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18 March 2010
Transect Trip 18: Judy Gap
Fault-duplicated double section of the (Silurian aged) erosion-resistant Tuscarora Sandstone:
Transect Trip 15: penultimate plume
Nice one! … In spite of the highway department graffiti… Swiss Army Knife for scale!
Transect Trip 14: ripple marks
Where are some ripple marks in the Hampshire Formation. Cell phone service is a lot more localized here in West Virginia, so we’ll see how many posts I manage today…
17 March 2010
Live geoblogging: assessment
What do you think, folks? Do you like seeing field photos as I take them? Should I continue the Transect Trip instant photoblog series tomorrow as we traverse the Valley & Ridge?
Transect Trip 13: a better plume!
Okay… That last plumose structure was nothing compared to this beauty…
Transect Trip 12: plume du jour
Spectacular plumose structure on rusty joint surface Weverton Formation:
Transect Trip 11: bedding/cleavage
Bedding and cleavage intersect in the Weverton Fm. Bedding = Cambrian Cleavage = late Paleozoic (Alleghanian)
Transect Trip 10: en echelon tension gashes
Gorgeous back-rotated quartz-filled tension gashes in the Antietam Fm. Sinistral sense of shear: