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Columnar Basalts 1.0
Author: Ron Schott (rschott)
Tags:
columnar,
basalts,
yellowstone,
national,
park,
roadcut,
geology,
fofs,
beta,
32x13
Size: 1.34 gigapixels
Added: August 27, 2009
Total Views: 282
View in Google Earth 4.2+
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This GigaPan illustrates a roadcut in Yellowstone National Park just north of Tower Falls that exposes 1.5 Ma basaltic lava flows that show a spectacular variety of columnar jointing textures. From this vantage point I couldn't get the old Beta GigaPan robot to incline high enough to capture the top of the cut (due to modifications I've made to it to accomodate a Canon S5IS). In the field I got the feeling that this one was going to end up underexposed, so I shot another one from the same spot which will be published as Columnar Basalts 1.1.
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