#outcrop

[geologyin-blog]

Zebra Schist outcrop, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

Photo ©️ landscapeofsa

[thesilicontribesman]

Malcolm Canmore's Tower, Dunfermline, Scotland

Like many historic cities, there is often a through line to the ancient past. Here in the ruins of the 11th Century CE Canmore's Tower, is perhaps a hint of a more ancient fortification?

[sushi11]

Happy geologist day🤠

[geogonzo]

Not of this world

Mud vulcano, Beciu Romania

Nicht von dieser Welt

Schlamm Vulkan, Beciu Rumänien

Air photo

Maya Tour 2024

[ancientfrozenglaciershark]

Not enough photos of the Palisades Sill on here!

Those 2 are my pics but they do not nearly represent how awesome she is. evidence:

I love you earth, I love you time, I love you millions of years of erosion exposing giant sheets of intrusive igneous rock for me to gawk at

[feralgoblin-art]

I had a field trip to a local outcrop last Saturday. There were marine fossils and limestone (lots of limestone), iron concretions and a paleosol bed, as well as a bit of chert (the chert is not local to this particular area though!). No digging or taking samples allowed, however, I took many pictures:) ! I’m especially interested in chert, it’s a very cool chalcedony variant. I will be doing a 15 minute presentation about Buffalo River Chert at the end of May. I might tell you all more about that trip later on:) I’m excited for it!! 🪨🏞️🛶

[melangle]

A Granite outcrop rising half a kilometer above the flat surrounding plain. Around 2.6 Billion years old Peak Charles is one of many large outcroppings of ancient bedrock that are exposed across western Australia, this outcrop sits about at the edge of the Yilgarn craton

[camblorite]

Itaguaré outcrop in Bertioga-SP, Brazil

[rugged11th]

And in other architectures...

[sakuraswordly]

[phillsphotography]

Shiprock in North East New Mexico looks like a gigantic cathedral. https://www.phillsphotography.com/newmexico/

[unkn0wnvariable]

Sunlit Limestone

Patches of sunlight breaking through the trees and falling on one of the areas of exposed limestone, in Twywell Gullet.

[rosta-bouda]

A wall of rough-hewn stones of irregular shape

[caffeinateddiscoverer]

Katie Orlinsky

The Batagaika Crater, located in the Chersky Range of northeastern Siberia, Russia, is the largest permafrost crater in the world. One kilometer (0.6 miles) long, 100 meters (328 feet) deep, and growing, it has been sinking due to thawing permafrost since the 1960s. Batagaika’s rim is extremely unstable and the site of regular landslides, retreating by as much as 30 meters (98 feet) in a single year.

67.580000°, 134.771400°

Source imagery: Maxar

[claraoswalds]

It's funny, 'cause I wonder where the TARDIS goes at random. Maybe it lands on some outcrop by the sea. And there's a tribe and they worship it for 100 years. Then they grow up and try to burn it. Then they get wise. They preserve it. Then they build a city all around it, till the TARDIS is just a tiny little dot, surrounded by skyscrapers and monorails. Time passes and the city falls. It all gets swept away. And there's the TARDIS... still on its outcrop... by the sea.

[a-dream-seeking-light]

"A Rocky Rise" by Carl Evans, 2023

Carl Evans shot this full moon photo from Broadhaven, Pembrokeshire. The outcropping in the middle is known as Church Rock. The image consists of two photos stacked to show the moon through the clouds and the birds in flight around Church Rock. "I stood on the beach at Broadhaven for a couple of hours waiting for the Moon to rise. The clouds initially hid the Moon and as I was walking away it appeared among the clouds, adding a nice effect over it," Evans said of the photoshoot.