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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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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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Conglomerates and sandstones of the Eocene Carmelo Formation were deposited by sediment gravity flows, in relatively deep water, in a submarine canyon probably comparable to the present-day Monterey Canyon.
Updated / edited version of an older panorama. |
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What a perfect evening for Gigapanning! Good light (no clouds), no wind, and a beautiful view (for Kansas). I think I managed to miss shooting any of the boats on the lake, but if you look at the water you can see the wake of one of them as it approaches the camera - it gives you a sense of the time it takes for the pan to progress. Got lucky to catch the geese - it'd be nice if the Gigapan robot had a pause option that allowed one to move to a grid square (like Last Panorama does) so one could catch transient phenomena that the normal progress of the pan might miss. |
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See if you can interpret its depositional enviroment. |
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One of the more "interesting" areas of the FHSU Geology Summer Field Camp Red Wash mapping project in Dinosaur National Monument. Something unusual is going on with the geology in this image. Beyond that I cannot be more specific. ;-) For more information about our field camp see: http://hays.outcrop.org/GSCI454/
My original attempt to stitch this GigaPan ended up with a "twisted" stitch. Following advice on the forum that this might be the result of too much overlap in the original images I trimmed them and ended up with a much better result. I also used the Photoshop RAW format export option so that I could go in and crop out some of the jagged edges (something I haven't done previously with images too large to open as a TIFF file in Photoshop). This upload also marks the first time I've uploaded from a format other than TIFF. I'm pretty pleased with the results so far, though the real satisfaction will only be realized once I've lined it all up properly in Google Earth as a 360 degree embed... |
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One of two pans of Horseshoe Bend, a lovely incised meander near Page, Arizona (just east of Glen Canyon Dam).
Erosion by the Colorado River cut down through the layers of sedimentary rock and created the deep gorge (approx. 1000 feet deep here). [We also took another pan from the same point (http://gigapan.org/gigapans/33155/) with a different camera.] |
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Shot this at Turtle Rock climbing area near St. George. It was snowing in Salt Lake City, but down here it was warm and sunny. The cottonwoods hadn't even lost their leaves yet and it was mid November. The climb up the prominent prow on the right is a classic 5.11b/12a called Banana Dance. We all put in a lot of time hanging on it and having fun. |
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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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There is a wayside rest with restrooms and a parking area on top of the bluff with stairs down to a beach at the site. Its location at the head of Lake St. Croix, the broad, slow area of the river that stretches from Stillwater to Prescott, Wisconsin, where the St. Croix joins the Mississippi River, is undeveloped and features many islands and tall sandstone bluffs on either side of the river. |