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Standing right on the fault in northern San Luis Obisbo county. Looking at the American Plate as the fault line runs toward the extreme left in this view.
Slickenside formed on the railroad splay of the Moab Fault. This slickenside may suggest two slip motions - a large vertical motion and a smaller horizontal motion
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Katie Frei and Houdini pick up a fault in the jumping test. They finished 34th out of 76, one of only 36 to complete all three days successfully.
It's a funny-looking fence, but still good for a HFF!
This view of nearly 300 vertical feet of the same fault zone shows how the fault strike and dip changes going from nearly north-south on the left to northeast-southwest on the left. resulting in a ridge along the face.
Apparently two plates meet here and this fault line continues to meet up with the San Andreas fault line.
Looking at a section of the fault-breccia zone just under the fault gouge illustrated in Part 9, and the reverse Douglas Fault shown in Part 6.
The rock hammer provides scale. From handle base to the top of its head, it's 11 in (28 cm) long.
In Part 8 of this set. I first introduced the concept of geo-kintsugi, another one of those coinages of mine that has built up an impressive track record of being of no interest to anyone else. But I sure do like it, and just considering its ramifications has already given me hours of fun. In fact, it's become a real idée fixe, very much like an unshakeable musical earworm theme.
The Japanese root term, kintsugi, is one of the most thought-provoking and uplifting forms of art ever devised by the human mind. It involves making a virtue out of the imperfection caused by breakage—as in broken shards of pottery. When those shattered pieces are put back together, they're cemented with a golden, glittering glue that emphasizes the cracks and the whole process of rebirth through reassembly.
As a result, the reconstituted bowl or cup or sake bottle proclaims rather than hides what it's been through. The magnificent asymmetries and added strength revealed by the golden joints make one almost want to pity any thing or person with a claim to perfection.
To me, the clastic sedimentary rock known as breccia, whether produced (as here) by the grinding action of fault motion or not, is geo-kintsugi. Perfectly good rock units, in this case the Orienta Sandstone with some Chengwatana Volcanic Group basalt too, have been torn apart into angular fragments. And then they've been glued back together, so to speak, before those particles could travel far enough to get smoothed and rounded.
In this case, the cementing matrix wasn't gold, but it still makes it clear that a lot of breakage has been mended. To quote some obscure poetaster, "Our world is one giant kintsugi factory showroom full of reconnected collectibles, and we do ourselves an injustice in limiting our sense of aesthetics to mere human works."
You'll find the other photos and descriptions of this series in my Integrative Natural History of Amnicon Falls State Park album.
This double exposure is a result of an occasional failure, I forgot to advance the film when I was preparing the previous triptych.
This was the first time I went pinholing without my tripod, and honestly, I found the whole situation uncomfortable a bit. But eventually I'm pleased with this shot, especially with the checked pattern on the foreground.
Taken with my homemade 6x6 medium format pinhole camera.
Film: Fuji Pro 160S (120 roll)
Exposure time: 3+3 sec.
Standing at a crack in the ice in Beida. It was the first time I'd ever been on a frozen lake and was terrified!
Scan of film print taken in May, 2001.
Location is in a steep eroded ravine north of the abandoned coal and sand mines at the ghost mining town site of Tesla in Corral Hollow Canyon east of Livermore, CA, USA.
Muaha, music marathon is a go, ans we are starting off with a picture of Inessa xD Look at her, being an evil bitch that backstabbed all of her friends and boyfriends. xD
-Song used for title: Black Cat by Mayday Parade-
The San Andreas Fault and Wallace Creek. The annotated photo uses three line colors to illustrate the current path of the stream (blue lines), the path of the stream if the fault was not there (green line), and the approximate position of the fault (red line).
This photo was taken at the Carrizo Plain National Monument in Central California, at the San Andreas Fault walk on the northeast side of the monument.
To the disappointment of many, 50026 suffered a traction motor flashover departing Keighley on the early afternoon train to Oxenhope on 25 May. Due to some great work by the volunteer crew, it was back up and running during the evening on the Saturday.
This forms the boundary with the Walls Peninsular where rocks on opposite sides of the fault have moved relative to each other by more than 100 kms, mainly during the Devonian and Middle Jurassic periods. Showing as a shallow depression with a boggy floor, the fault has crushed and crumpled schist on the West side against tougher granite on the East. Subsequent erosion of the schist formed the sandy bay exposing a steep cliff of granite. This is the best exposure of a shear fault in Britain.
Dropped Jill off at Specsavers for an eye test..
Not my fault that an Abbeydale Brewery outlet and Primark were just by a Costa coffee shop withing 100 yards of Specsavers!!
Beer and teashirt for under a tenner..! (Costa was an extra treat!)
#Safety notice - Beer and Motorbikes do not go well together!!#
The Wellington faultline runs along the left (east) side of the harbour and up the Hutt Valley (in the distance to the right.
- NORTHERN DEFENCES GEOLOGICAL FAULT AND JOINTS -
After the capture of Gibraltar in 1704, the British exploited the natural platforms flanking the northern approaches to the Rock using much of the geographical landscape to their military advantage. Thomas James, a Royal Artillery officer stationed on Gibraltar from 1749 to 1755, was the first member of the British garrison to publish geological observations on the Rock.
James describes ''six pieces of cannon mounted in (King’s Lines) and two mortars, with the advantage of a natural cave that is capable of securing one hundred men from shot and shells, with a smaller one for stores, and a covered communication, which you ascend through a chasm in the rock, by a broad wooden ladder of twenty-six steps to the prince’s line, and forty-four stone ones. This work was finished in one thousand seven hundred and fifteen''.
It is clear that the British were using caves and natural rock faults as part of the Northern Defences from a very early stage, but it was not until after the Great Siege building on the success of the Great Siege Galleries that the soldier artificers turned their attention to excavate new galleries and tunnels in this area. Most of these works were carried out between 1787-1790.
One of the areas excavated and which revealed a number of natural caves was the rocky outcrop around a natural fault named the Orillon which divided the 18th Century King’s and Queen’s Lines. The base of the natural fault was covered by the Inundation, an artificial lake created to obstruct landward access to Gibraltar. The Orillon batteries were part of a three-storey gun position within a natural fault in the Rock.
G. M. Goodwin gives the best account of this complex - ''This gallery leads into a fairly large chamber which, according to the 1819 report, was a second Orillon Battery. Into the walls of this emplacement, a few feet up, have been cut two wide ledges. These supported large wooden planks, which formed a platform for a gun and was called the Third Orillon Battery. A fourth Orillon Battery existed on the roof above the third, and a wooden staircase, in the recess of the rock behind, established communication between the second, third and fourth batteries. From what was the third Orillon Battery, a small gallery in the rock behind communicates with Queen's Gallery East, near the loopholed wall. In later years, the second Orillion was used as a bake house but the ovens have now been removed. Steps from the second Orillon lead down to a cave where three guns were mounted, forming the first Orillon Battery. At the back of the cave is a small shelter or magazine''.
The Queen’s Gallery, cut in 1789, was further divided into three parts; Queen's Gallery East, Queen's Gallery South West and Queen's Lines Gallery. A natural cave was found in Queen’s Gallery East next to Forbe’s Shaft. The Star Chamber was formerly a natural cave, extended in 1790. It is reached from Prince's Lines by an overhead staircase but the bottom steps are now 70 feet above the floor level. This cave was literally and organisationally at the centre of the tunnelling operations of the late 18th century by the Soldier Artificer Company (later the Royal Engineers).
During World War Two the tunnels were still being used and brick buildings were constructed within the cave and galleries. A sign on the wall of the cave records that in 1941 this cave was the King's Regiment Battalion Headquarters. Immediately to the North of the Star Chamber is another smaller cave formation called St. Patricks Chamber which in turn leads to a number of other natural caves which were named as Common’s Hall, Raleigh Gallery and 2nd and 3rd Orillon Batteries. North of St. Patrick’s Chamber further tunnelling revealed a deep fissure which was found to part of the natural fault line leading to the Orillon. Water along this fault line exited at the Orillon as a natural spring. This natural cave was named Smart’s Well Reserve.
Information sourced from www.ministryforheritage.gi/heritage-and-antiquities/north...
Beecher’s Fault, the Queens-based band cofounded by Ben Taylor ’10, returned to Boston in January 2014 to play at the Middle East Bar in Cambridge.
"Camera collector and AP columnist Tony Kemplen explains how a second hand camera's faults and shortcomings can lead to a variety of creative possibilities."
Three page article in this week's Amateur Photographer in which I talk about some of the lucky accidents and semi-planned results I've had from some of my old cameras.