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A famous locality for structural geologists outside Shamokin, Pennsylvania. The Whaleback, the low ridge in the center of the quarry, is the surface of an anticline exposed by coal mining. On the left (east) wall of the quarry one can see the anticline-syncline pair that was the subject of my first ever GigaPan (shot handheld from on the crest of the Whaleback): http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/1201/ |
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Let me tell you, sometimes I'm really grateful for the robot. The mosquitoes where I set up for this shot were deadly. I was drenched in Deet and they still swarmed me. Once I had the shot running I beat a hasty retreat for my Jeep. If it weren't such an interesting shot geologically I doubt I'd have even made it that long. Yikes! |
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The Frank Slide is a natural landslide on the northeasterly face of Turtle Mountain in southwest Alberta, Canada. On April 29, 1903, 30 million cubic meters of rock tumbled down to the valley floor, burying much of the small town of Frank, and killing 76 people.
For further information, visit the website of the Frank Slide Interpretive Center at http://www.frankslide.com/ |
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A roadcut in the median of NJ Route 23 in Passaic County near the Charlotteburg Reservior. There's an even more spectacular anticline-syncline pair exposed in the roadcut immediately behind the camera location, however it was obscured by vegetation this time of year. This GigaPan was one of the most frustrating I have taken because the partly cloudy conditions continually changed the lighting. I probably paused the robot at least a dozen times in shooting this one and I may well have spent more time waiting for the light than actually shooting images. Originally intended to have one more row at the bottom, I got so frustrated I finally cut it short. Nevertheless, I think the patience that I was able to give it largely paid off. |
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View along the axis of the Whaleback anticline in the Bear Valley open pit coal mine. The distant wall of this mine was the subject of my very first (non-robotic) GigaPan which was shot from atop the Whaleback anticline: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=1201 A little cloudiness crept into this one while I was tending to another much larger GigaPan, but I didn't feel it was worth cleaning up in Photoshop at the expense of the metadata. |
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... caught just before sunset. |
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Third of a series of three views of the spectacular folds in the Calico Hills just east of Barstow, California. |
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Second of a series of three views of the spectacular folds in the Calico Hills just east of Barstow, California. |
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First of a series of three views of the spectacular folds in the Calico Hills just east of Barstow, California. |
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Originally intended to be about twice as wide, my Gigapan Beta unit contracted the deadly Whirling Dervish/Spiral of Death disease upon completing column number 38. (Fear not, it's fixed now - a relatively low tech solution, I simply "unwound" the robot. Aaahh, the joys of Beta testing!)
Nonetheless, the resulting image is a compelling look at the Weber Sandstone which is folded into an anticline (south limb visible in the gigapan) that is cleaved by the downcutting Green River. Hogbacks of the yellow and red Park City Formation lap onto the south side of the Weber like waves breaking on a beach. The red siltstones of the Triassic Moenkopi Formation form a strike valley at the right of the image - to the west this strike valley is known as the Racetrack as it wraps around the nose of the plunging Split Mountain Anticline. |