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Rock & Mineral MacroGigaPans > Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite TS-20 by Robin Rohrback-Schiavone

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Robin Rohrback-Schiavone Robin Rohrback-Schiavone
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Date added
July 11, 2012
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July 11, 2012
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Carbonate mudstone with calcitic dropstone from the lower member of the Ghaub Formation in Namibia. This rock records the onset of Marinoan glaciation, represented by dropstones in the Ghaub Formation.

This sample is from the Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite, and comes courtesy of Paul Hoffman, Harvard University; Eugene Domack, Hamilton College; and Timothy Fox, Hamilton College.
For more information on the Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite, visit www.snowballearth.org/samples.html Will open in a new tab or window.
Image made as part of the MAGIC project (Mid-Atlantic Geo-Imagery Collection) using Northern Virginia Community College's gigamacro rig, as seen here:
gigamacro.com/gigapixel-macro-imaging-system Will open in a new tab or window/

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GigaPan Stitch version 2.0.0501 (Windows)
Panorama size: 281 megapixels (18272 x 15408 pixels)
Input images: 63 (7 columns by 9 rows)
Field of view: 8.2 degrees wide by 6.9 degrees high (top=-17.7, bottom=-24.6)
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Vignette correction on: c1=-0.117 c2=-0.00114
All default settings
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Image size: 4752x3168 (15.1 megapixels)
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Horizontal overlap: 55.5 to 59.3 percent
Vertical overlap: 50.5 to 54.6 percent
Computer stats: 4000.13 MB RAM, 4 CPUs
Total time 6:43 (6.4 seconds per picture)
Alignment: 29 seconds, Projection: 1:49, Blending: 4:26
(Preview finished in 3:05)