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12 March 2013

Five new GigaPans from Thoroughfare Gap

Yesterday, I took five new GigaPans at Thoroughfare Gap, a water gap where Broad Run cuts through Bull Run Mountain, the eastern limb of the Blue Ridge Anticlinorium at my latitude. The rocks here are the Cambrian-aged Chilhowee Group, with bedding tilted moderately to the east during Alleghanian mountain-building in the late Paleozoic. To the west is the crystalline core of this massive regional fold, and to the east is …

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5 February 2013

After the flood

After Passage Creek receded following last week’s flood, I went down to the bridge and the floodplain to have a look around. Here’s a little bit of what I saw… Let’s start at the bridge itself. The view is to the west, and Passage Creek flows north: On the other side of the bridge, looking back in the opposite direction (that is, to the east), you can get a better …

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31 January 2013

Passage Creek in flood

After a night of torrential rain, Callan wakes to find his sole (vehicular) route to the outside world under several feet of flood water.

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17 January 2013

Cross-bedding in Owens River sediments

Today, we take a look at an outcrop of young, basically unlithified sediments east of Bishop, California, on the way out Poleta Road, toward the White Mountain Research Station’s Owens Valley Lab, where you can get a nice view of the Coyote Warp Relay Ramp. These photos were taken just west of the bridge over the Owens River. The rapidly-eroding outcrop there is on a small bluff a few meters …

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9 November 2012

Friday fold: Boomer Falls

The Friday fold is seen at one of the stops on Callan’s pre-GSA-Charlotte field trip: a small waterfall in North Carolina’s Inner Piedmont.

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30 October 2012

Passage Creek the morning after Sandy

The storm treated us well last night. We got some rain and some consistently moderate wind, but nothing insane. When I got up this morning, I checked the stream gauge online, and saw that Passage Creek was up significantly, and perhaps over the little low-water bridge that connects our house to the outside world. So I walked down there to check it out. Here’s the view from a little knoll …

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16 October 2012

Plane views: Leftovers

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11 September 2012

Colorful confluence

NASA’s Earth Observatory posted a colorful confluence image last Thursday, and it reminded me that I have a similar site of my own to share. This is on the Icefields Parkway, north of the Athabasca Glacier and Snow Dome, a hydrological drainage triple point. Here, we’re a short distance into the Arctic Ocean drainage. (West of Snow Dome, the rivers drain to the Pacific; southeast of it, they drain to …

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10 September 2012

New GigaPans: Red hole, Blue hole

Last Thursday, I shot a few GigaPans of moderately-dipping quartz sandstone layers (the Silurian-aged Massanutten Formation) in the creek a few miles from my house. All four GigaPans are at popular local swimming holes. The first three are from Red Hole, and the last one is from Blue Hole. Check them out: link link link link Explore here on the webpage, or click through to “visit” Passage Creek full screen.

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26 August 2012

Paw Paw Tunnel GigaPans

A weekend expedition to GigaPan the C&O Canal’s singular Paw Paw Tunnel results in an exposition on Devonian sedimentation, Alleghanian mountain-building, structural geology, and the incision of the Potomac River to produce entrenched meanders.

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