Happy Equinox!
It’s almost the equinox at least –in just two days it will be fall. And I’m so proud of myself that I’m actually writing something after only a month since my last post.
That’s because… I have NEWS! I just returned from a two week trip, during which I spent 6 days on the east coast, visiting and shooting some amazing geology. Too bad it rained most of my first three days, but I still managed to get some good photos anyway, including the Champlain Thrust fault in Burlington, Vermont and some gorgeous glaciofluvial potholes carved into Ordovician gneiss at Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.
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Glaciofluvial pothole in Ordovician Collinsville Gneiss, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts Berkshires (220906-15)
And on reaching Virginia, the weather cleared! I got to visit Natural Chimney’s park before driving into West Virginia –and then into Maryland –where I got to ogle the amazing syncline at Sideling Hill. From there I drove to Gettysburg, PA for a sobering few hours–and then onto Wilmington, Delaware. THERE ARE COOL ROCKS IN DELAWARE! I also saw an estuary in New Jersey and then drove to Washington, DC, where I visited Great Falls Park on the Potomac and spent the night in an airport hotel.
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Mississippian clastic rocks of the Rockwell and overlying Purslane Formations, folded into a near-upright syncline at the Sideling Hill roadcut on I-68 in Maryland (220908-110)
Then on to Florida, where I visited my mother –and saw Lake Okeechobee on the way! I’d never before seen Lake Okeechobee except on a map –and suddenly, boom! There it was outside my window!
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Aerial view of Lake Okeechobee, Florida (220910-8.9)
On the way home, I stopped in Fort Collins to visit my daughter –and took advantage of one morning where I bombed over to Scotts Bluff National Monument for a lovely hike among some even lovelier rocks, all of Oligocene to Miocene age.
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Cliffs of flat-lying Oligocene White River Group and overlying Oligocene-Miocene Arikaree Group overlooking the Great Plains, Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska (220916-37)
So here’s the best part –actually the worst, but it will make much better reading than the itinerary I just listed. I shot some 5 zillion photos of which I selected about 100 to add to my website. During much of the time in Florida and then Colorado, I processed and captions these images–which is a lot of work, actually, especially if you’re trying to be specific about a rock’s age and formation name and you need to look it up. Then on the plane ride home I transferred all my files from my laptop to my external drive and LOST ALL THE METADATA! So I spent much of yesterday recreating the captions and re-processing everything. But now, I’m happy to say that there are 101 new photos on the site.
Yay! phew!
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