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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: pluton on September 08, 2017, 07:33:33
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Here, a volcanic rock in the Mojave Desert of California shown partway along it's disintegration from multi-million ton mass of cooled lava into grains of fine sand. Using the GPS EXIF you can see it's location on the Google Earth of your choice.
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Definitely looks alien and organic. Great lighting.
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Thanks Frank. I'm gradually building a collection of fractured rock shots.
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pluton,
You don't carry a hammer and chisel with you on your hikes do you?
Dave who thinks GPS might help kids with Easter egg hunts.
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Love the amazing texture as witness of the wild behavior of the earth!
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Keith, Glad to see that someone else has a fascination with fractured rocks! My work involves dating rock surfaces, so I have (literally) thousands of similar sample photos, though not all are of fractured rocks. It's always a challenge to make the photos interesting, as well as documenting the sample. BTW - in some desert environments you will find that rocks of about this size are preferentially fractured north-south, due to the way that tensile stresses build up in the rock interior as the sun passes overhead each day! (https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsabulletin/article-abstract/117/1-2/161/2131/physical-weathering-in-arid-landscapes-due-to?redirectedFrom=fulltext unfortunately the full text of this article is behind the GSA paywall).
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Just for fun, here are 2 more: The first an igneous rock from Turtle Mountains in California, the second a chunk of sandstone(Chicken Wing) in Utah(GPS'd):