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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.
Locality: roadside talus along 27 Road, southeast of the town of Powderhorn, Colorado, USA (vicinity of 38° 14' 32.52" North, 107° 04' 02.63" West)
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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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Saw this walking down Sausage Roll Street in Glasgow. Liked the way the warm sunshine lit up the old sandstone building.
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.
In the absence of glass, the intricate sandstone balconies not only allow for breezes to enter the building but also give privacy.
The gail force winds and the huge seas we had last week have exposed many more new areas of sandstone at Seagreens. Heaven, I'm in heaven...
John Horbury Hunt was a prominent 19th century architect in NSW. He was born in New Brunswick in Canada in 1838 and began his training as an architect in 1856 in Boston. In 1863 during the height of the American Civil War he decided to move to India and whilst he stopped in Sydney on the way he met the Colonial Architect of NSW James Barnet who convinced Hunt to stay in NSW. After working with Edmund Blacket another prominent NSW architect he set up his own practice in 1869. His practice flourished and many of his buildigns around NSW showed his use of bricks (when stone was more popular) and Canadian wooden shingles. He eschewed symmetry and liked patterns in brick work even to create three dimensional effects, mixed materials, gables, garrets and fanciful shapes for his buildings. Like all private architects of his day he had to seek commissions and hobnob with wealthy residents to ensure a good flow of work. He also obtained a number of commissions from the Anglican Church in NSW including the cathedrals in Armidale, Newcastle and Grafton and Anglican churches in Dapto, Denman, and Branxton etc. He did a lot of work around Sydney, Armidale and the Illawarra region.
In Armidale he worked for the wealthy pastoral family of the Whites. In Armidale he built Booloominbah, now part of the University of New England and Trevena, now the Vice Chancellor’s residence. In the Illawarra Shoalhaven district he obtained commissions from the Osborne family who owned most of Kangaroo valley. He not only designed their homestead Barrengarry but also the Anglican Church (1871) and Rectory (1871) in the town which they owned - Kangaroo Valley. John Horbury Hunt also designed the Kangaroo Valley School for the Osbornes too in 1878. When the Osbornes decided to retire from their estate they commissioned John Horbury Hunt to build a mansion near Moss Vale which they called Hamilton House (1890). Some time after their death it became Tudor House Preparatory School for boys. Hunt also got the commission to build the Presbyterian Church in nearby Nowra- St Andrews Presbyterian Church in 1875. Hunt also designed the Catholic Church in Bodalla for Mrs Mort although the Mort family were generally Anglican.
John Horbury Hunt’s wife died in 1895 and he was diagnosed with Bright’s disease. His practice collapsed and john Horbury Hunt died a pauper in 1904.
Triangular sandstone sarsen by the church at Beauchamp Roding in Essex.
Legend tells that when the church was being built in the valley, the villagers wanted to use this stone which was at the top of a hill. They dragged the stone down, but next morning it was on the hilltop again. So they dragged it down again, but next morning it was back at the top of the hill. They tried once more, but when it again returned to the top of the hill. they gave up and built the church on the hilltop next to the stone.
Pines and Sandstone. Zion National Park, Utah. April 3, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Sunlit pine trees against shaded sandstone, Zion National Park, Utah.
This was probably one of my first photographs on my recent trip to Zion National Park (and other Utah locations) in early April. After arriving in the general area of the park in the middle of the afternoon, we decided that we should see the "high country" along the Mt. Carmel Highway that heads up and east from the main Zion Canyon and Virgin River area. While almost everything in Zion is fascinating, I find this higher elevation terrain especially intriguing - with its combination of swirling and curving sandstone shapes, carved waterways, and various kinds of vegetation. At first it was hard for me to understand how I might photograph this country, but the more I looked the more I at least started to "see" it.
Of course, I like to photograph trees like these anywhere! Although when I stopped I first photographed some sandstone formations to the left of these trees, I had noticed the trees and thought about the possibility of shooting them with this backlight against the shaded sandstone cliffs, with their red tones altered a bit by the reflected blue light from the open sky.
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