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5 March 2013
Documenting doomed outcrops: Scientists’ Cliffs, Maryland
The community of Scientists’ Cliffs in Maryland is a private community that happens to sit on some of the most amazing fossil exposures in the Coastal Plain. The strata in question are part of the Miocene-aged (~14 Ma) Calvert Formation. The Scientists’ Cliffs outcrops are better than the more famous outcrops at Calvert Cliffs State Park, mainly because of easier access. At the park, you have to hike in a …
26 February 2013
Using M.A.G.I.C. to zoom in on trace fossils
Yesterday, I worked on my sabbatical project, the Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection (M.A.G.I.C.). Whether I go outside on a given day to shoot GigaPans of local geology depends on multiple factors: (a) How’s the weather? (b) Do I have to watch Baxter? (c) Can I bring Baxter with me? (d) How are the lighting conditions? Yesterday everything lined up: nanny on duty, moderate temps, and high diffuse clouds that permitted a …
25 July 2011
And now, a word from our sponsors
[gigapan id=”82542″] All my Rockies students would agree. Just sayin’.
19 May 2011
Check out my bookshelf
A fresh gigapan, of my office bookshelf. There’s some rocks there: [gigapan id=”77590″] Find anything neat?