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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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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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This view of the Palisade region of California's high sierra is taken from the foothills of the Inyo/white mountains to the east. |
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Taken from atop a hill of Frontier Sandstone this view encompasses the western end of the south limb of the Split Mountain Anticline in Dinosaur National Monument. The valley in the foreground is that of Red Wash. Much of the geology in this field of view is part of 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/
Originally intended to be a much larger shot, I gave up after cloudiness interfered with the exposure (banding at right side of image). |
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