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Picture-perfect layer cake beach. Result of post-glacier coastline rising in area with little to no tide and fortuitous geographical protection from storms. North shore of Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut. Image in several publications via Creative Commons.
West-facing view of ~100 m-wide Franklin dike on Borden Peninsula in Mala River drainage halfway between Arctic Bay and Pond Inlet, Nunavut, Canada.
718 million years ago, a plugged-up mantle plume went sideways, travelling at depth within the Earth's crust. The underground molten rock moved eastwards along the Canadian Shield's Arctic coast from a long lost source in the western Arctic Ocean.
Obstructed mantle plume events form thick horizontal sills in layered sedimentary rocks near the mantle plume. The mafic-ultramafic melt also forms vertical dike swarms that often travel in parallel. Such underground dikes traverse plastic continental crust at depth. They advance at the speed of galloping horses when slicing through granite and metamorphosed migmatite terrains.
The giant mafic-ultramafic dike shown here has travelled 2000 km to reach western Baffin Island. GSC geology maps show substantial dikes continuing for another 1000 km to Baffin Island's east end.
Shenandoah National Park, VA
A Whitetail Buck doin' a little lip curling, also known as the flehmen response. The function of this behavior is to determine reproductive status. Male individuals of a species commonly use the flehmen response as an olfactory mechanism for identifying the reproductive state of females of the same species based on pheromones in the female's urine or genitals.
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It was a nice treat to see the perfectly uniform bottom dump coal hoppers on this eastbound snaking through Sully Springs.
A young girl studies with her textbook at the Harishchandra Ghat in Varanasi, India.
Varanasi photos on my website: www.maciejdakowicz.com/cities/varanasi/
Westbound stacks meet eastbound coal loads at one of the two wooden bridges east of Hawley. It's a wonderful place to watch trains with good friends and that's exactly what we did on this Saturday evening.
Milan Kundera, four cups of really good tea, and a raisin lychee bun is how I envisioned spending my afternoon.
Instead, I had a boring textbook, two glasses of water, and leftover bao from last night... Haha, but I still love college. This is week#8
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Abandoned school in Linden, N.C. Someone is taking care of the lawn here, but the century-old structure seems to be a lost cause. The sign by the door warns firefighters not to go inside in the event of fire, to just hose the flames safely from the neatly mowed grass.
This is what the majority of west Arkansas looks like. Even though this is clearly through a windshield, I couldn't help but to get at least one picture.
52 Weeks of 2019
Week No. 15: Autobiography in Four Parts, Chapter 2
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During mid-morning on 9th November 2014, Kreka Mines 'Kriegslok' 2-10-0 33-064 storms away from the yard with empties for Sikulje mine, just before shutting off for the downhill section into the mine complex. Such were the challenges of this working, but alas daily scenes like this are no longer possible to witness.
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This photo is about 10 feet in diagonal (3m). There are many things to like about Death Valley - old tortured rocks, vast areas only seldom explored, not much vegetation to obscure the outcrops, lots of natural cuts made by erosive flash flooding. This would be a textbook example of cataclastic rock if it were more accessible. If you have 4wd and are willing to venture into some back country, keep you eyes open, and don't forget to stop and explore, there is seemingly no end to surprises for a naturalist's enjoyment.
Monitor Desert - Varan du désert
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Textbook love in the textbook style
Textbook girl with the textbook smile