Geological Oddity, Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado by Ron Schott

Canon Powershot S5 IS

GigaPan Beta Robot

When I first saw this sort of feature outcropping in a roadcut in Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado I thought they resesmbled dinosaur footprints. However, since these are found in Precambrian metamorphic rocks that is clearly not the case. In fact, this is probably some sort of metamorphosed concretion(?). This GigaPan is a macro, though I fear that I failed to include any useful scale.

This is one of a group of older sets of images that I shot for GigaPans but previously failed to stitch. This one was shot during the first FOFS conference, held in Estes Park, Colorado.

Wider views of this outcrop can be seen in these two GigaPans I shot the same day:
1) Big Thompson Canyon - North Wall - www.gigapan.org/gigapans/5433/
2) Folded Schists, Big Thompson Canyon - www.gigapan.org/gigapans/5437/