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Roadcut in shales south of Wilson Lake, Kansas. Can you identify it's proper place in the stratigraphy (http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/189/09_meso.html#CRET) of the region? |
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This view is toward Wilson Lake from Kansas 232, north of Wilson, Kansas. The knob on the right side of the image is an erosional remnant of Cretaceous aged Dakota Sandstone. Good large-scale bedding features are visible on zooming. |
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As you can see there is some blank spaces in this photograph.I was sat on top of Worbarrow Tout hill and the wind was very strong.
Worbarrow Bay is a large broad and shallow bay just to the east of Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England, and is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It exposes a sequence of Cretaceous rocks from the Chalk to the west through to the Purbeck Beds in the east, where they form the promontory known as Worbarrow Tout. This is arguably one of the best coastal sections of the Cretaceous in Europe.[citation needed] Worbarrow Bay is only accessible when the Lulworth army firing ranges are open to the public. It can be reached by a 1.4-kilometre (0.9 mi) walk down an easy track alongside Tyneham Gwyle, from the car park alongside the ghost village of Tyneham. The northwest end of the bay is known as Cow Corner. |
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A more detailed version of a panorama that I posted yesterday, this one previously failed to properly stitch, but seems to be okay this time. |
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Overview of the outcrops of cliff-forming Fort Hays and overlying Smoky Hill Members of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation in southwest Trego County, Kansas. |
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Along Highway 12 - it was hard not to stop here with the sun hitting the outcrop at a nice angle.
I may be wrong about this, but I think these outcrops are part of the Cretaceous Straight Cliffs formation (sandstones and shales), which has occasional organic rich layers - including coal. |
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Colloquially called 'the blues' because of the blue-grey color, these sedimentary rocks outcrop in a canyon along Rte 12 in southern Utah.
The blue-grey rocks are part of the Cretaceous Kaiparowits formation, which formed when large rivers deposited their sediment. The orange layers in the distance are made up of younger Claron Limestone - this is the same rock unit that appears in Bryce Canyon. |
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Four friends taking a light-hearted break from exploring for fossils at Quarry 3 in the Changma Basin, northwestern Gansu Province, China. From left to right, quarry worker Mr. Zhang (Fossil Research and Development Center, Lanzhou), volunteer Jack Johnson, vertebrate paleontologist Matt Lamanna (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh), and paleontology graduate student Jessie Atterholt (University of California at Berkeley). Quarries like this in the Changma Basin have thus far yielded thousands of ~110 million-year-old fossils, including approximately 100 partial to nearly complete skeletons of primitive birds. (Note that Jack moved during the shooting of this GigaPan...) |
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The second of five from this afternoon... |
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Fourth of a group of five shot yesterday... |