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Post by barbarian on Aug 24, 2016 20:15:26 GMT -5
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Post by barbarian on Aug 24, 2016 20:17:26 GMT -5
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 25, 2016 9:23:27 GMT -5
Autumn, October 2011. Quebec.  Mickey |
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 25, 2016 9:37:25 GMT -5
barbarian,
As usual, stunning.
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Post by barbarian on Aug 26, 2016 19:54:12 GMT -5
That is a most intriguing landscape. If I'm getting the scale right,those are really big boulders. Glacial remains?
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 26, 2016 22:04:39 GMT -5
That is a most intriguing landscape. If I'm getting the scale right,those are really big boulders. Glacial remains? Now that you mention it they do look like huge boulders. I cannot image what enormous forces could have moved them. They project, surprisingly, out of a relatively flat landscape. I thought they were the remnants of an ancient mountain range. The only one I could think of was the Laurentian which, further north, is still, optimistically, called mountains. I do not know if the Precambrian Mountains extended this far east. The scenery, when my son and I were there in late October, was incomparable. On a three week vacation to the east coast I took over 1,100 pictures. From Toronto all the way to Peggy's Cove on Nova Scotia's Atlantic coast every bend in the road produced another spectacular landscape. My camera was in my hand almost continuously. Jeff, fortunately, loves driving and he particularly liked my little Toyota Matrix. Mickey |
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Post by hansz on Aug 27, 2016 3:21:28 GMT -5
Mickey, Barbarian,
As a trained geologist it is very easy to imagine what nature forces can do, just think of the Himalayas, Alps, Rockies, Andes etc.etc. Did you know that the Jura mountains were dispaced in toto for about 300 km to the north, gliding over a bed of evaporites (ie salt)?
Glaciers are able to transport a lot of rock - from rockflour to huge boulders...
The pictures are wonderful! I especially like the rendering of the clouds.
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 27, 2016 7:40:38 GMT -5
Mickey, Barbarian, As a trained geologist it is very easy to imagine what nature forces can do, just think of the Himalayas, Alps, Rockies, Andes etc.etc. Did you know that the Jura mountains were dispaced in toto for about 300 km to the north, gliding over a bed of evaporites (ie salt)? Glaciers are able to transport a lot of rock - from rockflour to huge boulders... The pictures are wonderful! I especially like the rendering of the clouds. Hans Thank you, Hans. I certainly now have a greater appreciation of the power of ice. During our drive almost every aspect was painted by the brilliant leaves. It was commonplace but never boring. The wondrous cloud formations were what made the picture come alive for me. I have been enthralled, since I was a child, by clouds. One may see so much in them. I am still a cloud addict and have made a small collection of cloud photos that I often refer to in my very amateurish forays into oil painting.  Mackerel Clouds. I did not know why they were called that until I actually saw a mackerel . Mickey |
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Post by belgiumreporter on Aug 27, 2016 12:14:13 GMT -5
If you like geological phenomena, you'll probably like the moeraki boulders, found on the beach between Mouraki and hampden on the New Zeeland southern island.They are a bit big to take home for your rock collection so they've been there for some 60 million years.   |
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 27, 2016 15:16:04 GMT -5
belgiumreporter,
Very impressive bowling balls and splendid photographs.
Mickey
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Post by hansz on Aug 27, 2016 15:22:28 GMT -5
For calcite cemented concretions of silt and clay, I like the second shot best, Francois. It plays with the mystical stories alleged to them.
Hans
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Post by barbarian on Sept 4, 2016 22:07:01 GMT -5
Small stream on the north side of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington state.  |
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 5, 2016 8:10:36 GMT -5
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Post by hannes on Sept 5, 2016 15:51:18 GMT -5
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Post by barbarian on Sept 6, 2016 14:13:26 GMT -5
I really like the translucency in this one. What is that? |
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