and restricts soil development to the cliff edge, cracks, ledges, and the base of the cliff where organic matter and soil particles can accumulate. The thin soils and direct exposure to wind, ice, and sun produce desiccating conditions that limit plant growth. However, cliff aspect and local seepages result in a variability of site moisture conditions. "
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The limestone formed as sediments in a tropical sea which covered most of Ireland approximately 350 million years ago.
The North River stone schoolhouse is a one-room building constructed in 1874 of coarse native limestone. It closed in 1945 and is located just north of Winterset, Iowa. Mobile photo.
Developed with Darktable 3.6.0. Color-graded in Photoshop.
Eleven years ago today, this was the power for the Proctor Roadswitch as BLE 900, 906, and 909 brought limestone empties down to Duluth on March 28, 2011.
All three of these units still work out of Proctor with the 900 now in CN paint. The orange 906 and 909 were just paired up on the T-Birds this March '22, but I didn't make it up there this time before 909 broke down and they were broke up.
When in Banff I recommend a visit and tour of this iconic "Castle of the Rockies." Amazing inside and out. With the Bow River flowing below and the river's falls just to the right in this frame and Mt. Rundle rising majestically across the valley there is much to admire around it as well.
"The hotel opened in 1888 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, as one of the earliest of Canada's grand railway hotels. The original wooden structure burnt down in 1926, the replacement structure was made up of a steel frame, clad in Rundle limestone.
The Banff Springs Hotel includes 757 guest rooms and suites spread throughout the hotel property plus 12 restaurants."
Wikipedia
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Reupload, since the previous photo mysteriously disappeared....
The limestone lake in Persberg, Sweden.
The white stuff is NOT snow and ice, it's lime :)))
(Kalksjö, Persberg)
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A throwback to summer, and a day out volunteering for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. Gordale Scar from high above, and a small area of Limestone Pavement which begs to be photographed.Single shot, handheld at f8.
Another from the spectacular evening up on Holmepark Fell. I was taken by the way the fiery clouds to the right of this windswept tree sort of complimented it's shape. The textures of the weathered Limestone Pavement on this high exposed plateau also added to nature's rich palette. The colours were spectacular after the sun set, giving the whole scene an ethereal feel.
The sun had set around 20 minutes before over Morecambe Bay with the Fylde Coast and Welsh Mountains in the far distance beyond Heysham Nuclear Power Station. You can also see the car headlights on the M6 in the middle distance near the Carnforth exit and the Bowland Fells lie to the left of the Tree..
I got some lovely images whilst up here again and I also knew my friend John Bleakley was getting the same colours and sky whilst down by the coast in Morecambe. I look forward to seeing the same sky on his shots!!
CN's empty limestone trains make for a spirited chase compared to the speed-restricted ore loads on the former DMIR in Minnesota near Kelsey.
(Antrim coast, Northern Ireland)
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
(2nd Samuel 22:47)
The location is Markyate Cell Estate (Hertfordshire). We are in the Chilterns, basically a limestone plateau. Limestone is porous and able to store huge amounts of water, often subterraneously. The River Ver runs through the middle of the image - after weeks of heavy rain, that is. But it has been dry for a while. And if there is any water, then it is not on the surface. Fuji X-Pro1.
This photomanipulation is made from a photograph of a drawing I did as a study in preparation for a painting.
Karst is a type of porous limestone; it is sort of like a rock sponge where the softer parts have erroded away, through which the springs of my area flow.
The afternoon Proctor Switch (R922) pulls Minorca limestone around the Spirit Mountain Curve on August 30, 2020. I haven't been out to shoot in September much but here's one from a couple of weeks ago. The same EMDs continue to keep holding down most of the limestone and ore assignments for CN out of Proctor as we start Q4 2020.
The lead BLE 909 still looks pretty good in the Bessemer orange paint that Proctor applied when they rebuilt the tunnel motor for their Transtar sister road 20 years ago. The 909 and 903 would be the first BLE engines assigned to Proctor by CN in 2005. It's hard to believe this orange tunnel motor has spent the last 15 years up here.
Another shot of Ingleborough seen from the White Scar Plateau just before the cloud blew in on a strong South Westerly winter wind.
Those limestone pillars along the distant bluff line are locally called Chimney Rocks and are famous landscape features to canoe or kayak under if you are floating down the Upper Iowa River. They rise about 150 feet (45 meters) above the water and are the result of weathering that eroded away softer limestone in the sheer bluffs there.
The Silver studded blue is a rare butterfly found on heathland, sand dunes and chalk/limestone grassland.
This small butterfly ( only approx. 30mm across) is found mainly in heathland where the silvery-blue wings of the males provide a marvellous sight as they fly low over the heather. The females are brown and far less conspicuous but, like the male, have distinct metallic spots on the hindwing.
The Cango Caves is one of South Africa's finest, best known, and most popular tourist caves and attracts many visitors from overseas. Although the extensive system of tunnels and chambers go on for over 4 km (2.5 mi), only about a quarter of this is open to visitors, who may proceed into the cave only in groups supervised by a guide.
Tours are conducted at regular intervals on most days—there is a "Standard Tour" which takes an hour and an "Adventure Tour" which takes an hour and a half. The "Adventure Tour" consists of crawling through narrow passages and climbing up steep rock formations guided by small lights. The caves contain halls and limestone formations (on both tours) as well as small passages on the Adventure Tour. The smallest passage that tourists will have to pass through on the Adventure Tour is just under 15 cm to exit.