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Sandstone cliffs on the edge of Sydney Harbour.
8 Images stitched in CS6. Each image 30sec @f20, with Lee Big Stopper.
Standing nearly 150' tall, this isolated ridge of yellowish white sandstone is home to a unique double arch. The larger arch is nearly 100' in diameter.
The formation is named for the first full-time editor of National Geographic Magazine and, later, president of the National Geographic Society, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966).
Just south of Kodachrome Basin State Park, Grosvenor Arch is deservedly one of the most popular features in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
While traveling through southern Utah to visit National Parks, this became of interest to us, because we previously lived near the Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro Station in Bethesda, Maryland.
I composed this image while hiking in Utah's Snow Valley Sate Park, near St. George, Utah. I was attempting to highlight the sculpting of the sandstone, and also its varied colouration.
The majority of sedimentary rocks in Snow Canyon State Park are Navajo Sandstone. As the rocks of the Navajo get progressively younger, their colors change and the cliffs and domes of "petrified" sand dunes range from orange-red, to orange, to yellow, to cream, to white. A wide array of fabrics and textures enhance the appearance of the sandstone. Time, erosion, and other forces have battered it into intensely broken and fractured zones, molded it into smooth rounded hummocks, and etched patterns resembling the skin of an alligator onto its surfaces.
Nature's artistry at it's finest. Wonderful eroded sandstone on the Northumberland coast. It's like finding buried treasure - literally, as returning a few days later to this scene it was pretty much buried in sand .....and foot prints - the tides and wind doing their thing as well as the local populace of humans and dogs. One can only wonder at the forces of nature over centuries or millenia that have created such wonderful natural carvings. It does make you think what else may be under the sand!
These sandstone beds are exposed on the escarpment or frontslope of a hogback of the Lance Formation near Gooseberry Creek in Hot Springs County, Wyoming. The beds dip back away from The camera. These fluvial (stream deposited) sandstones are Late Cretaceous to earliest Paleocene in age. The thickness patterns of the formation in the Bighorn Basin indicates that it was deposited as the Rocky Mountain foreland basin was partitioned into smaller basins during the onset of the Laramide Orogeny.
Reference:
Thomas Finn
Subsurface Stratigraphic Cross Sections Showing Correlation of Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Rocks in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana
Chapter 6 - Petroleum Systems and Geologic Assessment of Oil and Gas in the Bighorn Basin Province, Wyoming and Montana
U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS–69–V
069/dds-069-v/REPORTS/69_V_CH_6.pdf
Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE Nos. 6044 and 5946 overpower a one-car Potash local along the Colorado River after departing Potash, Utah, on March 4, 2012. The towering sandstone cliffs loom over the train as it approaches the entrance to Bootlegger Canyon on this scenic branch near Moab.
Lying on the stunning Firth of Clyde coast on the West of Scotland is this Sandstone Bay, it may have been a cool and breezy day but well worth stopping for a few pictures on my journey.
This is Little Sand Coulee Road headed to the southwest. Across the dry country Jim Bridger lead several wagon trains in to Montana Territory. It avoided the Bozeman Trail, but had considerably less water. The distant mountains are the Beartooths.
So, after yesterday's short trip, we can now afford some snow and cold again. And so we are back in the forest above Děčín in Bohemian Switzerland.
As you can see, we have now penetrated a little further into the realm of the Ice Queen. The needles of the trees around us are all coated in a beautiful layer of ice, very reminiscent of sugar icing.
It's a beautiful sight.
So, nach dem kurzen Ausflug von gestern können wir uns jetzt wieder etwas Schnee und Kälte leisten. Und so sind wir zurück im Wald oberhalb von Děčín in der Böhmischen Schweiz.
Wie ihr seht sind wir inzwischen ein wenig weiter ins Reich der Eiskönigin vorgedrungen. Die Nadeln der Bäume um uns herum sind alle mit einer wunderschönen Eisschicht ummandelt, die sehr an Zuckerguß erinnert.
Es ist ein wunderschöner Anblick.
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Sandstone Falls was created by the powerful flow of the New river eroding the soft conglomerate rock layer that lies below the hard sandstone layer from which the falls gets its name.
A journey to Sandstone Falls provides a rare riverside scenic drive, the beautiful falls, and the dramatic interface of the New River's transformation from a broad mountain stream into a raging whitewater gorge in its final descent through the Appalachian Mountains.
Trying out some different comps. I'm not sure if I'll keep it. I do like that little cascade and kind of like the flow of the comp though.
Thanks for looking. Chip
During my four-day loss of internet service, I decided I had enough images to start another collection, Shooting Sandstone.
From San Francisco to San Diego, I have shot sandstone, cliffs, rocks, formations, caves, whatever.
Going through the images and picking the best was something I have been thinking about for a while now. Thanks to AT&T, I finally had time.
The weather wasn't allowing for a beautiful sunset this day but it allowed a gorgeous view onto the sandstone structure of the Saxon Switzerland in Saxony / Germany. This image is taken from within the Schrammsteine.
I could see myself on the verandah, sitting back on that bench after a hard day in the garden, tending the hedge and feeding the birds.
This composition possibility caught my eye because of the jagged line between light and darkness and, of course, because of the gorgeous color.
The Navajo name for Lower Antelope Canyon is Hasdeztwazi or “Spiral Rock Arches.” This slot canyon has been created over many thousands of years by the relentless forces of water and wind, slowly carving and sculpting the sandstone into forms, textures, and shapes.
The views in Lower Antelope Canyon change constantly as the sun moves across the sky, filtering lights softly across the stone walls. These ever-moving sun angles bounce light back and forth across the narrow canyon’s walls, creating a dazzling display of color, light, and shadow. (Description from lowerantelope.com)
Before returning to flower photos, one more Arches National Park photo. This park impressed me more than normal, and we should have spent more time there.
Some of the heritage buildings at the University of Guelph are made of sandstone quarried in Ontario. This is a side entrance of one of these buildings, covered in vines that have grown there for decades. The university started at an agricultural college in 1874, Do any alumni know which building this is? Texture applied to various colors of sepia. Featured winner in challenge of Sin City, October 2019.
An abstract from Achnahaird Beach, wonderful red sandstone sand with white patterns! Fireside seems Ok and is an Arctic Monkeys title
Took a dive into the archives this morning looking for something a little different. While hiking in Capitol Reef National Park five years ago we found this section of sandstone with some interesting patterns. This represents about a square foot of that section.
Canyonlands National Park, Utah
I was on my way to somewhere else nearby, but I just had to stop to photograph these sandstone cliffs glowing in the low sunset light.
It won't be long until photo-streams will be full of spring images, mine included. So, I thought I'd better upload a few more autumn images before then!
If you have been following along here for a while, you are well aware that I love to use long exposures to accentuate swirling water normally found in splash pools below a waterfall or cascade. This particular pool of water is usually a haven for some great swirl action and I always check it out whenever I'm shooting at Sandstone Falls.
An interesting "fun" rock found in the Nowood gravel beds. This cobble was found in the terrace gravels along the Nowood River Road between Bonanza and Tensleep Wyoming. The white sandstone has some red hematite cemented sandstone nodules that tend to erode out faster than the host leaving holes in the sandstone. Some of the holes are still filled with the red nodules. To some imaginative people, the holes look like “blood filled bullet holes” in the sandstone. Since the cobble is out of place, its age is unknown but it is similar to sandstones seen in the Lower Cretaceous outcrops found in the nearby hills.
Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada
This photograph is about permanence and ephemerality. The light as the sun was setting emphasized the physical presence of the sandstone, a substance that seems unchanging yet is not. Over time it slowly -- almost imperceptibly -- undergoes erosion and carving by wind and sea.
NGG13 No.49 & NGG16 No.113 work a freight consist through Pandoras Farm, Sandstone Estates. 19th May 2005.
I've been spending quite a bit of time, over the past months, looking closely at the weathered outcrops of rock around the coasts of Scotland. In this short series, I've posted a few of the photos I've taken of some of the 'designs' that caught my eye on sedimentary rocks. I hope you enjoy looking at them, in all their graininess.