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Cross-cutting dikes intruding metasedimentary rock, Texas.

Felsic dikes intruding metasedimentary rock, Franklin Mountains, Texas (100129-24)
Download ImageTilted Ordovician sedimentary rock, El Paso, Texas

Aerial view of tilted Ordovician sedimentary rock of the Franklin Mountains and El Paso, Texas (100128-114)
Download ImageMt. Baker stratovolcano, Washington (vertical)

Mt. Baker, a glacier-covered stratovolcano in northern Washington (220830-7)
Download ImageRotated quartzite blocks

Rotated quartzite blocks in marble shear zone. Interpreted shear direction is top-right. Death Valley, California. (230328-6)
Download ImageSheath fold in marble.

Sheath fold in marble shear zone. Pen is parallel to lineation. Death Valley, California (230328-2)
Download ImageBanded calcite in vein (vertical)

Travertine–banded calcite–in veins. Death Valley, California. (230327-5)
Download ImageBanded calcite (vertical)

Travertine–banded calcite–in veins. Death Valley, California. (230327-5)
Download ImageRed Spring thrust, Nevada (vertical)

Red Spring Thrust fault: gray Cambrian carbonate rock over red and tan Jurassic sandstone. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada (230326-18)
Download ImageRed Spring thrust, Nevada

Red Spring Thrust fault: gray Cambrian carbonate rock over red and tan Jurassic sandstone. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada (230326-16)
Download ImageTilted Paleozoic strata, Nevada

Aerial view of inclined Paleozoic strata, SW Nevada (220325-374)
Download ImageTilted Paleozoic strata, Nevada (vertical)

Aerial view of inclined Paleozoic strata, SW Nevada (220325-370)
Download ImageDowned tree and Mt. St. Helens, Washington

Downed tree in the 1980 blast zone of Mt. St. Helens. Spirit Lake and Mt. St. Helens stratovolcano in the background, Washington (220814-22)
Download ImageBrecciated pillow basalt, Oregon

Brecciated pillow basalt and palagonite of the Miocene Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) on Saddle Mountain, Oregon Coast Range. (130902-19)
Download ImageStone Stripes, Glacier NP, Montana

Stone stripes, a type of the periglacial feature, Glacier National Park, Montana. (120722-39)
Download ImageCleavage and bedding in limestone

Vertical cleavage and dipping bedding in Paleozoic limestone, Canadian Rockies, British Columbia, Canada (120706-18)
Download ImageArchean gneiss (Vertical)

Archean folded gneiss, Wind River Range, Wyoming (14WRRx-17)
Download ImageOutcrop of slate, Idaho (vertical)

Outcrop of slate, Pioneer Mountains, Idaho (14Pio-20)
Download ImageOutcrop of slate, Pioneer Mtns, Idaho

Outcrop of slate, Pioneer Mountains, Idaho (14Pio-19)
Download ImageBasement uplift: Beartooth Plateau, Wyoming

Archean basement rock exposed in the Beartooth Plateau, Montana (14Bear-2)
Download ImageBeartooth Plateau, Wyoming-Montana

Beartooth Plateau, a basement uplift exposing Archean rock on the border of Wyoming-Montana. View down Chain Creek, Wyoming. (14Bear-1)
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