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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.
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In mid afternoon, Spooky canyon is so poorly illuminated and dark that exposures are long and dull brown and orange. But around this corner my friend noticed a wall high up in the canyon was catching some incredible reflected light. It was the only photo from the day that I liked. ©2013 Christian Madsen
Nearby are petroglyphs created by indigenous Australians. I suspect this particular pattern is natural geology, with a few added lines by humans.
One of my expert contacts suggested "this looks like a sandstone dyke, formed where unconsolidated sand was injected into a fracture cutting across the bedding. This is usually caused by an earthquake which creates the fracture and causes liquefaction of the sediment, allowing it to flow into the fracture."
Who says there's no straight lines in nature? Previously I'd seen long white lines in the rainforest in northern New South Wales, perfectly straight. But these were roots from the strangler fig.
No doubt this photographed area was significant to the indigenous people. They would have some mystical explanation for how this rocky pattern was formed.
The rock is Hawkesbury sandstone. These rock platforms give a clue to the massive sedimentary deposits laid down here in the Triassic. This was formerly a river delta. Of enormous size, similar to the Nile and Ganges deltas of today.
The moss (top right) is Campylopus bicolor.
sandstone weathered by spray and wind on sea cliffs in Royal National Park, Sydney NSW Australia
Canon AE1, Kodachrome 100, summer 1984
Locality: Near Payson, Arizona, Coconino Sandstone Formation, Permian in age.
Clastic Sedimentary Rock
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.
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This abandoned quarry is very close to my parents house in Switzerland. Last time I was here was on a class field trip in 3rd grade. I didn't remember exactly what it looks like, and was worried that I remember it way bigger than it actually is. But to my surprise the quarry is pretty big and we spend a couple hours walking around in it.
I brought a couple candles with me for dramatic lighting... The greenish light is actually sunlight shining through leaves at one of the entrances.
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.
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Thanjavur - Tamil Nadu - South India.
Brihadishwara Temple (10th century). Tamil Nadu's most awesome Chola monument. The entrance gopuram were buit with famous Sandstone. Dedicated to Shiva.Â
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.
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(centimeter scale)
This sample is from a gravel bar along a creek at Chatham, Ohio. The rock itself is fairly coarse sandstone, almost certainly of Paleozoic age, with well-defined horizontal laminations. The stratification is noticeably disrupted, near the lower left, by a burrow (trace fossil).
Trace fossils are any indirect evidence of ancient life. They refer to features in rocks that do not represent parts of the body of a once-living organism. Traces include footprints, tracks, trails, burrows, borings, and bitemarks. Body fossils provide information about the morphology of ancient organisms, while trace fossils provide information about the behavior of ancient life forms. Interpreting trace fossils and determination of the identity of a trace maker can be straightforward (for example, a dinosaur footprint represents walking behavior) or not. Sediments that have trace fossils are said to be bioturbated. Burrowed textures in sedimentary rocks are referred to as bioturbation. Trace fossils have scientific names assigned to them, in the same style & manner as living organisms or body fossils.
Provenance: modern fluvial clast derived from Pleistocene glacial drift
Locality: gravel bar on the western side of the town of Chatham, northern Licking County, east-central Ohio, USA
Fossil sandstone of church wall at Frisby on the Wreake in Leicestershire. Middle Lias sandstone with lamp-shells - possibly Terebratulids
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.
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Sandstone rocks waiting for the art department to colour up for the forthcoming Marvel Rise Of The Guardians movie.
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.
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Some of the most beautiful wheeling I've done was done in the sandstone hills of a little area just east of Livingston, KY. The sandstone landscape is not only other-worldly but if you misjudge and smack a differential or the transfer case, you just crush the ground below you. Taken in 2008. Well, when it' s not too dry, anyway.
2010 update - It is long-since been very restricted due to over-use and abuse and all you see in this shot is covered in 2-3 foot tall grasses. You can travel only the main road now, but it actually is still a very challenging path itself in many places for several miles.