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  1. Roadcut in shales south of Wilson Lake, Kansas. Can you identify it's proper place in the stratigraphy (www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/189/09_meso.html#CRET Will open in a new tab or window) of the region?

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  2. This is a limestone quarry, currently run by the Highway Materials, Inc. Formerly known as Corson's quarry, it is claimed to the oldest continuously run quarry in the USA, and perhaps the oldest continuosly run indistrial operation in the USA. Nearby quarries existed from William Penn times. Correspondence exist betwe...

  3. Distant cliffs of Fort Hays Limestone. Use red/blue glasses to view the anaglyph 3D effect. Created from two 12x3 Gigapan images shot about 1 foot apart. Alignment, cropping, and anaglyph shading done in Photoshop.

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  4. The Keyser Limestone is the lowest formation of the late Silurian to early Devonian Helderburg Group. It records stable platform deposits which accumulated in the quiet period between the Taconian and Acadian orogenies. This sample was collected and contributed by Dr. Michael Mengason.

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  5. This is the second of three GigaPans I took on the 21st of December 2008 of the Twelve Apostles. The first picture was taken just out of view in the right center of the picture where the elevated walkway goes out of sight. Since I couldn't put it any more concisely, here is a description from www.visitvictoria.com Will open in a new tab or window ...

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  6. North side of Calvert Street, east side of the Duke Ellington Bridge over Rock Creek. An interesting example of weathering in the urban environment.

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  7. A lovely exposure (though rather harshly lit) of the contact between two Cambro-Ordovician limestones in the Shenandoah Valley. Geologic map of the site is here: ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngm-bin/pdp/zui_viewer.pl?id=14868 Will open in a new tab or window The same contact can be seen in the vicinity of Strasburg, Virginia, here: www.gigapan.com/gi...

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  8. The contact between the metasedimentary Fauquier Formation (uppermost marble member) and the overlying metavolcanic Catoctin Formation is exposed in an abandoned quarry north of Aldie, Virginia, across Goose Creek from Lime Kiln Road. The nature of this contact (is it conformable? does it show primary or tectonic struc...

  9. A recumbent fold is exposed in the walls of an abandoned limestone quarry next to the Shenandoah River in Page County, Virginia.

  10. A recumbent fold is exposed in the walls of an abandoned limestone quarry next to the Shenandoah River in Page County, Virginia.

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