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In 2008, Geoff's Trains visited Sandstone for a three day charter. One morning session was with two NGG16 Garratts, numbers 113 and 153,
Opposite to where the Siq terminates, in a second ravine-like but broader valley, the finest monument at Petra, and perhaps in all Jordan, strikes the eye of the traveller. The monument, originally, a mausoleum/temple, was built at the beginning of the 1st Century AD, and is known as “al Khazneh”, the Treasury. The magnificent building, carved out of a sandstone rock face, is well preserved, considering its age and site, and still exhibiting its delicate chiseled work and all the freshness and beauty of its coloring. It has two rows of six columns over one another, with statues between, with capitals and sculptured pediments, the upper one of which is divided by a little round temple crowned with an urn.
Al Khazneh
1st century AD.
Petra, Jordan
Coyote Buttes North, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona. This is one of the entrances to the Wave, as viewed from Top Rock.
The largest waterfall on the New River, Sandstone Falls spans the river where it is 1500 feet wide. Divided by a series of islands, the river drops 10 to 25 feet.
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In 2008, Geoff's Trains visited Sandstone for a three day charter. One morning session was with two NGG16 Garratts, numbers 113 and 153,
Clouds pass over the high red sandstone buttes of Professor Valley, near Moab Utah. Copyright 2013 - Thorpeland Photography
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In 2008, Geoff's Trains visited Sandstone for a three day charter. One morning session was with two NGG16 Garratts, numbers 113 and 153,
(photo provided by Ljubomir Risteski)
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This beautiful shot depicts an old quarry in Black Hand Gorge State Nature Preserve, near Toboso, Ohio. Quartzose sandstone was formerly quarried here, principally as a source of silica for making glass in nearby Newark, Ohio. For much of the year, these old quarries are partly filled with water. At times, water has receded sufficiently to allow walking on the old quarry floors (leaf-covered now).
The rocks here are thin-bedded Byer Sandstone over massive Black Hand Sandstone. Both are Lower Mississippian units. The Black Hand Sandstone was the quarrying target. The Byer is a relatively shallow marine unit - it has fossils such as brachiopods and crinoids. The Black Hand Sandstone is currently interpreted as an incised valley fill deposit - it consists of sandstone, pebbly sandstone, minor conglomeratic sandstone, and minor conglomerate.
Im in Dunsdale hollow. A place when the trees have their crown of leaves in place,is damp and dark. Today it is wild for another reason, it is snowy and slippery, which is really slowing me down
Facit Mine taps into the Haslingden series of sandstone deposits, a quite hard rock, which was used for paving flags, machine beds, construction and later hardcore and aggregate for motorway construction
Some quarries in the area are now reopened with small scale production of flag stones and other products. Despite the abundance of quarries in the area : Facit, Britannia, Lands, Abraham etc; mine workings are very common – as the best stone is often found under thousands of tons of overburden and inferior stone – known as “ feight “, so adits were sunk and the stone excavated from pillar and stall workings
Tramways remains that carried the stone down to the valley floor cross ever hill and in the late 19th century , the rail line from Accrington to Rochdale was opened – allowing ease of transport .
These days the quarries seem to be used for off-road vehicles and motorbikes, most if not all will be totally unaware of what lurks below.
Aztec Sandstone. The formation is an eolian sandstone formed from dunes deposited during Lower Jurassic time, about 200 million years ago. Conditions at the time were similar to the Arabian desert today. The Aztec is thought to be equivalent to the Navajo Sandstone found farther east. BLM Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Clark Co., Nevada.
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The Bowman brothers leased this land in 1845 and took out a pastoral lease in 1847. The property then became a stopping point for bullock teams travelling along the Wakefield River from the Burra copper mines in 1850 on their way to Port Wakefield. This traffic ceased in 1857. The Bowman brothers purchased sections of land here in the 1850s, when land was first surveyed, in order to build up a large freehold estate in addition to the leased pastoral lands. In 1860 the property was put up for sale and purchased by Samuel Sleep who purchased thousands of bricks to build a major residence on the property but after the droughts of 1863-64 he sold the bricks and he defaulted on his mortgage. This mortgage was held by Edmund Bowman and the property reverted to solely to Edmund Bowman and not his brothers in 1864 as their partnership dissolved at that time with the other brothers keeping the Crystal Brook run and Edmund keeping the Upper and Lower Wakefield runs. In 1864/65 Edmund built a substantial house on the property facing the Wakefield River but above the flood level and he named the property Werocata at that stage. Before then it had been known as Six Mile Station. Edmund used the short lived architectural firm of Grainger, Naish and Worlsey to design the unusual gable ended house. There were already a couple of cottages of sheds on the property. Edmund Bowman was also a director of the Union Bank and a member of the Central Road Boards. Edmund only enjoyed two years on the Werocata property which he visited from his Enfield house called Barton Vale because he drowned on nearby Pareora estate in August 1866 which he also owned. Edmund had married in 1854 which was when he had built Barton Vale. So when he died in 1866 he left a young family of three sons, Edmund Junior, Charles William and Hubert and three daughters, Clarissa, Alice and Jessie.( Another child had died shortly after birth). Edmund’s properties and shares were kept in trust until Edmund junior reached the age of 21 years in 1876.The properties were managed by Bowman relatives with Werocata being managed by one of Edmund senior brothers. The estate had grown into a 25,000-acre freehold property with a further 10,000 acres freehold on nearby Pareora estate.
Edmund junior was suddenly a very wealthy man in 1876 and began a major building spree with the erection of the extravagant Martindale Hall near Mintaro from 1879. It is probably at this time, around 1883/84 that Edmund had the two Italianate style classical rooms added to the front of Werocata and the garden extended and a large lake created in front of the house by a dam across the Wakefield River. He also had a overseers residence and new stone piggeries and the big woolshed erected on Werocata in 1881. Just a couple of years later Edmund junior was in massive debt after a series of droughts and high interests and he sold Werocata in 1886 with 15,000 acres to Stephen Ralli and the rest to other farmers. Ralli developed the property for thoroughbred horses and a Shropshire Sheep stud which was known throughout Australia. Coursing events and fox hunting were carried out on the property in Ralli’s time and beyond. Ralli had an early SA car from 1908 with the number plate “23”.Ralli in turn sold the property to a Balaklava publican named George Robinson who held the property for many years with his son, parliamentarian Albert Robinson. Robinson purchased Werocata in 1907 as a 4,000-acre property as the rest of the Werocata estate had been broken up for closer settlement at the time Stephen Ralli put it up for sale. The property has had various owners since the days of the Robinson family who solid it in 1936 to Alexander Wilson. The current owners have recently done a major restoration of the house and the garden. Apart from the house the crenulated water tank and some of the stables and store sheds have been heritage listed on a state level. The crenulated water tank near the overseer’s house was probably erected in 1881 when that house was built. There is no public access to Werocata and the owners like total privacy.
Sandstone in Annot, in the up country of Nice (French Riviera, Maritim Alps). 2007
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The most striking characteristic of this deeply dissected rocky mountain range is the extraordinary variety of terrain within the smallest area. Unique amongst the Central European Uplands are the constant changes between plains, ravines, table mountains and rocky regions with undeveloped areas of forest. This diversity is ecologically significant. The variety of different locations, each with its own conditions in terms of soil and microclimate, has produced an enormous richness of species. The numbers of ferns and mosses alone is unmatched by any other of the German central uplands.
The occurrence of Elbe sandstones and hence the Elbe Sandstone Mountains themselves is related to widespread deposition by a former sea in the Upper Cretaceous epoch. On the Saxon side of the border the term "Elbe Valley Cretaceous" (Elbtalkreide) is used, referring to a region stretching from Meißen-Oberau in the northwest through Dresden and Pirna into Saxon Switzerland, and which is formed by sandstones, planers and other rocks as well as basal conglomerates (Grundschottern or Basalkonglomerate) of older origin. Several erosion relics from Reinhardtsgrimma through Dippoldiswalde and the Tharandt Forest to Siebenlehn form isolated examples south of Dresden. They are mainly characterised by sandstones.
Huge boulders including an unusual "toadstool" formation are strewn amid shale hills beneath a towering sandstone mesa.
Darlington Range at Canungra SEQLD AU...Smooth-barked Apple Gum perching on Woogaroo Subgroup sandstone
On a frigid morning a couple years back in Capitol Reef National Park, I explored along the banks of the Fremont river taking in the flowing water and colorful sandstone colors of this other worldly place. At one point I shot this image, noting how the water cut under the sandstone cliff the way one might expect water to do with ice. The sandstone hovers just an inch or two above the water as it heads into a bend, sheared off from countless years of relentless effort by the river. The colorful sandstone reflects across the surface of the water, while hints of reflected sky creep in from the lower left turbulence. Originally a 3:2 aspect capture that included some bright trees on the left side of frame, upon further reflection I found them to be distracting and that the best part of this scene was this 5:4 crop here narrowing the focus to just the water and the cliffs. I do find myself succumbing to temptation to include too much in the frame pretty often, and as this image shows sometimes it’s better to be simple.
A weather-worn channel through a sandstone outcrop at Habberley Valley, Near Bewdley, Worcestershire
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One of a set of images taken by Geoff Cooke when he hosted the Geoff's Trains group at the Stars of Sandstone Festival in April 2019. Copyright Geoff Cooke. Please do not use without permission.
Sadly, this little town, like so many others across the nation, has seen better days. It was once a thriving resort for vacationers seeking both natural beauty and the purported healing properties of the myriad local hot springs. Numerous spas were built, but like its namesake in Arkansas, its popularity waned as people more and more began to adopt more scientific based methods to treat ailments and/or maintain health. It also didn't help that a fire ravaged the great spas built late in the 19th century. The little town is, however, doing relatively well compared with many other cities its size (about 3700), as it certainly has a lot going for it. For one, it lies within the Black Hills, for another, Wind Cave National Park is nearby, as is Custer State Park (don't let its "mere" designation as a state park fool you, it's a wonderful area, full of beauty--mountains, rugged granite spires, forests, prairie, and amazing amounts of wildlife). Then, there is the Mammoth Site--where an ancient sinkhole trapped many of the eponymous creatures, along with many others. There is an active exploration of the site by paleontologists, which can be viewed by visitors. Finally, there is the town itself which presents an attractive appearance, owing in part to the fact that most of the buildings are made from the same material, Lakota Sandstone. The large building in the foreground is the Evans Hotel--now a residential retirement center. On top of the hill is the old VA center, the main building of which is quite beautiful (the VA has been debating its future for some time now). The stream that runs through town and can barely be glimpsed in the lower left, is fed by many hot springs, keeping its temperature at over 80 degrees even in wintertime. I hope to revisit the place someday, but who knows. There are so many places I want to visit.
Late in the day, high above the Green River, the low angle of the light accentuates sandstone detail.
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