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Andesitic dike, New Zealand
Meads Wall, an andesite dike intruding lavas on Mt. Ruapehu, New Zealand (180114-15)
Download ImageHydrothermal spring and deposits, New Zealand
Hydrothermal spring and deposits, Waiotapu geothermal area, New Zealand. The white color is sinter (silica) and orange from antimony precipitation. (180108-85)
Download ImageHoodoo and breaking wave, New Zealand
Hoodoo, eroded into volcanic rock and breaking wave, New Zealand. (180111-16)
Download ImageActive volcanic crater, New Zealand
Active crater with lake, White Island, an andesite volcano in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Crater Walls are mostly pyroclastic deposits. (180110-120)
Download ImageVolcanic Island, New Zealand
White Island, an active andesite volcano in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Note steam rising from crater. (180110-84)
Download ImageBasalt columns and seastack, New Zealand
Miocene Basalt columns and seastack, Murawei Beach, New Zealand
Download ImageDesert wash, Death Valley, CA
Desert wash and sunset, Death Valley National Park, California (171216-56f)
Download Imagefault surface, chattermarks, slickenlines
Fault surface with horizontal slickenlines and chattermarks suggestive of right-lateral, strike-slip, Mojave Desert, California. (171215-42)
Download ImageMeander loop, New Jersey
Aerial view of meander loop in river, Newark, New Jersey. Through time, erosion will cut through the narrow divide to cause abandonment of the outer loop and form an oxbow lake. (171218-76)
Download ImageColumnar-jointed basalt, Oregon
Colonnade in basalt of the Deschutes Formation. Cove Palisades State Park, Oregon. (171007-43)
Download ImageDinosaur footprint-Cretaceous Ornithopod (square)
Cretaceous Dinosaur Ornithopod tracks. Penny for scale. Dakota Formation, Colorado. (171123-30)
Download ImageDinosaur tracks-Cretaceous Ornithopods
Cretaceous Dinosaur Ornithopod tracks. Image is approximately 1.5 meters across. Dakota Formation, Colorado. (171123-26)
Download ImageWanapum Basalt and scablands, Washington
Wanapum Basalt (Columbia River Basalt Group) and the Twin Sisters, a prominent scablands from the MIssoula Floods near Wallula Gap, Washington. Photo shows both colonnade (outcrop on right and bottom of Twin Sisterns) and entablature (top of Twin Sisters) (150702-83)
Download ImageHand samples of metamorphic rocks
From left to right (in order of increasing grade) slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss. (Met-01)
Download ImageColonnade in basalt flow, Oregon
Looking upward at the colonnade in a basalt flow, near Warm Springs, Oregon –shows both cross-sectional and longitudinal views. (171007-40)
Download ImageOverlapping debris flows, Mojave Desert
Overlapping debris flows as indicated by different shades of brown from different generations of desert varnish, Death Valley National Park, California (Image ID# WE-36)
Download ImageAngular Unconformity, Grand Canyon
Angular Unconformity, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (SrU-07)
Download ImageGreat unconformity, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Great unconformity –a nonconformity in this photo. Sequence of Cambrian sandstone (the ledge across the middle of the photo), shale (the overlying slopes) and limestone (the upper cliffs) deposited on top the Vishnu Schist in the Grand Canyon, Arizona. (Image ID# SrU-02)
Download ImageThrust fault and fold
Thrust fault and folded pyroclastic rock, SE Oregon. Note that displacement dies upward along the fault (SrF-31).
Download ImageRight-lateral faults
Strike-slip (right-lateral)
faults offsetting granitic dike, N. Wisconsin. (SrF-36)
