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Gallery: Columnar Jointing

Columnar Jointing

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GigaPans that illustrate columnar jointing.

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Ron Schott
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November 17, 2012
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  1. A glorious morning for GigaPanning in the Range of Light. Explorer's Challenge: Find the floatplane. [Update 9/17/12: There's still another to find!]

  2. Devils Tower National Monumnet

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  3. 360 Degree View from the top of Heimaklutter in Himaey, Vestman Islands, Iceland. This Island (with a population of about 5000) is the site of 1973 eruption that buried several houses. This is also famous for being the only place on Earth where humans fought nature's fury and won the battle (well, depends on how one ...

  4. A view of Coal Canyon and Gold Run Creek Waterfall, a canyon off Table Mountain near Oroville, CA.

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  5. Fossil Falls is in there, too.

  6. This GigaPan was taken on Compton Peak in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. The view of the camera is looking roughly west back up the hill towards the peak. These columns are in Catoctin metabasalt and are arguably the best examples of columnar jointing in Virginia. Image made as part of the MAGIC project (Mid-A...

  7. The Owens Gorge contains spectacular exposures of the 760 Ka Bishop Tuff. The Bishop Tuff itself is a classic exmple of a welded tuff, with undeformed pumice clasts towards the top of the exposure and squished pumice clasts that have turned into fiamme towards the bottom of the exposure. Exposures of equivalent, b...

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  10. ... along the shores of Kama Bay.

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