GeologyRocks

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If anyone can help identify this rock formation please leave a comment, Thanks!

Hi all

Im a beginner, I am heading up to the pentlands in the coming week - along the southern flank. I am wondering if anyone can provide me with details on the sedimentary and igneous rocks to look out for in these areas - i have a reference book ....keep it basic....

cheers

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This first Fossil was found in a quarry in Tennessee, USA.  The rock is limestone of ordivician age.

The Second was also found in Tennessee, USA within a soil matrix, probably of the Mississipian age.

What is this pattern on ground of the ocean 200 - 300 miles west of canarian islands? I saw it today on google maps. Any ideas?

Two hundred million years ago, Washington was two large islands, bits of continent on the move westward, eventually bumping up against the North American continent and calling it home. Even with their new fixed address, the shifting continues; the more extreme movement has subsided laterally and continues vertically. The upthrusting of plates continues to move our mountain ranges skyward – the path of least resistance.

The Columbian Mammoth, the official state fossil of Washington, crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North America some one million years ago and made a home roaming the vast grasslands that stretched from Alaska to Mexico, mirroring the great Rocky Mountains, and munching down about 300 pounds of vegetation each day. During the Pleistocene this extinct elephant extended his habitat down into Central America to modern day Nicaragua and Honduras before dying out around 12,500 years ago.

Metasequoia, a deciduous conifer, and one of the common fossils found in many of the Eocene sites of the Pacific northwest, flourished in Oregon's forests for millions of years. In honor of this long history, Oregon has named it their official state fossil. 

Slimeball…a derogative term to be sure, from the modern usage, but before it was ever dragged down to the world of insults and verbal nastiness we know it for today, the scum of which we speak and the small bacteria that form them were simply the catalysts for the many beautiful colours we see in hot springs.