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Pillow Basalts 1 by Jen Piatek

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Jen Piatek Jen Piatek
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0.49 Gigapixels
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Date added
March 09, 2009
Date taken
March 07, 2009
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GigaPan w/Canon SD850

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First in a series of pans of exposures of the Talcott basalt (early Jurassic age, ~200 million years old) in Meriden, CT

Pillow basalts form when lava is erupted underneath water (typically oceans, but in this case a briny lake). The water quickly cools the outside of the lava, but the inside is still pushing outwards (like blowing up a balloon, almost).

Each one of the round-ish structures here is one of these pillows.

See also:
www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=18647
www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=18539
www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=18532
www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=18522
www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=18518

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  1. Ron Schott

    Ron Schott (March 09, 2009, 03:51PM )

    Makes me sleepy just looking at them. Gorgeous rocks, Jen!

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GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.3865 (Macintosh)
Panorama size: 491 megapixels (31570 x 15574 pixels)
Input images: 176 (16 columns by 11 rows)
Field of view: 141.5 degrees wide by 69.8 degrees high (top=47.5, bottom=-22.3)
Settings:
All default settings
Original image properties:
Camera make: Canon
Camera model: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Image size: 3264x2448 (8.0 megapixels)
Capture time: 2009-03-07 10:17:46 - 2009-03-07 10:32:27
Aperture: f/5.5
Exposure time: 0.003125
ISO: 100
Focal length (35mm equiv.): 140.4 mm
Digital zoom: off
White balance: Fixed
Exposure mode: Automatic
Horizontal overlap: 44.4 to 59.9 percent
Vertical overlap: 41.9 to 48.5 percent
Computer stats: 2560 MB RAM, 2 CPUs
Total time 2:31:40 (0:51 per picture)
Alignment: 14:59, Projection: 10:33, Blending: 2:06:08