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Curved gouges, possibly left by faulting, in a rock outcrop in Milford, CT. These marks are hard to see far away - zoom in and pan around to see them better... the direction changes from vertical near the bottom of the outcrop to more horizontal near the top.
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Another view of the main part of the enclosed trackway at Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, CT (www.dinosaurstatepark.org
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More lovely Eubrontes here - some of the closest areas still have mucky bits of rock that represent the mud layer that overlies the trackway - it's still adhering to the print below, henc...-
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Close-up of slickensides ("chatter marks") along a fault in the Triassic New Haven formation, Simsbury, CT
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Garnets weathering out of a boulder of gneiss (Tolland County, CT). Tried to get nice morning light on the vein containing the reddish garnets - was hard with the trees, though... the leaves were almost as bad as the clouds!
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Just a few yards up the road from www.gigapan.org/gigapans/47766/ ... Hand sample pan: gigapan.org/gigapans/72884/ Thin section: gigapan.org/gigapans/72751/
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Just for fun, a pan o' the old office (or new office, technically). I hadn't tried any indoor pans to this point, so decided to give it shot. Pardon the lack of clutter, it's only my first year :)
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Roadcut of Triassic aged New Haven formation - Simsbury, CT Similar in location to Red Rock Outcrop (1), slightly different viewing angle.
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Outcrop of the Higganum Dike along Rt. 9 near Higganum, CT. This particular structure is a diabase dike intruding metamorphic rocks - this is part of the "feeder" system for some of the Mesozoic basalt flows in southern New England. We were here as part of a field trip with CCSU students in both the structural ge...
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Folded layers of the Hebron Gneiss, Gillette Castle State Park (CT). Up section from the other pans of this rock unit (gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11212, gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11171), where the original rocks were a bit less competent - so the layers folded rather than shearing. More inf...
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Outcrop of sedimentary rocks near Kodachrome Basin State Park in southeastern Utah.
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