9 August 2017
A suite of new 3D models
Posted by Callan Bentley
Today, for your edification and amusement, I offer five new 3D models that I’ve assembled over the past few weeks from photo sets collected in the field and then fed into Agisoft Photoscan. Enjoy zooming in and out, spinning and turning them.
Orbicular granite from the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico:
Fault-bend fold in Grinnell Formation quartzite and argillite, Glacier National Park, Montana:
Glaciated bedding-plane outcrop of Mesoproterozoic stromatolites, Helena Formation, Glacier National Park, Montana:
Vesicular ventifact, Blackwaterfoot, Arran, Scotland:
Bedding and foliation in Dalradian metaturbidites, Lochranza, Arran, Scotland:
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.