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Overturned Eocene sandstone, Santa Barbara, CA
Overturned Eocene Coldwater Sandstone and Santa Barbara Coastal Plain, California (221130-4)
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Tofoni (honeycomb weathering) in sandstone (vertical)
Honeycomb weathering in sandstone, California (221029-97)
Download ImageGraded beds in Cretaceous turbidites, CA
Graded beds in Cretaceous turbidites of the Great Valley Group, Big Sur Highway, California.(221029-88)
Download ImageStream emptying into the Pacific Ocean, CA
Mouth of Little Sur River, Big Sur Coast, California (221029-41)
Download ImageErosion of headland, CA (vertical)
Erosion of headland into seastacks, California Big Sur coast (221029-38)
Download ImageHeadlands and surf, CA (vertical)
Headlands and surf along California’s Big Sur HIghway (221029-27)
Download ImageGraded turbidite beds, California
Graded bed in sandstone of submarine fan turbidites of the Cretaceous Great Valley Group, California. These beds are right-side up (220622-11.1028)
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Cretaceous turbidite deposits of a submarine fan of the Great Valley Group, California. Rocks are right-side up. (220622-9.1028)
Download ImageCambrian limestone and dolomite, SE Cal
Cambrian limestone and dolomite, of the Nopah Range, SE California-Nevada (220422-33)
Download ImageOverlapping dacite domes, Black Butte, CA
Black Butte Holocene-age dacite domes, on the west side of Mt. Shasta in the Cascade Range, California (211123-8)
Download Imagelow water levels at Lake Shasta, California
Houseboats and low water levels at Lake Shasta, California, USA (211123-1)
Download ImageCuesta and parallel drainages, Wyoming
Aerial view of parallel streams on the sloping backside of a cuesta, southern Wyoming. (221216-58)
Download ImageParallel drainages on flanks of a cuesta, Wyoming
Aerial view of parallel streams on the sloping backside of a cuesta, southern Wyoming. (221216-50)
Download ImageOregon Cascade Stratovolcanoes (vertical)
Aerial view northward of the central and northern Oregon Cascade Range Volcanoes, from South Sister in the right foreground to Mt. Jefferson to Mt. Hood. Mt. Adams can be faintly seen in the far background. Note the recently erupted lava flow on the east flank of South Sister. (221216-19)
Download ImageOregon Cascade Stratovolcanoes (vertical)
Aerial view northward of the central and northern Oregon Cascade Range Volcanoes, from South Sister in the right foreground to Mt. Jefferson to Mt. Hood. Mt. Adams can be faintly seen in the far background. Note the recently erupted lava flows on the flanks of South Sister. (221216-16)
Download ImageOregon Cascade Volcanoes
Aerial view northward of the central and northern Oregon Cascade Volcanoes, from South Sister in the right foreground to Mt. Jefferson to Mt. Hood. Mt. Adams can be faintly seen in the far background. Note the recently erupted lava flows on the flanks of South Sister. (221216-14)
Download ImageObsidian flow on South Sister volcano, Oregon
Aerial view of Rock Mesa rhyodacite lava dome and flow on the side of South Sister stratovolcano, Oregon. The lava erupted about 2200 years ago.
Download ImageKlippen and detachment fault, California
Small klippen along low-angle normal fault: brown dolomite of Proterozoic Johnnie Fm over basement gneiss. Death Valley, California (IP2212-9600)
Download ImageCrater Lake, Oregon (vertical)
Aerial view of Crater Lake Caldera, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (IP2212-9489)
Download ImageAlameda Creek and San Francisco Bay, CA
Aerial view of salt evaporators and Alameda Creek debouching into San Francisco Bay, Fremont, California (221129-118)
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