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Former mining site with an interesting funga, flora and fauna, west of Tetange - in the southern part of Luxembourg. |
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I reshot the Emmons Glacier at a slightly different exposure in hopes of bringing out some of the glacial features that might have been overexposed in the larger Rainier Sunrise GigaPan: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/31687/ |
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Rock City is a local park near Minneapolis, Kansas where dozens of meter-scale concretions of Dakota Sandstone have remained resistant to weathering. Berti and Edi (the rock gnomes) had a field day! See if you can find and snapshot them in all of their hiding places. |
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Seastacks and coastal terraces beside the Pacific Coast Highway between Bodega Head and Jenner, California.
To the best of my knowledge this GigaPan is the world's first full gigapixel anaglyph image. In order to view the image in 3D you'll need a pair of red/blue anaglyph glasses (you may have a pair in your collection of National Geographic Magazines). Warning: although I've done what I could to minimize it, if you view this GigaPan at full zoom the image separation in some regions of this image may be more that your eyes can fully adjust to - zoom out a bit and save yourself the headache. For more information about anaglyph images see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_image If you enjoyed this anaglyph GigaPan you may also enjoy my other two anaglyph GigaPans: 1) Saline River Valley - http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=3527 2) Castle Rock Badlands - http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=12345 And another one: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=18692 I've also created lots of other non-anaglyph images: http://www.gigapan.org/viewProfile.php?userid=1252 Stitching Info (Left Camera): GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.3510 (Windows) Panorama size: 1155 megapixels (64730 x 17849 pixels) Input images: 341 (31 columns by 11 rows) Field of view: 106.6 degrees wide by 29.4 degrees high (top=12.0, bottom=-17.4) Settings: Keep projected images Original image properties: Camera make: Canon Camera model: Canon PowerShot S5 IS Image size: 3264x2448 (8.0 megapixels) Capture time: 2008-12-20 11:55:28 - 2008-12-20 12:15:14 Aperture: f/4 Exposure time: 0.0015625 ISO: 80 Focal length (35mm equiv.): 435.8 mm Digital zoom: off White balance: Fixed Exposure mode: Manual Horizontal overlap: 35.7 to 42.0 percent Vertical overlap: 35.5 to 40.8 percent Computer stats: 3069.98 MB RAM, 2 CPUs Total time 3:13:59 (0:34 per picture) Alignment: 55:28, Projection: 16:31, Blending: 2:01:58 Stitching Notes (Right Camera): GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.3510 (Windows) Panorama size: 1153 megapixels (64497 x 17892 pixels) Input images: 341 (31 columns by 11 rows) Field of view: 82.4 degrees wide by 22.9 degrees high (top=7.4, bottom=-15.5) Settings: Keep projected images Original image properties: Camera make: Canon Camera model: Canon PowerShot S5 IS Image size: 3264x2448 (8.0 megapixels) Capture time: 2008-12-20 11:56:00 - 2008-12-20 12:15:46 Aperture: f/4 Exposure time: 0.0015625 ISO: 80 Focal length (35mm equiv.): 435.8 mm Digital zoom: off White balance: Fixed Exposure mode: Manual Horizontal overlap: 35.5 to 40.2 percent Vertical overlap: 35.7 to 42.7 percent Computer stats: 3069.98 MB RAM, 2 CPUs Total time 2:53:38 (0:30 per picture) Alignment: 35:54, Projection: 16:42, Blending: 2:01:01 You can see a video of the dueling GigaPan units used to capture this anaglyph here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di0ug9x9ur8 Anaglyph creation completed in Photoshop CS3 following the general method detailed at: http://www.scec.org/geowall/makeanaglyph.html Placement in Google Earth is a compromise between the satellite imagery and the digital elevation model which are not currently well registered. |
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Say good morning to a beautiful cross section through the Columbia River Flood Basalts in Sun Lakes State Park, Washington. |
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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. |
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A close-up of the cliff on Tracy Island (http://tinyurl.com/m3f8ap). It may be black marl according to "I'm no geologist" cmlbath. |
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Limestone Bluff Cedar-Pine Forest at Lone Rock Point, Vermont – Dunham dolostone (Cambrian, light color) has been thrust to the west as much as 80 km (50 miles) and rests here on top of much younger Iberville shale (Ordovician, black). The contrasting appearance of the two rock types, and the ca. 50 million year difference in their ages, contribute to the fame of this exposure. Three commercial tour boats slowed for a look while I was there (there is a better exposure around the point to the right).
The calcareous dolostone supports a forest of northern white cedar. Common on rocky headlands like this, the forest type is rare elsewhere in Vermont. A snapshot of this GigaPan shows the location of another GigaPan (http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30375) showing the interior of the bluff forest. Some technical notes are in a comment. |
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Normal fault in the Fort Hays member of the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, south of Stockton, Kansas. These chalk beds were originally deposited in the shallow Western Interior Seaway about 80 million years ago. The thick beds of the Fort Hays member are extensively bioturbated. Faulting is post-Cretaceous and pre-Quaternary. |
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Great geology, biology, and weather. Who could ask for anything more? |