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An exposure of the Mather Gorge Formation, downstream of the "emergency exit" trail off Billy Goat Trail loop A, and upstream of the first sandy beach. Immediately upstream of this outcrop is a prominent belt of amphibolite, and there are large angular amphibolite boudin blocks embedded in this strange rock. ...
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When I set this one up I was aiming to get a nice closeup of a shear zone. What I ended up with was a test of the Gigapan unit under extreme weather conditions. You can almost pick out the individual moment where the snow flurries suddenly turned into a whiteout. In hindsight, I'm amazed that the thing stitched toge...
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Exposed on the northern bank of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near the downstream end of "Widewater" (upstream of the Old Anglers Inn access point), these rocks are the result of ancient mountain-building processes. These rocks, the Mather Gorge Formation, were originally deposited as layers of sand and mud i...
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Exposed on the northern bank of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near the downstream end of "Widewater" (upstream of the Old Anglers Inn access point), this antiform is the result of ancient mountain-building processes. A fold that goes up in the middle is called an "antiform," and if there is stratigr...
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Looking downstream on the Potomac River from the southern end of Billy Goat Trail, loop A, in Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Maryland. The other side of the river is Virginia. On the hill is Madeira School, and the confluence with Difficult Run is directly across the river in the narrow valley. Roc...
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Second stop on the NAGT NewTools pre-Workshop field trip. The snow was pleasant at this point; a few minutes later we experienced whiteout conditions.
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Looking up the road, we can actually peer into the layering of this rock and see some of the structure. And the bushes/flowers growing in the cracks. (For scale, of course :) ) Different views at gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=5783 and gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=5745
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Nifty outcrop of metamorphic rocks. See also gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=5745
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Garnets weathering out of a gneiss boulder (Tolland County, CT). Same boulder as share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11125, but different angle (and lighting, apparently - less issue with trees, more issue with overexposure, perhaps.)
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This is an amphibolite grade metamorphic rock out of one of the ophiolites in the Klamath Mountains in northern California. It's really a very brilliant green due to the chromium content - I'm not sure the camera or lighting fully captures that.
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