En route, a view of the Coral Pink sand dunes in SW Utah
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Also a view of El Dorado playa, a dry lake bed SE of Las Vegas where I
study dust devils
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A view of Meteor Crater from the road, showing the raised rim (it was
originally called Coon Butte)
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Self-portrait inside the crater |
Mid-week field trip from the dunes workshop, near Page,AZ. Dramatic
layers in the sandstone - the widely-spaced resistant layers show how
far the dunes advanced each year. |
With fellow Titanophile Mike Malaska, all tricked out with his geology
gear
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Entering the slot canyon with other bedding exposures |
We had a lunch stop where the canyon narrowed
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Layers formed by progressive advance of a dune, with episodes when
ripples march up from the bottom (and out of the rock face)
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Layer maestro Dave Rubin explains the 4-dimensional evolution of the
dunefield with its superposed ripples, and how it leads to the
2-dimensional pattern we see in the rocks.
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Fellow dust-devil fan Lynn Neakrase, in front of a fossil linear dune
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Careful watching out of the window as I flew out of Phoenix was rewarded
with a great view of Meteor Crater from the air
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