Showing posts with label Angular unconformity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angular unconformity. Show all posts
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Home from Back of Beyond: Images of a Harsh Country, Part Two

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The photo above encompasses so much of what captivates me about the southwestern United States. A trail formed from a natural weakness in ...
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Monday, July 11, 2016

Unusual Unconformity on California's Lost Coast

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Will someone save the unconformity? It's going to gone soon! Well, okay, there's not much to be done about it, being that the ex...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Dreams of Summer and Southwest Travels: Grand Stories Exposed in a Canyon

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No one place on Earth can ever tell the whole story of the Earth. But there are lots of places that tell part of the story. That's the...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

It's Not What's There in Grand Canyon That's Incredible, It's What's Missing

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Our trip last week started in Las Vegas, Nevada, where we paid a visit to an exposure of the "Great Unconformity" which is also...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Where the Sierra Nevada Rises From the Sea: Half Moon Bay

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There was a time when the seas lapped against the Sierra Nevada foothills. Around 50 million years ago, the Great Valley was a shallow se...
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Friday, September 6, 2013

Into the Great Unknown: Crossing the Great Unconformity Again; But Which One?

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Every day is new. Every day the Canyon is different... I look back over the notes of my journey down into the Great Unknown , the Colora...
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