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Geological contact between the older crystalline rocks and the overlying sandstone.
The blue at the end is there to make the panorama large enough for the site. |
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Giving macros another try with the new Stitcher 0.4.3510. Much better results, so far... |
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A rest stop slong I-40 just east of Tucson, AZ. |
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Carved from the Precambrian Harney Peak Granite by Gutzon Borglum and a host of stonemasons, the Mount Rushmore memorial portrays the likenesses of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. |
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A roadcut through Columbia River Flood Basalts that were erupted into a shallow body of water. The basaltic lava interacted with the water to form both pillows and palagonite. Edi and Berti did a little rockclimbing here, too. |
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The huge limestone arch of Durdle Door lies to the West (centre-right) and Man O'War Cove to the East (left), with a single yacht - June Dawn of Pwllheli - anchored in the bay. This spectacular area is known as the Jurassic Coastline. |
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How could I pass up a GigaPan of columns as photogenic as these? |
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What does the inside of a hot spring deposit look like? Berti and Edi know! |
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The Sound of Silence trailhead is the jumping off point for the first major geologic mapping project of the Fort Hays State University Geology Summer Field Camp. For more information about our field camp see: http://hays.outcrop.org/GSCI454/
About four-fifths of the way through shooting this image I filled my camera's 4Gb memory card. After pausing for about twenty minutes to download the images to my computer I was able to resume the shot where I left off. The result is my largest GigaPan yet at 3.1 gigapixels. At the time of posting it's the tenth largest on the Gigapan.org site. |
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The Tertiary Ogallala Formation is best known as the host rock for one of the largest freshwater aquifers on Earth. In Ellis County, Kansas the Ogallala is exposed at the surface and forms resistant hill-capping exposures such as the ones seen in this Gigapan.
My largest Gigapan yet at 2.45 gigapixels, this monster is stitched from 726 individual photos and took over 40 minutes to shoot. If the Gigapan robot were able to interrupt the shooting sequence and allow me to move the camera arbitrartily to capture transient phenomena (and then resume the panorama where I interrupted it) I'd have been able to capture a pair of wild turkeys in flight and a herd of cattle that wandered into the field. Not that there's a lack of things to see in this one, but being able to capture transient phenomena such as these would make this image significantly more interesting and educational. |