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EdBannister

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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 22, 2018 - 12:30am PT
Face it, after awareness of dimes develops, when we see crystals as ledges, our perspectives, have changed... we see stone differently than others do.. post your own views of stone that please the eye!
hooblie

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from out where the anecdotes roam
Dec 22, 2018 - 07:01am PT

dhayan

climber
culver city, ca
Dec 22, 2018 - 07:35am PT
^^^ wow, beautiful photos tfpu! ^^^
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Dec 22, 2018 - 07:49am PT
These photos average an area of 1" x 1".

Spesssertine garnet Idaho Sawtooths.


Smoky Quartz on Microcline, Idaho Sawtooths.

Garnet & Chrysocolla, 7 Devils Mountains, Idaho.

Thumb & garnets, 7 Devils Mountains, Idaho.

1/2" long Vivianite crystals, Blackbird Mine, Idaho
Tan Slacks

climber
Joshua Tree
Dec 22, 2018 - 08:02am PT
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 22, 2018 - 08:04am PT
Hard moves near the ground - Big holds all the way to the top-outs,(*step-off) ...Gnome Ofthe Be-careful'What-u-wish-for!
beautiful lines that draw you up, on beautiful rock*above deep water.


mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 22, 2018 - 08:06am PT
More Idaho stone. All from COR.
Reilly

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The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 22, 2018 - 08:32am PT
StahlBro

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San Diego, CA
Dec 22, 2018 - 09:07am PT
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Dec 22, 2018 - 09:34am PT

yesterday's stony idyll
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Dec 22, 2018 - 09:46am PT

So, I know this isn't quite what the thread is on, but here's how I'm seeing stone these days.

I'm learning how to make cannons for use in my jewelry, and also to sell, and this is my 5th piece.

And this one was the 3rd I've made. This rock came out of a gold mine in La Pas County near where I'm at in Quartzsite. It's Chrysocolla and Culpite in Quartz.
hamie

Social climber
Thekoots
Dec 23, 2018 - 12:43am PT
Reilly

The thread title is The Beauty OF Stone, not The Beauty ON Stone. Please pay attention! :) :) H.
kpinwalla2

Social climber
WA
Dec 23, 2018 - 12:09pm PT
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Dec 23, 2018 - 05:00pm PT
Wet stone. Grizzly Falls, King's Canyon.

Spider Savage

Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
Dec 23, 2018 - 05:05pm PT
Hooblie - Some pretty tuff photos!

Here are some gneiss ones:

thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Dec 23, 2018 - 07:47pm PT
Reeotch

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4 Corners Area
Dec 24, 2018 - 07:07am PT
Minerals

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The Deli
Dec 24, 2018 - 10:28am PT


MEDIOCRE

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MD
Dec 24, 2018 - 10:41am PT
Minerals

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The Deli
Dec 24, 2018 - 11:06am PT


Minerals

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The Deli
Dec 24, 2018 - 11:26am PT





Minerals

Social climber
The Deli
Dec 24, 2018 - 11:32am PT

Ladder structures






mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 24, 2018 - 11:52am PT
Pardon my intrusion.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 24, 2018 - 12:44pm PT
Beg pardon.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 24, 2018 - 01:02pm PT
I feel like such a buttinski...
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Dec 24, 2018 - 01:15pm PT
^^^ i wanna go to all those places, see all those things. and i'm old!
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Dec 24, 2018 - 02:07pm PT

Still working on polishing this one. A little imaginary crag.
EdBannister

Mountain climber
13,000 feet
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2018 - 04:03pm PT
thanks for the great photos!!! cool!!

apparently supertopo admin has blocked my photo posts....

no surprise

the El Cap photo i was going to post here is at
https://500px.com/photo/287678225/christmas-wishes-by-ed-bannister
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 24, 2018 - 04:05pm PT
CascadeOtto

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Seattle, WA
Dec 24, 2018 - 07:26pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 24, 2018 - 10:08pm PT
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EB, that's a fine gallery. TFPU & Merry Christmas.
Rick A

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Boulder, Colorado
Dec 25, 2018 - 06:20am PT
Charlie D.

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Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Dec 25, 2018 - 06:49am PT
Ksolem

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Monrovia, California
Dec 25, 2018 - 02:26pm PT
24 square inches of Dome Rock...

mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 25, 2018 - 03:52pm PT


Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Jan 1, 2019 - 05:10pm PT
The mountains are calling...
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Jan 1, 2019 - 06:44pm PT
^^^^^^^^ Indeed. Could be stone inside stone.




The Opal, at Squamish
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Jan 1, 2019 - 10:43pm PT

Dusy and Penstemon domes, Courtright Reservoir CA.
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Jan 2, 2019 - 11:25am PT
Helping to curate a Native American collection for the local archaeological center and found this. It has been micro flaked along the top edge. Thinking Chert or Jasper. Thoughts?


Edit

My son the geologist says Jasper, but very unusual color combination.
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 7, 2019 - 10:26am PT

donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jan 7, 2019 - 03:27pm PT

A quartzite dike I encountered during the first ascent of Cerro Chueco in Patagonia last year.
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 30, 2019 - 10:33am PT
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Jan 30, 2019 - 10:44am PT
OMG - that dike is like "Beam Me Up Scotty!"

I have been cutting stones for my jewelry as you all know, and am having the best time. I hope you can enjoy the imaginary mountainscapes set in stone.

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 30, 2019 - 11:03am PT
Happiegrrrl2, are those for sale?

Call me, please, if they are.

My number's on page one of The Flames.

Seriously.
capseeboy

Social climber
portland, oregon
Jan 30, 2019 - 11:28am PT
That's some fine stone. The gneiss was nice, the tuff wasn't, I took the granite for granted, I got sentimental over the sediment and high on the rock.
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Jan 30, 2019 - 11:48am PT
Mouse. Yes, at TalismanToo.Etsy.com.

Can give you a call later, but heading into a class now. Learning silversmithing techniques.
thebravecowboy

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The Good Places
Jan 30, 2019 - 04:24pm PT
Aeriq

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100-year Visitor
Jan 30, 2019 - 06:28pm PT
Drone shot of the Vermilion Cliffs, Northern AZ

capseeboy

Social climber
portland, oregon
Jan 31, 2019 - 07:20am PT
^^^^A maze zing!
AP

Trad climber
Calgary
Jan 31, 2019 - 07:26am PT
I would like to see some pictures of Tucker's stone walls in J Tree. These are a work of art
Aeriq

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100-year Visitor
Jan 31, 2019 - 07:44am PT
I would like to see some pictures of Tucker's stone walls in J Tree. These are a work of art

Ask and you will receive!

Aeriq

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100-year Visitor
Jan 31, 2019 - 07:54am PT
Scole

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Zapopan
Jan 31, 2019 - 08:54am PT
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 5, 2019 - 03:18pm PT
thebravecowboy

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The Good Places
Feb 5, 2019 - 03:25pm PT
NutAgain!

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South Pasadena, CA
Feb 5, 2019 - 03:50pm PT








el jumarrissimo

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Florida
Feb 5, 2019 - 04:40pm PT
larryhorton

Trad climber
NM
Feb 5, 2019 - 10:26pm PT
rickroll

Boulder climber
T.H.C
Feb 6, 2019 - 06:41am PT
Don Pedro rock colors
Don Pedro pyrite crystals
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 6, 2019 - 09:59am PT
Cross-cutting mafic and felsic dikes in diortie near Darwin Falls and Panamint Springs, Death Valley

Aplite dike with quartz interior in Jurassic Oasis monzogranite on the Forty-nine Palms Oasis trail near Twenty-nine Palms, CA

Banded, foliated, folded, and faulted Proterozoic Pinto Gneiss, Panorama Trail, Black Rock Canyon near Yucca Valley, CA

High-grade Gneiss near Cho La Pass Khumbu Region Nepal exhibiting "boudinage" structures in felsic or alpite dikes in a dark mineral (mainly hornblende and biotite) matrix.

Highly sheared blueschist facies interbedded sandstone and shale, Franciscan Complex near Shell Beach, Sonoma County, CA.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 6, 2019 - 10:09am PT
Did someone say Darwin Falls?
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 6, 2019 - 10:17am PT
Rcklzrd

Trad climber
Prescott, AZ
Feb 6, 2019 - 04:14pm PT
Minerals

Social climber
The Deli
Feb 6, 2019 - 04:37pm PT

Cool photos.


Don Pedro rock colors

Bornite? (Also known as peacock ore)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornite
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 6, 2019 - 05:01pm PT
In case you don't already have this new publication "A More Informative Way to Name Plutonic Rocks" Glazner et al 2018

https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/science/G384A/article.htm
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 6, 2019 - 05:01pm PT
Grand assembly of geologic types, Tuolumne T. Fine photos.
ß Î Ř T Ç H

Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
Feb 6, 2019 - 08:20pm PT

https://www.ebay.com/itm/California-Indian-Grinding-Slab-And-Hand-Pestle-Metate-Miwok-Merced-River/392231270062
Minerals

Social climber
The Deli
Feb 7, 2019 - 02:25pm PT

Thanks for the link, Tradster. I had not seen the article yet, but knew about it.

The new classification system obviously makes sense. We’ll see how much traction it gains.
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 7, 2019 - 02:44pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 7, 2019 - 03:51pm PT
Folded "ribbon" chert of the Franciscan Complex near Battery Townsley north of Rodeo Gulch, Marin County

Banded gneiss with pegmatite pocket near Cho La Pass Nepal

Foliated, folded & faulted garnet-bearing, glaucophane schist exotic block in the Franciscan Complex, Sunset Rocks near Goat Rock
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 9, 2019 - 05:04pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 9, 2019 - 07:59pm PT
Inter-layered pumice and obsidian, Pamum Crater near Mono Lake

Nodule in Paleozoic meta-sedimentary rocks near Bennittville Mine
drunkenmaster

Social climber
santa rosa
Feb 10, 2019 - 10:34am PT
drunkenmaster

Social climber
santa rosa
Feb 10, 2019 - 10:35am PT
drunkenmaster

Social climber
santa rosa
Feb 10, 2019 - 10:35am PT
FRUMY

Trad climber
Bishop,CA
Feb 10, 2019 - 03:00pm PT
Aeriq

Sport climber
100-year Visitor
Feb 10, 2019 - 03:47pm PT
How about a little color from the Sedona area!




tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 10, 2019 - 03:57pm PT
Did someone mention Sedona?

The Devil's Bridge...

Basalt dike in red sandstone of the Permian Schnebly Hill Formation...

Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte...

Note the ~ 10 ft thick Apache limestone bed about midway up on the red sandstone buttes...

ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Feb 10, 2019 - 04:12pm PT
softcore beauty

Aeriq

Sport climber
100-year Visitor
Feb 10, 2019 - 04:14pm PT
Nice, TT!

River rock pattern on display at the Grand Canyon:


The inimitable Paradise Forks, Gold Wall:

tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 10, 2019 - 08:12pm PT
Aeriq: that's an interesting photo. What is the scale? The pattern is so uniform it almost doesn't look natural.
Aeriq

Sport climber
100-year Visitor
Feb 10, 2019 - 09:44pm PT
The diamond shapes are about 1/2" for scale - pretty small.
82nome

Trad climber
NV
Feb 11, 2019 - 12:59pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 11, 2019 - 02:55pm PT
Faulted, erosional unconformity with andesite cobble conglomerate overlying interbedded siltstone and sandstone of the late Miocene Neroly Formation, Altamont Hills, CA. Note offset beds below hammer.

Miocene Columbia River columnar basalts, NE Oregon
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 11, 2019 - 03:34pm PT
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Feb 14, 2019 - 12:03pm PT

Walking Lucas this morning, I found this little stone mountain. It stands upright on it's own, which is kind of cool.
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 14, 2019 - 05:12pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 14, 2019 - 05:27pm PT
Feldspar mega-crysts aka Tuolumne knobs...


i-b-goB

Social climber
Nutty
Feb 14, 2019 - 05:28pm PT


Edit: Emma Stone
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 14, 2019 - 07:11pm PT
i-b-goB: did you post her on the right thread?

EDIT: OK got it....I thought maybe she loved Tuolumne knobs ;-)
McHale's Navy

Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
Feb 14, 2019 - 11:33pm PT
Heart of the matter
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 15, 2019 - 10:40am PT
Mother Lode quartz from Mariposa.
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 15, 2019 - 03:14pm PT
Hello Mr Pocket...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUUytUkMGO0&t=7s
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 15, 2019 - 08:43pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 16, 2019 - 08:01am PT
capseeboy

Social climber
portland, oregon
Feb 16, 2019 - 08:16am PT
Nice Zuni soft core rock :)
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 17, 2019 - 06:42am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 17, 2019 - 11:07am PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 18, 2019 - 11:07am PT
gneiss on ice...

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 18, 2019 - 11:27am PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 18, 2019 - 05:27pm PT
Volcaniclastic breccia &...

...blueschist of the Franciscan Complex near Jenner, CA


tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 20, 2019 - 09:36am PT
Mani stones...

mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 20, 2019 - 08:48pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Feb 20, 2019 - 11:18pm PT
Meta-volcaniclastic? rock near Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu region, Nepal...

mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 24, 2019 - 08:30am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 24, 2019 - 02:07pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 6, 2019 - 07:50pm PT

tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 6, 2019 - 08:41pm PT
Meta-sedimentary rocks of the Jurassic Mariposa Fm collected on Hwy 140 west of Mariposa.

Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Mar 6, 2019 - 09:57pm PT


I have one more session left to work on cutting stones before I leave Quartzsite. Finally feel like I have a basic understanding, but only that. People say it's easy to do, and maybe it is. But it's not so easy to do it well.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Mar 6, 2019 - 10:06pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 7, 2019 - 09:31am PT
High grade metamorphic olistolith in Franciscan meta-sandstone melange, Point Bonita, Marin County, CA

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 7, 2019 - 09:35am PT
I bet you can't say that real fast three times. :0)
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 7, 2019 - 05:31pm PT
Quaternary caldera-forming rhyolitic ignimbrite (aka Bishop Tuff) from the ORG ;-)...


This is an excellent paper on the geology of the Long Valley Caldera & the ORG...
https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2016/5120/sir20165120.pdf
Minerals

Social climber
The Deli
Mar 7, 2019 - 08:30pm PT

^^^ I see sanidine. And fiamme.

It’s cool to see small pieces of granitic or metamorphic rock in the Bishop Tuff.

Good stuff, Tradster. Thanks for the link. When I first opened the article and saw the title, I wondered if Wes was one of the authors. Sure enough.
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 7, 2019 - 10:31pm PT
You can really see the Sanidine in these photos [rectangular, colorless, glassy crystals]. Some amorphous glassy blobs of quartz, too. Fiamme in the form of collapsed lithic and pumice fragments.



I just found this recent paper on precise 40Ar/39Ar age dating of single Sanidine crystals in the Bishop Tuff (BT) by incremental heating, multi-collector mass spectrometry (IH MCMS) at 764.8 ka, shortly after the Matuyama to Brunhes magnetic polarity reversal.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0347/459ec0dcc1aea7bc24254ffda9b3fef712b1.pdf

In this paper on Compositional Zoning of the Bishop Tuff,
https://academic.oup.com/petrology/article/48/5/951/1472295
they talk about the eruption taking place over a 6-day period. I'm curious what dating method that is based on that has diurnal temporal resolution. Imagine watching the eruption of the BT from the summit of Mt Dana...Mammoth Mt would probably have been too close for comfort.

EDIT: In this 1997 J. of Geology paper
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/515937
Wilson & Hildreth describe using fall deposit chronometry (volcanic ash accumulation rates based on modern observed volcanic ash deposits), to estimate ~ 6 days for the BT deposition.

The new stratigraphic framework shows that much of the Bishop ignimbrite is intraplinian in nature, and that fall deposits and ignimbrite units previously inferred to be sequential are largely or wholly coeval.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 8, 2019 - 08:15am PT
BEAUTYIS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 9, 2019 - 07:49am PT
Beautiful no matter how it's spelt.
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Mar 9, 2019 - 08:26am PT
spessertine garnet on quartz.


Barite


fluorite


aquamarine & muscovite mica

Minerals

Social climber
The Deli
Mar 9, 2019 - 09:29am PT

Nice texture photos, Tradster. I’m guessing that the summit of Mt. Dana might have been a bit hostile during that week – spectacular views at the beginning of day 1, although probably quite temporary views. Thanks for the three more links. I read the abstracts and saved the two PDFs. Sure is nice to be able to store papers in PDF format on a computer, rather than in file boxes full of real paper. Reminds me of a story...

When I was in school at UNR, I was downstairs in the science library one day, photocopying papers from geology journals, and had a mishap. They often bind several journal issues into one binder/book, which makes it difficult to fully open the pages, to get a photocopy of an entire page. So, as we all have done, I was pushing down on the binder to flatten the pages as I was copying, and unfortunately didn’t realize how thin the glass on the photocopy machine was. : ) Well, next thing I know... SMASH!... there goes the glass. Oooops, sh#t, I thought. There was a girl/lady sitting over at a near table, who immediately looked up when she heard the semi-loud noise, with a look of WTF? on her face, but she didn’t say a word. I went upstairs to the front desk, and told the old guy there what had happened, who then had a look of disbelief on his face, but acknowledged that it can be difficult to copy pages when they bind so many issues together. I felt bad about it at the time, but get a good laugh out of it now. : ) LOL...


Mouse, do you see the sharp contact in your second El Cap photo, which can also be seen in your first photo? The right-facing corner in your first photo is the “rivet corner” on Tribal Rite – pitch 3. The topo in the SuperTopo book has this feature drawn more accurately than the topo in the Sloan book. The feature in your second photo obviously needs no explanation.


Fritz, your quartz has parasites! Nice stuff.
healyje

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Portland, Oregon
Mar 9, 2019 - 10:55am PT



tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 9, 2019 - 02:27pm PT
DMT ya that looks like a mega bud of Bubba Kush😎

At first, I thought it was Mariposite...


Where was that photo of the ash fall olisolith taken? Near Monticello dam?


Minerals: just got a copy of Mike Searle’s book Continents Colliding.
An incredible compilation of work on the geology of the Himalayas & Tibet.
Many of the photos look like they’re out ofAmerican Alpine Journal.

If the weather cooperates, I hope to post some photos of beautiful rock from between Grants & PieTown NM in the next few days.
mouse from merced

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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 10, 2019 - 08:07pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 14, 2019 - 01:12pm PT
Crumpled and rumpled, it looks like serpentine, but what do I know? At Bagby-on-Merced.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 15, 2019 - 11:10pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 17, 2019 - 10:21am PT
Only got 1 decent photo of beautiful Jurassic Zuni sandstone (Ventana Arch, El Malpais National Monument)
before the schiesse hit the fan...
& turned into this along the GDMBR north of Pie Town on Tues afternoon (3/12/19). This photo taken same day at the Toaster House bike hostel...
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 17, 2019 - 11:01am PT
If the weather cooperates, I hope to post some photos of beautiful rock from between Grants & PieTown NM in the next few days.

Shucks. Glad you had shelter. Nice pic of the Ventana.


tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 17, 2019 - 01:17pm PT
I did get a couple of shots at the Visitor's Center of shallow marine fossils and worm burrows in what I think is the Lower Permian Glorieta sandstone...




REFERENCE
https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/456469
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 19, 2019 - 06:55am PT
DanMerrick

Social climber
FKA Banquo from Mo' Hill, CA
Mar 19, 2019 - 07:35am PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 20, 2019 - 08:27am PT

neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Mar 20, 2019 - 01:26pm PT
hey there say, tuolumne_tradster, and mouse...

say, very nice stuff!!
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 24, 2019 - 04:05pm PT
My interpretation is that this is cavity- and vesicle-filling analcime in basalt, collected in Black Rock Canyon near Yucca Valley, CA

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 25, 2019 - 10:08pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Mar 26, 2019 - 08:03am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Apr 8, 2019 - 04:18pm PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Apr 8, 2019 - 08:58pm PT
Luv that White Pocket photo Mouse...has a surreal quality to it.

Flute casts at base of sandstone, Gooseberry Trail, Island in the Sky, Canyonlands, Utah. Not sure what formation this is. I think it is above the White Rim sandstone and below the Navajo Sandstone...

Minerals

Social climber
The Deli
Apr 23, 2019 - 09:17pm PT

This thread could use some help, after the recent...........“changes.”

Was going through some old photos and found these. Probably posted them before, but don’t remember where/when.


Squishies
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hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Apr 24, 2019 - 04:01am PT
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Apr 24, 2019 - 04:58am PT
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

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Out Of Bed
Apr 24, 2019 - 05:52am PT
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