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2013: From looking at Google Maps, the signage has not been updated in the last 10 years changing the stated duration of the unconformity of 55 million years to a more likely value (according to IUGS) of approx 75 million years? Siccar Point is one of the top 100 Geoheritage sites in the world.

#Scotland #Berwickshire #siccar point #geology #angular unconformity

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2023: The annual trip up to Treachery Headland this year gave us precious little surf but we had the most glorious weather to observe all the many, many cetaceans. The drone facilitated a great shot showing the folded Carboniferous turbidites making up the headland.

#australia #new south wales #sealrocks #treachery headland #humpback whale #Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin #Mavic mini 3 pro

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2023: So-called "Zebra Schist", found in Cambrian sediments at Harveys Return, north-west Kangaroo Island.

#australia #south australia #kangaroo island

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2023: Unconformity between the Bridgewater Formation calcarenite (Pleistocene) and the Middleton Sandstone (Cambrian), as seen at Cape Borda, the north-western point of Kangaroo Island. KI is now one of the hottest travel destinations in the world, thanks to the New York Times ... and it is worthy of that honour.

#australia #south australia #kangaroo island #geology

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2023: It has been a long-held bucket list item to see and photograph the ‘lights’ and it finally happened on 24 April 2023. Here is the Aurora Australis, photographed from the Neck, the isthmus that connects north and south Bruny Island (about an hour south of Hobart in Tasmania). None of the colours in the photos have been pushed in post-processing, but resulted from a longer exposure. 

#Australia #tasmania #brunyisland #astronomy

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2023: Disconformity at Fossil Bluff, northern Tasmania.

#australia #tasmania #wynyard #fossilbluff #disconformity

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2005: Shear zone in road cutting on the Furka Pass, Switzerland. Sarah for scale.

#switzerland #Valais #furkapass #geology

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2004: The famous Norwegian hike to the Besseggen ridge, a big day. The metamorphics here are a product of the Caledonian Orogeny (Cambrian-Silurian).

#norway #vestland #Jotunheimen National Park #geology

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2012: The Lake District in north-west England, more than justifiably called an area of outstanding natural beauty, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. A complex of mainly Cambrian to Silurian sediments and volcanics glaciated in the Pleistocene. 

#united kingdom #england #cumbria #geology #glaciation

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2022: Heading back to Yulara after shooting the sunset at Kata Tjuta (with about 100 helicopters buzzing overhead), a bunch of cars were parked on the exit road intersection. Turns out they were watching the moon spectacularly rising up thru the gap of Walpa Gorge. Apologies for the over-exposure, had no time get the tripod out.

#Northern Territory #Australia #kata tjuta #yulara #congolmerate

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Are you a geologist ? Is that how you travel so many places ? If so how did you do it all? And what work do you do in your travels ? And what field are you in to be able to travel so much ? I want to be a geologist it is my dream job and I've never talked to anyone that is one !Im just so excited about it all I was hoping you could tell me a little bit about it. Thank you for your time !:)

Did geology at uni, but went over to IT, a profession which took me to all those fabulous places. Still love rocks.

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What do you think is the most beautiful place

Loch Lomond

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I love your rocks! May I use a photo on my IntuitiveScribe blog?

Sure .. just credit it !

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Really admire the premise of your blog

Thank you

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2022: The Little Bunkers Range in the eastern Flinders Ranges showing a nice geomorphology of Cryogenian sediments (720-635 Ma), particularly with the Trezonian cuestas.

#australia #south australia #flinders ranges #the bunkers #geology

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2022: A section of the north-western fault boundary of the Bunkers Graben, found in the eastern Flinders Ranges (hanging wall on the right). Sediments shown are from the top of the Cryogenian, through the Ediacaran to the mid-Cambrian. These pics had to be done quickly as wedgetails eagles do NOT like drones. Also thrown for nix are a bunch of local emus. 

#australia #South Australia #flinders ranges #the bunkers #geology

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Not a question: hi from Catalonia!

I love your photos and comments, Pirineus, Scotland, Iceland, Arizona, Patagonia...

Thankyou very much