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Detail of the facade of a building on William Street (the Guardian Vaults buildling). Sandstone's a popular facade on the older buildings in Melbourne's CBD.
Soft winter lighting, rock shapes and shadows that fell into place for me in a familiar but mysterious way. I knew that I had the shot, although I didn't know why. Analysis comes later; at the time it just felt right.
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Rock specimen (dry surface) from a turbidite channel complex, in which the channel is in the order of 100 m in width, and at least 50 m in height. The rock contain numerous quartz and other pebbles, that are scattered over the rock matrix. Possibly a grain flow or fluidized flow deposit.
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Depending on the time of day and lighting, these glyphs can be very difficult to see and to photograph. Many of petroglyphs in this area have had the sandstone wall smoothed prior to being pecked.
Interesting striped sedimentary sandstone. I'm pretty sure this is sandstone, you can clearly see the grains in the edge view . Not sure how it's got the stripes.
Sandstone Wall, Twin Arches Loop Trail, Pickett State Park and Forest, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Tennessee
Seven Hollows Trail has many fabulous sandstone glades, all covered in moss and lichens.
Petit Jean State Park, Conway County, Arkansas
Hand-hewn sandstone blocks. The Hero of Wellington is made of these, as are an awful lot of buildings around Sydney.
The following outcrops are located along the Grassy Cove Segment of the Cumberland Trail along Black Mountain, just southeast of Crab Orchard, Tennessee.
The valley or cove floor is actually a limestone sink, with these huge boulders lining the tops of the surrounding mountains. You will find rugged sandstone, bejeweled with pure white quartzite pebbles, and a maze of convoluted, fluted corridors, strange, stack-stoned chimney rocks and pillars, unexpected windows and passageways winding in glorious confusion.
Take the 78 East to Split Mountain Road, take the Fish Creek Wash dirt road (Anza Borrego Desert State Park) south to south east until you get to the entrance to Sandstone Canyon.
Lowell and Diana Lindsay, in their book "The Anza-Borrego Desert Region: A Guide to the State Park and Adjacent Areas," note that Sanstone Canyon "has long been considered one of the most impressive canyons of the park." A walk through the canyon emerges on a vista of the surrounding badlands.
Fossil vertebrates 4 or 5 million years old have been discovered in and around Sandstone Canyon including extinct, rabbit-like mammals such as Hypolagus (pre-hare) and Pewelagus. From the same period have been discovered the weathered footprints tentatively identified as belonging to the North America camelopine Megatylopus. Deposits in and around Sandstone Canyon offer one of the richest concentrations of Lower Pliocene (3.6 - 5.4 MYA) fossil vertebrates in North America.
Still raining lightly when I visited the falls. I am glad I made the trip, to get these shots while a lot of water was passing over the falls. This is a view from the river bank and almost level with the water above the falls.
Sandstone cliff in woodland a short distance from the east bank of the River South Esk, near Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland.
Sand stone cliffs drop 50 - 100 feet down the Sculptured Beach and lead into sea stacks at the bottom