Change of Perspective | Sand
I will NEVER take sand for granted ever again. I will remain thankful for having access to miles of natural beach along the Oregon Coastline. I will hope that sand-mining will never be a destructive…
Geology
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Layered | Coastline Complexity
How many ways can you describe the layered appearance of the Oregon Coastline? After seeing the obvious … Did you include layered formations created by ancient Pacific Northwest flood basalts? About seventeen million years ago…
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*Textures | Tumbled Smooth
River rocks… Smoothed by abrasion as rock collides against rock- Once jagged edges transform to convex as currents transport them downstream- Tumbled smooth in texture… eventually reduced in size- Dynamic river action smooths stones with…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: “Forces of Nature” Volcanoes
In the Cascade Mountain range- Oregon’s Mount Hood… slumbers peacefully as sheer blankets of evening mist and sunset clouds drift over in muted shades and shadows. In Northern California, Mount Shasta and her companion, Shastina, appear to…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: “Converge” What’s on your tectonic plate?
Geological processes are at work 24-7… 365 days a year- all over dynamic planet Earth. Gaze out on the Pacific Ocean. “Look out at the horizon. What do you see?” A good spot to fish, place…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: “Angular” Works in Geologic Time
Virgin River Gorge Northwest Arizona at the Utah Border… Faulted, fractured, tilted Paleozoic and Mesozoic rock layers: Conglomerate, limestone, siltstone, chert, shale, and gypsum… become the geometric tools of geology. Cliffs stand in near vertical…