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The beautiful carved sandstone comes alive in the evening light at Stanford. the sandstone was dug from a quarry about 20 miles south in what is now the town of Campbell, CA (adjacent to San Jose)
View of Bamiyan Valley and snowcapped Hindukush mountains through an opening in the side wall of the Buddha niche • Bamiyan, Afghanistan
This image was taken in June of 1973 (scanned from a slide)
The Buddhas of Bamiyan (also spelled Bamyan or Bamian) were two monumental standing Buddha statues carved into the side of a cliff (at an altitude of 2,500 m) in Bamiyan Valley, 230 km northwest of Kabul.
Bamiyan is located along the ancient Silk Road, and early Buddhist travelers built monasteries along the way, including carved cave dwellings in the cliffs above Bamiyan Valley.
The largest standing Buddha was located on the left side of the cliff, 53 meters tall (the niche has a height of 58 m) and was built from about 591 to 644 AD. The smaller of the standing Buddhas was 35 meters tall (the niche has a height of 38 meters) and was built from about 544 to 595 AD. There was also a small sitting Buddha located between the standing ones.
Over time many attempts were made to destroy the Buddhas, bullet holes were clearly visible in the fresco surfaces above the large Buddha's head in addition to damage to the stucco exterior caused by canon and gun fire. The larger Buddha's face was destroyed by Afghan king Abdur Rahman Shah during his fight against the rebellious Hazara population of Bamiyan.
Although the Buddhas of Bamiyan were initially tolerated by the Taliban ("Buddhists no longer live in Afghanistan..."), the ideological pressure against idolism increased, and in March of 2001 all of them were completely destroyed.
In 2003 UNESCO inscripted "the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley" on the "List of World Heritage in Danger".
Additional information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan and whc.unesco.org/en/list/208
Sculpted by the winds, the ruined walls of the abbey still portray a beauty.
God's Grandeur
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining
from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness,
like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now
not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod,
have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel,
being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness
deep down things;
And though the last lights
off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs --
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
d64853a. Strange striations in the rock, which seem to be unrelated to bedding planes or fracture lineages.
Sandstone rockface alongside Dahner Felsenpfad (Dahn Rock Path) in Dahner Felsenland (Dahn Rockland) near Dahn in the Wasgau hill range, Pfälzerwald (Palatinate Forest), Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany.
Pfälzerwald is a low mountain range in the south-west of Germany. It is a designated nature park and part of the UNESCO biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest-North Vosges. It is famous for its bunter sandstone formations and its castles and is a popular hiking destination.
We found this tour on outdooractive.com.
Pfälzerwald holiday May 2017
Sandstone Falls is the largest waterfall on the New River. It is located near Hinton, West Virginia.
Faulted sandstone from Colorado, USA (6.0 cm across at its widest).
Faults are quite common in orogenic belts. Faults are defined as fractures in rocks along which differential displacement has occurred. Dip-slip faults are those involving movement of rocks in non-horizontal directions. Strike-slip faults involve movement of rocks in horizontal directions.
The two common types of dip-slip faults are normal faults and reverse faults.
The rock shown above has a small-scale reverse fault, formed by compressional stress - the hanging wall has moved upward & the footwall has moved downward.
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These concretions are quartz sand grains cemented by calcium carbonate.
The Permo-Triassic Sydney Basin straddles Australia's central eastern coast in New South Wales. The basin covers 64,000 km2, 36,000 km2onshore and 28,000 km2offshore under water depths of up to 4,500 metres. The Sydney Basin is part of a major basin system that extends over 1,500 km from the Bowen Basin in Queensland through to the Gunnedah Basin in NSW. Onshore, the basin contains 4,500 metres of Permo-Triassic clastic sediments, while the offshore basin contains 6,000 metres of sediments. The basin overlies the Lachlan Fold Belt and Late Carboniferous volcanoclastic sediments. The basin formed during extension in the Early Permian, with half-graben infilled with the Dalwood and Talaterang Groups. Foreland loading followed with the compression of the Currarong Orogen in the Early Permian. Late Permian uplift associated with the New England foreland loading phase resulted in the formation of depocentres with the northeast Sydney Basin. These depocentres filled with pyroclastic and alluvial-paludual sediments of the Newcastle Coal Measures. In the Triassic, uplift of the offshore basin resulted in reworking of Permian sediments in fluvial environments. The basin underwent a final phase of deformation (thrusting) in the Middle Triassic. Extension and breakup in the Tasman Sea beginning in the Late Cretaceous resulted in the current structural boundaries of the basin's eastern margin.
Over 100 wells have been drilled in the onshore Sydney Basin, although no wells have yet been drilled offshore. The onshore basin contains rich coal deposits with associated natural gas and minor oil shows. The geochemistry of oil shows indicate a terrestrial source from a clay-rich environment, although not associated with the coal facies. The main trap types are anticlinal and overthrust, with some structural reactivation during Tasman Sea rifting.
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Leaderfoot Viaduct carried the Berwickshire Railway over the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders. The viaduct was opened on 16 November 1863 to connected Reston (on the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh) with St Boswells (on the Edinburgh to Carlisle "Waverley Line"), via Duns and Greenlaw.
It stands 116 feet (35 m) from the floor of the river valley. The arches, each of 43 feet (13 m) span, are of brickwork, and the abutments, piers and walls are of rustic-faced red sandstone. Some later strengthening of the abutments and piers with old rails and buttresses on the southern valley side is very obvious. The railway was severed by flooding during August 1948, after which passenger trains never ran west of Duns. Freight trains continued to run across the viaduct as far as Greenlaw until 19 July 1965.
Like many of the geological formations in and around Cathedral Valley this one doesn't have a name but to me it looks more like a temple than the Solomon's Temple feature about a mile away. www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/7029954741/
Upper Last Chance Road Wayne County, Utah.
For you that saw this already I uploaded again as a result of some interaction between Lightroom Publish and Flickr that deleted these two and scrambled all the rest of my photostream on Flickr.
This is the view of the school in Sandstone, Minnesota from the front yard of my house when I was growing up. It is no longer in use and is constructed of locally quarried sandstone--at one time a major employer of several hundred laborers--in 1901 (one half) and in 1910.
Grade schools were in the middle tier and high school in the top tier. My 2nd and 8th grade rooms are on the left.
Malta is all exactly the same colour. It's strange when you first see it but also very intriguing. The only place I had been to that used the same colour stone for pretty much every building before was Bath but this place was literally every building, every wall and every statue was the same warm colour. I guess it made the climate feel even hotter, not really needed when you go in the middle of summer!
I had to wait a while in this spot so I could get as little people in it as possible. This was the one and only route from the ship into the town so it was always busy. Like every place we went to the nearby restaurants (with free WIFI) were the places that the crew gathered with everyone chattering on good old Skype.