Tag: geology

WP Photo Challenge- Weathered, the Stories of Rocks

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“Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.”
― A.D. Posey

I’ve always been fascinated by rock formations.  There is a story there if you pause to notice…..

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A drought in New Mexico?

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A volcano in Central Oregon?

DSC00196An uplift of an inland sea?

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An ancient sea bed?

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing from Ocean to Mountains- If These Rocks Could Talk

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The land that we now know as Ireland once lay below a vast sea that covered the earth. The ancient seabed filled with layers of dead sea creatures metamorphosed into

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The moon shapes in this limestone are fossils from sea animals.

limestone. Over a process of millions of years, the land was uplifted forming hills and mountains.  A series of ice ages further changed the landscape by sculpting out fjords and leaving valleys and lakes in their wake.  The Burren in Western Ireland is a perfect place to explore these ancient processes.

A granite “tourist” left by a glacier in the limestone.
A sculpture from limestone, water, & wind.
Wave action left these beautiful patterns in the rock
A perfect planter for a tongue fern carved by water.
A sculpted pool.
Making a cairn of limestone on a mountain top in The Burren in memory of my father.

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