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My grandma told me not to cut my hair, just to keep it like this. But... nobody knows how to braid my hair like this except for you, grandma!
Wrangell - St. Elias National Park, Alaska
Geologic Guide to Wrangell–Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska by Gary R. Winkler
pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1616/P1616-508.pdf -
The rugged mountain ridges surrounding Kennicott
and Root Glaciers and the canyons of the Chitistone and
Nizina Rivers expose in nearly continuous outcrops the most
characteristic rocks of Wrangellia (fig. 17). The distinctive
maroon-weathering slopes of the Nikolai Greenstone contrast
conspicuously with the light-gray-weathering cliffs and ledges
of the overlying Chitistone and Nizina Limestones. The color
contrast can be seen easily from a distance, and by the late
1800’s, the contact zone had gained the attention of prospec
tors and geologists, who discovered that copper lodes were
concentrated in its proximity. By 1900, the fabulous Bonanza
lode east of Kennicott Glacier had been located. By 1905,
probably every linear foot of the contact zone in the southern
Wrangell Mountains had been scrutinized, where it was acces
sible, and all major known copper deposits of the region had
been staked.
The Nikolai Greenstone (fig. 14) consists of Triassic
basalt flows whose aggregate thickness is nearly 10,000 ft.
The greenstone formed a vast volcanic field; today’s rem
nants cover large tracts on both north and south flanks of
the Wrangell Mountains and the south flank of the eastern
Alaska Range, as well as adjacent parts of Canada at least as
far as the Kluane Lake region. Correlative basalts are known
as far west as the Alaska Peninsula and at least as far east as
the Chilkat Peninsula near Haines, Alaska. Large areas of
Triassic basalt on the Queen Charlotte and Vancouver Islands
in British Columbia, known as the Karmutsen Formation,
probably are offset continuations of the same volcanic field,
although displaced by post-Triassic movement along the
Denali, Queen Charlotte, or other major transcurrent fault
systems. The Nikolai Greenstone was extruded during a 7–8
million year interval onto a mostly subaerial volcanic plateau;
near the perimeters of its outcrops, however, submarine flows
have been identified. Volumetric estimates for the Nikolai
Greenstone exceed a staggering 60,000 mi3, enough to bury
the entire State of Oregon with a quarter mile of basalt! The
Nikolai Greenstone is overlain by as much as 3,600 ft of
Upper Triassic limestone and dolomite in the area between
the Kennicott Glacier and the Chitistone River canyon, but
the carbonate rocks thin rapidly westward, eastward, and
northward. The lower part of the Chitistone Limestone in the
McCarthy area contains stromatolites, relicts of evaporites,
and algal-mat chips, which collectively indicate deposition
in a tidal-flat sabkha environment. Sabkhas are widespread
in the Middle East today. The upper part of the Chitistone
Limestone, and the overlying Nizina Limestone, were depos
ited in progressively deepening seawater, culminating, by
latest Triassic time, in deposition of spiculite, muddy lime-
stone, and shale of the McCarthy Formation. The McCarthy
Formation makes up the thin-bedded, dull-brown-weathering,
slope-forming units above the cliff- and ledge-forming Triassic
limestones throughout the region. Between Kennicott and
Nizina Glaciers, an overlying Jurassic sedimentary succession
more than 5,200 ft thick forms the higher ridges and consists
primarily of marine sandstone, shale, and conglomerate.
Locally, the succession includes spiculite and minor coquina;
some beds contain abundant ammonites and mollusks that
substantiate ages ranging from Early to Late Jurassic. Thin
lava flows and beds of volcanic ash in the Middle and Upper
Jurassic parts of the succession, as well as abundant primary
volcanic detritus in the clastic rocks, indicate arc magmatism
from about 170 to 150 m.y. ago in Wrangellia (the so-called
Chitina arc). Lenses of conglomerate and disconformities
within the upper part of the succession indicate episodic uplift
and subsidence—tectonism that probably is an early manifes
tation of the docking of Wrangellia.
Within the Wrangell–Saint Elias region, this complete
Jurassic sequence occurs only in the McCarthy area; its pres
ence indicates the deepest parts of a depositional basin whose
hydraulic regime may have influenced the genesis of Ken
necott-type copper deposits.
In a few widely scattered localities, remnants of fossilif
erous marine siltstone, shale, and limestone of Middle Triassic
age, as much as 300 ft thick, intervene between the Nikolai
Greenstone and underlying rocks. These strata contain the
distinctive age-diagnostic pelecypod, Daonella, and provide
biostratigraphic timing of the onset of basaltic volcanism rep
resented by the overlying Nikolai Greenstone.
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Thanks to the magic of Kipper, I managed to put two braids in E's hair at once.
Of course they were both long gone by the end of her nap.
On our Family Reunion/Ensenada Christmas Cruise, one of our bunch decided she would get her hair braided by a young teen on the streets of Ensenada, Mexico. The job took longer than expected with a near miss of our departure time. It seemed like a good idea at the time...
Beautiful details inside the Wang Laboratories Inc. Wang 700 Advanced Programmable Calculator; braided electrical wire.
Two of my best friends are going to Japan for the next couple of weeks. To let you know about how much of a geek I am here's what I asked them to bring back for me: Cowboy Bebop paraphernalia, authentic cosplay cat ears (tail optional), Hi-Chew, school girl socks with glue! Yes, I'm a nerd. Luckily, so are my friends. Hairstyle inspired by .tara.
My mother is very skilled at making "bobbin" or "pillow" lace. This is one of her pillows showing an intricate design. She also makes a more free-form kind of lace made with a needle and thread, which is an even older form and the one I'm also partial to (see this photo for more on that). This kind, however, makes a heck of a conversation piece. :)
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In the past, this type of lace was most often commissioned by royalty to be used on clothing, but today short strips of varying widths can also be made into bookmarks or framed as purely decorative pieces.
I wish I had this handy to take some more deliberate shots with my good camera, but I don't live nearby and this is all I have at the moment.
Kristen Lock used 3 packs of Toyokalon synthetic hair to achieve these cornrow tree braids. What is great about using synthetic hair is that it is so inexpensive! You can pay a great deal of money on human hair which comes out looking BEAUTIFUL, or you can save some money and use synthetic hair. The synthetic hair will tangle quicker then the human hair but so depending on what is more important to you you will either do synthetic hair or human hair.