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• Sediment from Montara State Park, California
• Diptera tipulidae 846b
• Curwensville Reservoir
• Basalt Columns at Skinner Butte, Eugene, OR
• Allegheny Formation sandstone, plane polars
• Slickensides on slabs of Brallier Formation shale, Paw Paw Tunnel
• Portrush: hornfels (contact metamorphosed Lias shale) above Portrush gabbroic/doleritic sill
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite TS-3
• Marble
• Archean gneiss, Gallatin Range, Montana
• Convolute bedding in Millboro Formation sandstone
• Pipe Rock, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Arkose, Crossed Polars
• Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
• Peridotite from the Josephine Ophiolite, Crossed Polars
• Felsite intrusion, Iceland
• Verdite
• Pyroxenite
• Mauch Chunk Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Contact between New Market Formation (lower unit) and overlying Lincolnshire Formation (upper unit), near Staunton, Virginia
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• Sandstone of Hampshire Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Sediment from Buggs Creek, Annandale, VA
• CPR Tunnel Debris Flow
• Imbricate zone, Durness Limestones, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Belemnoids
• Wilson Hall, Bluestone Limestone, James Madison University
• Sand from Long Island Sound, Bronx, New York
• Snowball Earth Eduational Rock Sample Suite TS-7
• Holland Point, Virginia
• Chesapecten jeffersonius
• The Drowned Forest - Hebgen Lake, Montana
• Tension gashes in Cambrian Bison Creek Formation, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Unconformity east of Portrush, Northern Ireland
• Soft sediment deformation variety pack
• Mylonite at Corrie Sands, Islay, Scotland
• Talc
• Shelly Sand from Portrush, Northern Ireland
• Mirevalles Deposits
• Passage Creek: not in flood
• Fine ooids
• Granite
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample A
• Chesapecten nefrens
• Walker Top mylonite
• Garnet schist
• Siccar Point, Scotland
• Beryl, Crossed Polars
• Gypsum, var. Alabaster, Crossed Polars
• Graded beds of pisolites, Tansil Formation
• Sand from Muir Beach, Marin County, California
• The Quake Lake Slide - Hebgen Lake, Montana
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample I-A
• Graywacke, Plane Polars
• Martinsburg Formation crinoids and brachiopods
• Porphyritic Rhyolite, Crossed Polars
• Folded porphyritic green metavolcanic rock, St. Anthony, Newfoundland
• "Chill and bake," Blackwaterfoot Beach, Arran, Scotland
• Weverton Formation
• El Paso Texas and Cd. Juarez Mexico
• Ostracodes in Tonoloway Formation limestone
• Eurypterid
• Sediment from Moss Landing Beach, California
• Cirque Peak, Banff National Park, Alberta
• Echinoid hemicidaris
• Panorama of Reynisfjara beach in Iceland
• Granite
• Devonian Hampshire and lower Mississippian Rockwell Formations roadcut on Corridor H, West Virginia
• Rockwell Formation diamictite
• Grinnell Formation quartz sandstone and red argillite
• Pillow basalts at Kirby Cove
• Cloudina
• Weekeroo 03 - Bookshelf fractures and shear bands in Walter-Outalpa Shear Zone
• Sand from Ophir Beach, Oregon
• Foram from Port Charlotte, Islay, Scotland,at 2775x
• Argentinian folds
• Cushendun Conglomerate of the Cross Slieve Group, Cushendun, Northern Ireland
• Heavy Mineral Sediment from Carmel Beach, California
• Disaggregated Sediment from the Choptank Formation, Zone 13
• Mauch Chunk Formation
• Augen gneiss, Transition Zone, Shetland
• Foreknobs Formation - Baker section 4
• Kink banding in Eldon Formation carbonates, exposed on roche moutonee east of Athabasca Glacier
• Foreknobs Formation- Hunting Ridge 2
• Yesnaby Castle, Orkney
• Feeder dike(s) of the Catoctin Formation, exposed at Little Devil's Stairs Overlook, Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
• Chippokes Plantation 1
• Diptera tipulidae 936
• Tanytrachelos, from the Solite Quarry in the Dan River Basin, Virginia
• Anticline in Veach Gap
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample D
• Folds in the Catoctin Formation
• Cornwallis' Cave
• Sediment from La Isla Verde, Puerto Rico
• Kaap Valley Pluton, Barberton Greenstone Belt
• Tauz karst spring - the deepest underwater cave in Romania
• Anticline in Edinburg Formation, Opequon Creek, Clarke County, Virginia
• Blueschist
• Sea stacks and sea bird nesting sites, south of West Lighthouse, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland, U.K.
• Allegheny Formation coal, plane polars
• Dinwoody Formation, Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Hole In The Rock, Papago Park, Tempe, Arizona
• Facies change across the Cathedral Escarpment, Field, British Columbia, Canada
• Kyanite quartzite
• Base of the Stac Fada Member of the Clachtoll Formation of the Stoer Group, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Caliche from the Hueco Formation, West Texas
• Sediment from the boil at Blue Spring State Park, Orange City, Florida
• Foram from Blackbird Caye, Turneffe Atoll, Belize, 2785x
• Brown limestone
• Fossil fern
• Graptolites
• Aragonite
• Great Unconformity, Wind River Canyon, Wyoming
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite PFH-4
• Hornblende
• Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, Madison Valley, Montana
• Foram from La Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, 2850x
• Ellicott City granodiorite, Ellicott City, Maryland
• Slaughter Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico
• Green Tuff from Jawbone Flats, Oregon
• Meteorite from Morocco
• Microbead found in sediment from Accotink Creek, Fairfax, Virginia
• Metamorphic rocks and granite exposed along the shore of Cabbage Island, Maine
• Darton Peak, WY
• Kink bands in schist of the Laurel Formation, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, D.C.
• Igneous intrusions in gneiss, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Sandstone
• Siltstone
• Gypsum, var. Alabaster, Plane Polars
• Massanutten Sandstone
• Sediment from St. Vincent's, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Tumbling Run
• Calcite and [?] precipitated on gneiss used as aquarium decoration, face 3 of 3
• Flathead Sandstone, Wind River Canyon, Wyoming
• Migmatite, Plane Polars
• Leopard Rock, Beartooth Highway
• Albite in Diorite, Crossed Polars
• Foram from Andros Island, Bahamas, 3785x
• Swift Run Formation
• Fossil display at the Virginia Department of Geology and Mineral Resources
• Pyroxene in Stillwater Complex Cumulate, Montana
• Holy Cross, Colorado quadrangle
• Tafoni-covered wall, Giant City State Park, Illinois
• Conophyton
• Suite of four metamorphic index minerals
• Mahantango Formation showing trace fossils, Fort Valley Road, Virginia
• Permian Reef Trail, McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
• Ripple marks in mudstone
• Kink banding in Laurel Formation of Rock Creek Shear Zone, Broad Branch, Washington, DC
• Sediment from Glass Beach, Ft. Bragg, California
• Dike contact exposed at Kildonan, Arran, Scotland
• Stromatolites in Helena (Siyeh) Formation limestone from Alberta, Canada
• Galena
• Folded strata of the Silurian Tonoloway Formation
• Kimberlite from Barkly West, South Africa, Plane Polars
• Diptera tipulidae 2026
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample D
• Fossil ginkgo leaf
• Looking West - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Chip suite, El Paso region geology
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• Serpentine, Plane Polars
• Permian Peaks - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Ripple marks and phyllitic sheen in Miette Group slate, Icefields Parkway and Trans-Canada Highway, Banff National Park
• Goethite
• Em4 fluvial process model after a run
• Paleoplant in Hampshire Formation
• Anthracite
• Unknown Igneous Rock Sample
• Mount Baldy (Barrier Peak), Alberta
• Demopolis Chalk
• Quartzite, crossed polars
• Shenandoah River - South Fork
• Debris flow east of Field, British Columbia, Canada
• Glossopteris
• Olivine
• Rugose corals
• Trace fossils in the Millboro Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
• Brecciated Antietam Formation
• Looking west from Spruce Knob, West Virginia
• Trezona Formation Stromatolites
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample T
• Sediment from Andros Island, Bahamas, at low tide
• Dirty terminus of the Athabasca Glacier
• Volcanic arches at Dimmuborgir, near Lake Mývatn, Iceland
• Inverted graded bedding in Dalradian metagraywackes, Lochranza, Arran, Scotland
• Lamprophyre dikes on the Virginia side, visible from the Billy Goat Trail
• Biotite
• Massanutten sandstone slab with trace fossils (annotated)
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample B
• Detail of Western Fold in the Large Rt 279 Outcrop, Bennington, Vermont, USA
• Echinoid
• Boxwork on sandstone
• Urbanite
• Sand from Clam Beach, Humboldt County, California
• Brachiopods and crinoid stems in Mississippian-aged Reynolds Limestone
• Muscovite and Chlorite, Crossed Polars
• Öxará River at Þingvellir National Park, Iceland
• Mylonite, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Unknown Sedimentary Rock Sample
• Graded bedding in the Martinsburg Formation
• Up-close, small-scale folding, Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline WV55
• Lower Mississippian Rockwell Formation roadcut on Corridor H, West Virginia
• Devil's Racecourse, Ft. Ritchie, Maryland
• Tombolo at St. Ninian's Isle, Shetland Islands, Scotland
• New Market limestone, plane polars
• Sediment from the Calvert Formation, Zone 4
• Edinburg Formation, showing Alleghanian cleavage, near Cedarville, Virginia
• Rockwell Formation concretion, side B
• Organ Mountains-Aguirre Springs
• Laminated Shale, Crossed Polars
• Cleavage in folded turbidites at Saligo Bay, Islay, Scotland.
• Rose Hill Formation / Tuscarora Formation contact
• (Annotated) laminated and faulted Tonoloway Formation
• Upper Gypsum Springs Formation - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Coccoliths and a Coccolithosphere in Classroom Chalk, 5245x
• Grand Canyon 1
• Igneous/sedimentary contact, Arran
• Biotite sand
• Calcite
• Rockfish Gap, Virginia
• Foreknobs Formation exposed on Rt. 50 west of Gore, Virginia
• Pt Lobos nonconformity
• Sykesville Formation, Chain Bridge Flats, DC
• Passage Creek NOT in flood
• Ghost boundaries in quartzite, plane polars
• Metavolcanic and metasedimentary mélange, Franciscan Complex, Pacifica, California
• Carlin Canyon Unconformity
• Leggetts Gap-Section 4
• Gigantoproductus giganteus fossils in Permian limestone, Arran, Scotland
• Hueco Tanks
• Volcaniclastic breccia from Mount St. Helens
• Wapiti Fm. Volcaniclastics - Cody, Wyoming
• Precipitation lamellae
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite TS-12
• Fusulinid-bearing Hueco Limestone from West Texas
• Dike cross-cutting Colonsay Group meta-sediments, Machir Beach, Islay, Scotland
• Spherulitic felsite dike, Shetland
• Permian sedimentary rocks near the site of Hutton's Unconformity, Lochranza, Arran, Scotland
• Sediment from Crabtree Creek, Massies Mill, Virginia
• Tilted, folded, intruded metamorphic rock, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample A
• Mylonite with well-developed foliation and lineation
• Grind of the Navir
• Fossil Mariopteris
• Fauquier Formation Rock Wall
• Porphyry
• Tonoloway Formation Faults (Wide View), Corridor H, West Virginia
• Soapstone
• Geologic map of the Devil's Fence quadrangle, Montana
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample O
• Physical Geology Mineral Lab Sample 10-12
• Amazonite in pegmatite 2
• Mudcracks
• Heavy mineral sediment from Pfeiffer Beach, California
• Shark teeth and whale vertebra
• Stromatolites, Helena Formation, near Crypt Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta
• Myvatn Overview from Dimmuborgir
• Physical Geology Mineral Lab, Sample Set 1
• A second view of the felsite intrusion
• Channeled Scabland with giant gravel bar, Pinto Ridge Road, Washington
• Lamprophyre dikes on the Billy Goat Trail
• Sediment from Wicklow Beach, Ireland
• Echinoid hemicidaris
• Andesite with aligned feldspar phenocrysts, Little Walker Caldera, California
• Sediment from the Black Sea off the coast of Zatoka, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine
• Grudaidh Formation (Durness Group) w/ two vogesite sills and two faults
• Unakite, Crossed Polars
• Mazon Creek Paleoplant
• Pipkrake garden
• Stutfield Glacier, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Miette Group hand sample
• Sedimentary Structure?
• Volcanic rocks exposed at Eshaness, Shetland
• Small-scale detachment fold in Foreknobs Formation
• Mineral Sample K; Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample M
• Therapod Tracks
• Chapman's Mill, Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
• Rockwell Formation diamictite, plane polars
• Coprolite
• Beach cobbles, Mill Bay, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
• Spring Forest, Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park
• Chevron Folds - Scaglia Rossa Formation, Le Marche Italy
• Bergton Thrust Fault - Greenland Gap Group
• Graphite Schist, Plane Polars
• Lower Mississippian Rockwell Formation roadcut on Corridor H, West Virginia
• Slate and phyllite
• North Attleboro PetSmart Outcrop - View 1
• Southward Facing Quarry Wall (Close Up), Corridor H
• Sand from Berufjörður, Iceland
• Migmatite exposed at Sea Point, South Africa
• Bloomsburg Formation sandstone
• Alma, Wisconson-Minnesota
• Alethopteris
• Chesapecten middlesexensis, interior
• Sand from the Sea of Siam, Pattaya, Thailand
• Stretched belemnite fossil, Swiss Alps
• Azurite and malachite
• The nascent NOVA Annandale rock garden, as of May 2012
• Pisolites in Tansil Formation limestone, Whites City, New Mexico
• View across the Barite Valley to outcrops of the Mapepe Formation of the Fig Tree Group
• Sediment from Roanoke River, Roanoke, VA
• Unconformity east of Portrush
• Cabin Creek Scarp - Hebgen Lake, Montana
• Sediment Deposited by Hurricane Camille, Nelson County, Virginia
• Pipe Rock, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Proterozoic basement rock, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Blue kyanite
• Passage Creek in Flood II
• Sediment from Loch Assynt, NW Highlands, Scotland
• Foliated dike in foliated tonalite, cobblestone in the streets of Washington, DC
• Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #2
• Rift Valley, Iceland
• Aragonite
• Apatite
• Metamorphosed, boudinaged bedding of the Mather Gorge Formation
• Massanutten Sandstone exposed on Fort Valley Road
• Hampshire Formation strata
• Grand Teton range 1
• Diptera tipulidae 2380b
• Tephra Blanket, Kilbourne Hole
• Andalusite
• Foreknobs Formation - Corridor H Needmore section 2
• Stromatoporoid
• Slickenfibers in serpentenite
• Wrecked Wrack
• Campus Andesite with xenolith
• Chesapeake Bay Plankton Tow, 3200x
• Mudcracks
• Orthoclase, Plane Polars
• Tamengo Formation
• Plumose structure, route 55, West Virginia
• Mechum River Formation meta-diamictite
• Contact between volcanics and sedimentary host rocks, Kinkell Ness, Scotland
• Fossil Stigmaria
• Mineral Sample A
• Marble, Crossed Polars
• Old Red Sandstone, cliff at Dunbar, Scotland
• Pillow basalt from Thetford Ophiolite, Quebec, Canada
• Nlaka Hill S1 2013-05-30
• Ammonites in contact-metamorphosed Lias, Portrush, Northern Ireland
• Unknown Sedimentary Rock Sample
• Sedimentary Structure?
• Double-Terminated Quartz Crystals
• Sediment from Clear Creek in Colorado
• Setters Schist
• Phyllite, Plane Polars
• Graphite, 3330x
• Chalcopyrite
• Dike contact exposed at Kildonan, Arran, Scotland
• Sediment from Port Charlotte, Islay, Scotland
• Glauconite Sand Grain from Canoa, Ecuador, 3265x
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample O
• Beach sand from Lake Ontario in Canada
• Syncline in Helderberg Group
• Maidens Gneiss, Crossed Polars
• Amphibolite, Plane Polars
• Holey Chesapecten jeffersonius
• Beach Sand from Punta Uva, Puerto Viejo, Limon, Costa Rica
• Paleoproterozoic gneiss, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Calcite in Precambrian-Aged Amygdaloidal Basalt, Crossed Polars
• North Attleboro PetSmart Outcrop - View 2
• Mt. Kidd, Kananaskis Trail, Alberta, Canada
• Ashy sediment from Creek Trail in Sabino Canyon, Arizona
• Oxidation and reduction in Hampshire Formation sedimentary rock
• Boudin mouth and neck, Lewisian gneiss exposed east of Durness, Scotland
• Turbidites at Garrapata Beach, Big Sur, California
• Quartzite of the Weverton Formation, Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
• Coleoptera 1030b
• Wavellite on quartzite
• Sediment from Kinkell Ness, Scotland
• Ammonite
• Athabasca Glacier with prominent lateral moraines
• Dolomitic limestone
• Glacial striations on a pebble, Rockwell Formation diamictite, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Helen Lake stromatolites and Cirque Peak, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
• Arsenopyrite
• Mather Gorge, Great Falls, Maryland
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample K
• Banded Iron Formation
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample H
• Conemaugh Formation sandstone
• Corundum
• Quarry in Rockfish Conglomerate
• McDonald Creek, Glacier National Park
• Micrite
• Granite, Wind River Canyon, Wyoming
• Stromatolite, Castner Marble, Franklin Mountains, Texas
• Castile Fm. Evaporites
• Muscovite, Crossed Polars
• Sediment from Tennessee Valley Beach, California
• Stromatolitic Bonahaven Dolomite, south of Bunnahabhain, Islay, Scotland
• Augen gneiss, Transition Zone, Shetland
• Cleavage refraction in Chancellor slate, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Thoroughfare Gap Weverton Formation, upper section
• Stylolites in Tonoloway Formation limestone
• Muscovite, Plane Polars
• Plant fossils in the Allegheny Formation
• Paw Paw Tunnel, upstream exit
• Mahantango Formation
• Oolitic Limestone
• Bryozoan-rich limestone
• Sediment from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample Y
• Muscovite, 2800x
• Castner Marble
• Carters Grove, Eastern exposure
• Passage Creek NOT in flood
• Conglomerate with Hematite Cement, Crossed Polars
• Pyrites with twin fibrous "tails" or "beards"
• Quarry, Old Route 55, West Virginia
• Tonalite with cross-cutting veins, DC cobblestone
• Devonian Shale (#1), South Branch of the Potomac River, West Virginia
• Mole Hill basalt
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample L1
• Buck Reef Chert
• Hell's Half Acre, Wyoming
• Amphibolite, Crossed Polars
• Chlorite slickensides
• Ernietta Hill
• Calcite and [?] precipitated on gneiss used as aquarium decoration, face 2 of 3
• Sand from Miami, Florida
• Grand Canyon from Pima Point
• Lepidodendron
• Leopard Rock of the Beartooth Highway
• View SSW from Duncan Knob, George Washington National Forest, Virginia
• Massanutten Sandstone with trace fossils
• Sediment from North Clear Creek, Colorado
• Strobilus cone fossil
• Diptera tipulidae 2227a
• Pisolith-rich Grainstone, Tansill Formation(?), Whites City, New Mexico
• Chert
• Port Askaig Diamictite, Islay, Scotland
• Mudchip rip-up clasts in argillite of varying oxidation states and quartzite of the Grinnell Formation
• Crinoid calyx
• Cliff's at Portuguese Beach, Mendocino, CA
• Coal, Conemaugh Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Granitic dikes in granite
• Portrush Sill, view #1
• Skolithos
• Beryl
• Devil's Racecourse, Ft. Ritchie, Maryland
• Evaporite texture in Tonoloway Formation
• Dismembered, folded sandstone body from Corridor H, WV, crossed polars
• Obsidian trio
• Crossbedded sandstone
• Sediment from the end of the swimming run at Blue Spring State Park, Orange City, Florida
• Archean-aged garnetiferous basement rock from Montana
• Contact between two dikes, Blackwaterfoot, Arran, Scotland
• Folded and Cleaved Martinsburg Slate, Page County, Virginia
• Lunar Sample 12005 Thin Section of Olivine Basalt, Crossed Polars
• Cristo Rey: Mesilla Valley Formation - contact with Campus Andesite
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample P
• Miette Group slate, Trans-Canada Highway and Icefields Parkway junction, Banff National Park
• McKenzie Pass Lava Flow
• Klamath Basin
• Porphyritic andesite
• Conglomerate with Calcite Cement and Hematite Cement, Plane Polars
• Sediment from Tickle Cove, Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Allegheny Formation siltstone, crossed polars
• Sedimentary and diagenetic features in the Conemaugh Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Paleovalley in the Stoer Group / Lewisian Gneiss unconformity surface.
• Trilobite, Devonian of Morocco
• Stretched belemnite fossil
• Coastal ecology, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine
• Unknown Sedimentary Rock Sample
• Lower Martinsburg Formation outcrop at Funk Road and Route 11, south of Strasburg, Virginia
• Spiral graptolite
• Pegmatite, Red Bluff Granite
• Pyrite in greenschist
• Sediment from the Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) River, Myanmar
• Anorthosite, Adirondack Mountains, New York
• Sediment from Suromar Rio, Naguabo, Puerto Rico
• Monocline in Hampshire Formation
• Ammonoid
• Serpulids
• Terminal Ediacaran trace fossils
• Portrush: hornfels (contact metamorphosed Lias shale) above Portrush gabbroic/doleritic sill
• Wisconsin Red Granite
• Lewisian gneiss exposed near Durness
• Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
• Kilbourne Hole - East Crater Wall
• Fossil Fish
• Brachiopods and crinoid stems in Mississippian-aged Reynolds Limestone
• Sedimentary Structure?
• Rhyolite
• Archean-aged phyllite, Ontario, Canada
• Passage Creek NOT in flood
• Skolithos
• Argillaceous sandstone
• Upper Jurassic Morrison Fm. - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Buck Reef Chert, Barberton Greenstone Belt
• Mylonite / "LS Tectonite"
• Andalusite in Slate, Plane Polars
• Weverton Formation exposed at Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
• Diatomaceous earth
• Cribratina duo
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample S
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample Z
• Boar's Tusk and Killpecker Dunes, Wyoming
• View SSW from Duncan Knob, George Washington National Forest, Virginia
• Kink bands in Dalradian schist, Shetland
• Massanutten sandstone slab with trace fossils
• Graphite
• Marine microfossils
• 1959 Earthquake slide and Lake in Montana
• Beekmantown Group Limestone, Harrisonburg, Virginia
• Marble
• Paleoproterozoic gneiss from Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Martinsburg Formation exposed at Staunton, Virginia
• Oolitic hematite
• Graded bed in the Martinsburg Formation
• Migmatite exposed at Sea Point, South Africa
• "Breccia Wall," Antietam Formation, SE Boyce quadrangle, Virginia
• Calvert Formation, Scientists' Cliffs, Maryland (#2 of 8)
• Hampshire Formation sandstone, crossed polars
• Mudcracks from the Belt Supergroup
• Blueschist-grade folded metachert+shale
• View southwest across Church Bay, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
• Strained trilobite
• Ronas Hill Granite, Plane Polars
• Evaporite texture in Tonoloway Formation
• Rockfish Quarry 2
• Diorite, Crossed Polars
• Diorite, Crossed Polars
• Conglomerate with Calcite Cement and Hematite Cement, Crossed Polars
• Old Man of Hoy
• Sand from Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California
• Monocline in Madison Group limestones, western Bighorn Range, Wyoming
• Azurite and malachite
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite TS-20
• Bow River Falls, Banff
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite P101A
• Geology Department Field Trip 2013
• Gypsum, var. Selenite, 3095x
• Ronas Hill Granite, Shetland
• Dimmuborgir, near Lake Mývatn, Iceland
• Lewisian gneiss with cross-cutting dikes
• Sediment from Kirby Cove, Marin County, California
• Staurolite
• Hogbacks - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Trilobite Asaphiscus wheeleri
• Heliophylum halli
• Evan Thomas Flood Wash
• Bow Lake and Bow Glacier
• Lake strata, Yesnaby Coast, Orkney
• Catoctin Formation greenstone, Rockfish Gap, Virginia
• Hornblende Sand Grain, 3265x
• Bermuda "Pink Sand" Foram, 1825x
• Red Leaf, Arkansas-Mississippi
• Gneiss, Clear Creek, Colorado
• Bartolome Island, Galapagos
• Grain from Suromar Rio, Naguabo, Puerto Rico, 3015x
• Amphibolite exposed on the Billy Goat Trail, Great Falls, Maryland
• Isognomon
• Kyanite
• Metamorphic cobbles on a beach on Fetlar
• Biotite
• Sediment from Creek Trail in Sabino Canyon, Arizona
• Antietam Formation (quartzite) breccia with iron and manganese oxide cement
• "Leopard rock" with contact zone
• Conemaugh Group, showing paleoslump and fluvial scour features, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Plaid Twinning in Microcline, Plane Polars
• Sand from Jumeira Beach, Dubai, UAE
• Schist trio
• West Boothbay Harbor, Maine
• "Talking Bears" Outcrop - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Folded Tonoloway, Looking South. 8-22-12
• Silurian-aged mudcracks
• Spherulitic felsite, Shetland
• Waterfall Formation boulder
• Buda Formation fold
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample K1
• Sediment from Blackbird Caye, Turneffe Atoll, Belize
• Pool at Hofsos, Iceland
• Outcrop of upturned Paleozoic strata on Highway 16
• Clay shale
• Foreknobs Formation - Baker section 2
• Chancellor Formation slate, near Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• "Dunbar Marble": Mississippian limestone chock full of rugose corals
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample S
• Petersburg Granite at James River State Park - Richmond, VA
• Microbially induced sedimentary structures, Barberton
• 15BSK005
• Garnet schist
• Ozark Cave
• Seneca Rocks
• Garnetiferous schist, Wrangell, Alaska
• Veach Gap Anticline 2
• Quartz: variations on a theme
• Faulted strata
• Astrhelia palmata
• Sacagawea Cirque
• Sheared gabbro
• Volcaniclastics from the volcanic highlands near Grímsstaðir, Iceland
• Silt shale
• Chesapecten middlesexensis
• Bermuda "Pink Sand" Foram, 2580x
• Sand Grain from Kirby Cove, Marin Headlands, California at 3425x
• Precambrian-Aged Castle Danger Amygdaloidal Basalt, Plane Polars
• Meta-diamictite of the Mechum River Formation, Sharp Top, Virginia
• Faulted granite dike, Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC
• Banded iron formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Waldron, Arkansas quadrangle
• Augite, Crossed Polars
• Paleoslump and Fluvial Incision Structures, Conemaugh Group, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Confusion Hill overview GigaPan #1
• Peridotite from the Josephine Ophiolite, California
• Rutilated quartz with ilmenite
• Differential weathering in Nolichucky Formation
• "Carbonatite?"
• Graptolites
• Slabs of Brallier Formation shale, Paw Paw Tunnel
• Sphenopsids
• Diorite
• Volcanic arch at Dimmuborgir, near Lake Mývatn, Iceland
• Sulfur
• Unconformity near Portrush, Northern Ireland
• Massanutten Sandstone
• Barrier Lake, Mt. Baldy, and the Kananaskis Valley
• Disconformity, Hungary
• Sea stacks along the coast of Shetland north of Eshaness
• Olivine-rich volcaniclastic sand and shell fragments, Kaua'i, Waimea, Hawai'i
• Graptolites
• Porphyry, Kinkell Ness, Scotland
• Zoophycos
• Catoctin greenstone
• Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline 1
• Petrified wood
• Angular Unconformity, west of El Paso, Texas
• Diptera tipulidae 931
• Ordovician Oneota Dolomite 1
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample C
• Klingle Valley metaconglomerate, Laurel Formation, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, DC
• Mineral Sample P
• Evaporite texture, Tonoloway Formation
• Oolitic limestone
• Fascinating Folded Float under Route 15 Bridge at Point of Rocks, Maryland
• Ooids
• Diaphragmus brachiopod fossils from the Reynolds Limestone member of the Mauch Chunk Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Calamites
• Sand from the Base of St. Mary's Glacier, Colorado
• Ouray Ampitheater
• Sheared Dalradian metaturbidites w/ dike tip at Lochranza, Arran, Scotland
• Green quartzite
• Rugose coral calyces
• Hornblende muscovite schist
• Ozark Cave 2
• Voltaire, North Dakota quadrangle
• Ball and pillow load-sag structures in Graafwater Formation
• Gneiss
• View to the north of Old Rag Mountain
• Sediment from Corfu, Greece
• Pond at the south end of the Roonivoolin Trail, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland, U.K.
• Gneiss from Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Mt. Stephen, Yoho National Park, Canada
• Sediment from Clear Creek, Colorado
• Sediment from Squantum Head, Quincy, Massachusetts
• Skolithos in the Hampshire Formation
• Volcanic bomb
• Cross-cutting dikes in gabbroic host rock in Georgetown Intrusive Suite.
• Sand from Paphos, Cyprus
• Brain coral
• Martinsburg Formation, Millner Road (near Deer Rapids Road), Shenandoah County, Virginia
• Cape Granite exposed at Sea Point, South Africa
• Ammonoid
• Hampshire Formation sandstone, plane polars
• Georgetown Intrusive Suite, Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC
• Geologic Map of the Devil Slide Quadrangle, Hot Springs County, Wyoming
• Grand Canyon - Hopi Point Overlook 180 Degree Panorama View
• Marcellus Shale, crossed polars
• "Cub Sandstone" (Uppermost Martinsburg Formation), near Catherine Furnace, Virginia
• Quartz pebble metaconglomerate (quartzite) of the Silurian Tuscarora Formation, West Virginia
• Sand from Lake Erie at Ashtabula, Ohio
• White chalcedony
• Unnamed Syncline - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Boninite, New Calendonia
• Graywacke from the rock walls high above Siccar Point, Scotland
• Harpers Formation exposed at Glasscock Gap, Virginia (Outdoor Lab)
• Sediment from North Clear Creek, Colorado
• Sediment from Sarandë, Albania
• Enstatite, 3095x
• Foreset beds in gravel dune complex near Soap Lake
• Oriskany sandstone, plane polars
• Lava Lake, Montana
• Gneiss and migmatite, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Cristo Rey: Mesilla Valley Formation - folds
• Gigantoproductus giganteus productid brachiopod fossils in Permian limestone, Arran, Scotland
• Striarca fossil
• Shatter cones, Vredefort impact structure, South Africa
• Unknown Sedimentary Sample
• Mylonite, Moine Thrust, Eriboll region, NW Highlands, Scotland
• Helderberg Formation chert, crossed polars
• Epidotized fault contact between two gneisses
• Granite dike and mundy contact
• Breccia in Antietam Formation, Swift Shoals 2
• Antietam Breccia 3
• Ammonites in contact-metamorphosed Lias, Portrush, Northern Ireland
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample U
• Foram from Punta Uva, Puerto Viejo, Limon, Costa Rica, 4295x
• Crinoid fossil
• Muscovite staurolite schist
• Corundum
• Blastoid, top view
• Overlook from High Point Mountain- April 9th 2012
• LiDAR-based digital elevation map of the Timberville, VA quadrangle
• Chlorite slickensides from Paw Paw Bends
• Sand from the Mediterranean Sea at Torremolinos, Spain
• Cushendun Conglomerate of the Cross Slieve Group, Cushendun, Northern Ireland
• Wall of Makanda Sandstone, Giant City State Park, Illinois
• Blastoid, side view
• Folds exposed at Riggins, Idaho (annotated #2)
• Nelsonite
• "The Ampitheater" in Hyalite Canyon, Gallatin Range, Montana
• Bivalves
• Helderberg fault breccia contact
• Brecciated Antietam Formation
• Mahantango Formation, showing fossil brachiopod fauna
• Chromite olivine cumulate, Stillwater Complex, Montana
• Pyroxene phenocrysts from Mt. Vesuvius
• Rounded cobble of intrusion breccia
• Chancellor Group showing deformation, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• LiDAR view of the Harpers Ferry region, West Virginia / Maryland / Virginia
• The Nose - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Breccia boulder
• Foreknobs Formation - Baker section 5
• Meta-komatiite
• Coastal Plain fossil smorgasbord
• Pteridinium from Farm Aar
• Rockwell Formation diamictite, plane polars
• Storm deposits in Tonoloway Formation limestone
• Precambrian-aged Castle Danger Amgygdaloidal Basalt
• Greenland Gap Group Shale - Bergton, VA
• Gabbro
• "Breccia Wall," Antietam Formation, SE Boyce quadrangle, Virginia
• Stretched belemnite fossil, Swiss Alps
• Foram from Andros Island, Bahamas, 2900x
• Orthoclase at 1825x
• Cloudina graveyard
• S-C Mylonite
• Titanite
• Felsic spherulite from Shetland
• Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia
• Cape Granite
• Blue quartz in weathered granitoid
• Enstatite, Crossed Polars
• Shale
• Buttress Unconformities
• Fusulinids
• Foreknobs sandstone, plane polars
• Patuxent River Tributary Sediment at 5020x
• Unakite from Vesuvius, VA
• Folded glacial outwash sediments
• Paradise road North side east of bridge shot 5
• Ostracode from St. Ninian's Isle Tombolo, Scotland, at 2495x
• Storm deposit in Reedsville Formation
• Graptolite fossils in the Martinsburg Formation
• Bloomsburg Formation outcrop
• Stromatoporoid
• Gneiss and migmatite, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Hueco Group Tom Mays State Park El Paso TX
• Castner Marble roadcut in Franklin Mountains
• Unknown Sedimentary sample
• Placopecten clintonius interior
• Rift at Þingvellir, Iceland
• Albite in Diorite, Plane Polars
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample K
• Ash from Mount St. Helens
• Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #4
• Lower Mississppian Rockwell Formation roadcut on Corridor H, West Virginia
• Giant eurypterid trackway, near St. Andrews, Scotland
• Dyed agate
• Angular unconformity, Death Valley National Park
• "Bermuda Pink Sand" with Forams
• Tremolite
• Gastropod shells
• Aquia Creek Sandstone (2)
• Diptera tipulidae 2223b
• Cross beds in komatiitic ash deposits
• Folded turbidites at Saligo Bay, Islay, Scotland
• The Fossil Forest, near Lulworth Cove, Dorset
• Meta-ignimbrite of the Catoctin Formation, near Linden, Virginia
• Sheridan College dinosaur quarry, south of Buffalo, Wyoming
• Wills Mountain, The Narrows, Cumberland, Maryland
• Pseudocraters
• Unakite
• Outcrop along Highway 15, Oman
• Clastic dike within Castner Marble, Franklin Mountains, Texas
• Son Cocó Rock Avalanche (La avalancha de rocas de Son Cocó), Alaró, Mallorca, by CarDec
• Cross-bedding in Massanutten Sandstone
• Chimney Rock - Front View
• Port Askaig Tillite
• Kuruna clast with stromatolite
• Sand from Bromley Brook, Manchester, Vermont
• Gravel deposits on Adams Mill Road NW, Washington, DC
• Unknown Sedimentary Rock Sample
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample Z
• Sediment from Kotor, Montenegro
• Exposure of Catoctin Metabasalt at Point of Rocks, Maryland
• Cairn Formation, Bow River Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Gravel deposits of the Salmon River, near Riggins, Idaho
• Sand from the Delaware River, Delaware
• Striped Rock Granite with fractured feldspars
• Buda Formation Fold
• Giant ooids
• Confusion Hill detail shot 1
• Sandstone blocks near Seneca Quarry, Maryland
• Skolithos
• Fauquier Formation Outcrop
• Huckleberry Ridge Tuff Angular Unconformity near Gardiner, Montana
• Corona Heights Fault, San Francisco
• Serpentine Marble, Plane Polars
• Red cross-beds (annotated)
• Whipcove Anticline, Corridor H. 8-22-12
• Whipcove Anticline - faulted eastern limb
• Sand from Veach Gap, George Washington National Forest, Virginia
• Spinifex texture in komatiite, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Asterotheca miltoni
• Curly graptolites
• Faulted Tonoloway
• Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - folds and faults
• Swift Dam anticline, looking west
• Porphyritic Andesite, Plane Polars
• Lapilli from near Chaupi, Ecuador
• Oriskany sandstone, crossed polars
• Flat lying lake strata, Yesnaby, Orkney, U.K.
• Subhedral halite
• The rift at Þingvellir, Iceland
• Shawangunk Conglomerate, Pennsylvania
• Moore House Member - West
• Tonoloway Formation - Corridor H, east of Baker, WV
• Ball and pillow
• Tuscarora Sandstone exposed at Hanging Rock Anticline, West Virginia
• Mudcracks
• Broad Run
• Hutton's Unconformity, Arran, Scotland
• Solution seam sample
• Mineral Sample O
• Tourmaline Schist, Crossed Polars
• Diptera tipulidae 1215
• Sediment from Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy
• Massanutten Sandstone
• Conemaugh Group, showing paleoslump and fluvial scour features, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Kilbourne Hole, detail B
• Slate, Plane Polars
• Euomphalus fossil
• Weathered basalt near West Light, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland, U.K.
• Dike in diabase
• View over the Komati Valley
• Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island quadrangle
• Rose quartz
• Sugarloaf LiDAR
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample J
• Graywacke, Crossed Polars
• Smoo Cave
• Weverton Formation at Outdoor Lab (Biscuit Mountain)
• Crinoid columnal horizon
• Stromatolites, Helena Formation, near Crypt Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta
• Outcrop on Route 28 near Quincy, Washington
• Arctomys siltstone and shale, southeast of Cirque Peak, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Diatomaceous earth
• K/T Boundary exposed at Gubbio, Italy
• Milldale Antietam Breccia
• "Bookshelfing" style boudinage
• Trimmers Rock
• Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
• Ulster White Limestone ("The Chalk") with belemnite fossil, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland (U.K.)
• Proterozoic basement rock, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite 7
• Anticline / syncline pair, new New Route 55, west of Moorefield, West Virginia
• Head of Wind River Canyon, Wyoming
• Channeled Scabland with subaqueous gravel bars, Wilson Creek, Washington
• Two sets of kink bands in phyllitic metasiltstone
• Rockwell Formation diamictite, crossed polars
• Carmel Valley River Deposits
• Annotated folded Foreknobs, Gore, Virginia
• Sediment from Lake Ashi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
• Kyanite, 3175x
• Sediment from Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island, Florida
• Patuxent River Sediment at 5245x
• Folded gneiss
• Murri Anticline and Oman Ophiolite
• Coiba Mica - Coiba Mare cave system (here is the Coiba Mare entry), Apuseni Mountains, Transylvania, Romania
• Mylonite (felsic) from the Dover Fault, Newfoundland
• Sediment from Ten Mile Dunes, Ft. Bragg, California
• Mariopteris
• Beach sand from Hapuna Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii
• Reaction rim
• Mariopteris
• Castner Marble
• Diamictite of the Gaskiers Formation
• Garnet Mica Schist, Plane Polars
• Sediment from the St. Ninian's Isle Tombolo, Scotland
• Looking south from Waterton
• Sea arch, southern Iceland
• Microbially-Induced Sedimentary Structures, Stoer Group, Clachtoll, Scotland, Plane Polars
• Microbially-Induced Sedimentary Structures, Stoer Group, Clachtoll, Scotland, Crossed Polars
• Chlorite Slickensides, 3455x
• Patuxent River Tributary Sediment at 3355x
• Bishop Tuff F2 Ashfall
• Brallier Shale on NEW New WV 55 (version 2)
• Volcaniclastic sediment, Kirkjufjara Beach, Iceland
• Talc, Crossed Polars
• Fossil Annularia
• Scleractinian coral
• Teredo, edge-on
• Siccar Point, Scotland
• Sedimentary Structure?
• Agglomerate, Eshaness, Shetland, U.K.
• Beartooth Highway
• Bliss Sandstone
• Devil Canyon Overlook, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Wyoming
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample J
• Conglomerate
• Andalusite
• Microbially-induced sedimentary structures in Stoer Group, Clachtoll, Scotland
• Sediment from Myrtle Creek, Myrtle Beach, Del Norte County, California
• Talc tremolite schist, crossed polars
• Mechum River Formation meta-diamictite
• Precambrian-Aged Castle Danger Amygdaloidal Basalt, Crossed Polars
• Epidosite, Crossed Polars
• Granite
• Kilbourne Hole, detail A
• Conococheague Formation at Mulberry Run, showing stromatolites
• Absaroka volcanic breccia
• Bishop Tuff
• Mylonite near Eriboll, Scotland
• Coal
• Bluestone Limestone, Carrier Library Exterior, James Madison University
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• The Leesburg Conglomerate at Ida Lee Park
• Hornblende, 1950x
• Martinsburg Formation
• Ammonite showing ammonitic sutures
• Sand from Al Madam, Sharjah, UAE
• Blastoid, top view
• Arkose
• Westward Facing Quarry Wall (Wide View), Corridor H
• Tuscarora sandstone, plane polars
• Cascade Canyon
• Mylonite, South Mountain metamorphic core complex, Phoenix, Arizona
• Serpulids
• Amygdular basalt
• Mt. Louis, Banff National Park, Alberta
• Rugose coral
• Alabaster
• Fold
• Alluvium and soil profiles
• Augite, Plane Polars
• Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia
• L-S tectonite, Phoenix Mountains, Arizona
• L-tectonite, side view
• Diptera tipulidae 043
• Conglomerate of Cerro Toro Formation, Chilean Patagonia
• Mineral Sample I
• Deer Mountain Tephra Unconformity
• West Lobe Quarry, West Virginia
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample I
• Sediment from the Calvert Formation, Base of Zone 10
• Kyanite quartzite, plane polars
• West Sheep Canyon - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Argentinian folds
• Flint
• Pyrite-bearing phyllite, Islay, Scotland
• Sulphur Springs, Hillsborough County, Florida quadrangle
• Pennsylvanian Alleghanian Formation
• Goðafoss; lower gorge, Iceland.
• Physical Geology Minerals Lab Sample 2a
• Glycymeris trio
• Physical Geology Mineral Lab Sample 10-4
• Augen Gneiss, Crossed Polars
• Microfiber Pollution in Sediment from Sandy Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Black Sea Foram, 2490x
• Sheridan College dinosaur quarry
• Ammonite
• Foreknobs Formation- Baker Section 3
• Mylonite
• Sediment from Wadi Al Khames, Al Hajar Mountains, Oman
• Graded bedding and desiccation cracks in Tonoloway Formation limestone
• Archean/Cambrian nonconformity at Wind River Canyon, Wyoming
• Triassic red beds, near Kildonan, Arran, Scotland
• Mylonite, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Phyllite with garnet
• Footwall scarp, Thingvellir, Iceland
• Limestone quarry on Old Route 55, West Virginia
• Shear zone in gabbro
• Sediment from Cushendun, Northern Ireland
• Blueschist (fine-grained; ~phyllite)
• Diptera 2043a
• Heavy mineral sands in planar laminations
• Lunar Basalt Sample 12005, Plane Polars
• Ptygmatic folding in gneiss
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample M
• Trace fossils in green siltstone
• Sand from the Cache La Poudre River, Colorado
• Sillimanite in Sillimanite-Garnet Gneiss, Crossed Polars
• Schist, Wind River Canyon, Wyoming
• Taconic Angular Unconformity near Catskill, NY
• Sediment from Moormans River, Virginia
• Andalusite in Slate, Crossed Polars
• Scenic Drive Formation fossil layer
• Metatuff from the Catoctin Formation, South Mountain, Maryland
• Page Valley, Virginia
• K/T boundary. Gubbio, Italy #4
• Waterfall along the eastern edge of Þingvellir, 75%
• "Blue granite" from Brazil
• Channels in the Hampshire Formation
• Conglomerate with Hematite Cement, Plane Polars
• Mineral Sample Set L
• Port Askaig Diamictite, Islay, Scotland
• Recumbent anticline in the Edinburg Formation, Page County, Virginia
• Fossils and storm deposits in Tonoloway limestone
• En echelon tension gashes in quartz arenite
• Limonite
• Calvert Formation, Scientists' Cliffs, Maryland (#8 of 8)
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite D-6
• One nautiloid, one ammonoid
• Tourmaline in Lepidolite
• Talc tremolite schist, plane polars
• Folded calc-silicate
• Geologic Map of the Wind Gap Quadrangle, Northampton and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania
• Lake Wales, Florida quadrangle
• Sandstone roll-up feature in the Stac Fada Member of the Clachtoll Formation of the Stoer Group, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• Igneous intrusions in gneiss, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Oolitic Limestone, Crossed Polars
• Catoctin Formation metabasalt showing amygdules and asbestos veins
• Natural Bridge, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Annandale, Virginia quadrangle
• Curwensville Reservoir
• Chippewa Falls (Wide)
• Fossil Acer dacycarpoides
• Basement complex, MP 16.3 on I-66 (westbound), east of Linden, Virginia
• Schist
• Konnarock Formation
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample R
• Microcline, 2940x
• Mudcracks in micrite
• Marble, Plane Polars
• Dewatering structure (?)
• Fossil Alethopteris decurrens
• WV Rt 55 Whipcove Anticline
• The Backlimb - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Amygdules in Catoctin Formation
• Polysynethic Twinning in Albite, Crossed Polars
• Felsite intrusion, Iceland
• Sand from the Hudson River at Stuyvesant, New York
• Anthony Gap
• Chert
• Folded gneiss from Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• Mineral Sample J
• Rocky Islands
• Mylonite
• Brallier and Lower Foreknobs-Baker Section 1
• Flat pebble conglomerate, Gros Ventre Formation
• Chlorite porphyroblasts in Popes Head Formation schist
• Sodium-rich Plagioclase Feldspar at 1915x
• Laminated and faulted Tonoloway Formation
• Foreknobs formation- Corridor H Needmore section 3
• Polished green porphyritic metavolcanic from St. Anthony, Newfoundland
• Indiana limestone at the Duke Ellington Bridge, Washington, DC
• Aragonite with right-angle twinning
• Phlogopite
• Ooids and rip-up clasts
• Beryl, Plane Polars
• Stretched beach cobbles, Funzie Bay, Fetlar
• Rutile
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample O
• Lower Rainbow Canyon, Death Valley National Park
• Slumped boulder (serpentinite colluvium), Marshall's Beach, San Francisco
• Gunflint Formation SCHW 39A
• Southern Franklin Mountains
• Conemaugh Formation Sandstone
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample A
• Slaty sandstone of Tickle Cove, Newfoundland
• Folded turbidites at Saligo Bay, Islay, Scotland
• Physical Geology Mineral Lab Sample 2b
• Graded bedding in the Mechum River Formation, Sharp Top
• Helderberg limestone, Corridor H, West Virginia
• LIDAR Weverton Formation - Blue Ridge front, Virginia
• Fucoid Beds, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Conemaugh Formation sandstone
• Klamath Faults 2
• Tuscarora sandstone, crossed polars
• Encrinal Limestone, Plane Polars
• Chesapecten middlesexensis
• Coquina
• Laminated Rockwell Formation diamictite
• Sediment from the Moray Coast, Northeast Scotland
• Recumbent anticline in the Edinburg Formation, Page County, Virginia
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite TS-15
• Biotite
• Patuxent River Sediment at 3035x
• Unknown Sedimentary Rock
• Chlorite Schist, Plane Polars
• Jackson, Michigan quadrangle
• Scenic Overlook, Looking West, West Virginia
• Harpers Formation, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
• Orthoclase, Crossed Polars
• Faults, near Guadalupe Mountains National Park
• Bermuda "Pink Sand" Foram, 2415x
• Differential weathering
• Garnet schist
• Amygdules in Catoctin Formation metabasalt
• Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline 2
• Augite
• Stylolite in Helderberg Group limestone, West Virginia
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite 36
• Porphyroblastic schist, Glen Roy, Scotland
• Unknown Sediment Sample
• Lamprophyre dikes at Mather Gorge, Great Falls, Virginia
• Echinoid hemicidaris
• Diptera tipulidae 1076
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample I-B
• Porphyritic Rhyolite, Plane Polars
• Kaolinite
• Foram from Playa Rocosa De Piñones, Puerto Rico, at 3265x
• Grábrókarfell cinder cone, Iceland
• Frank Slide, Alberta, Canada
• Dike contact exposed at Kildonan, Arran, Scotland
• Sediment from Biscuit Run, Virginia
• Gabbro, Fetlar, Shetland
• Klingle Valley metaconglomerate, Laurel Formation, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, DC
• Annularia radiata
• Pine Butte, Montana
• Skolithos
• Eyjafjallajökull from Flotshlid
• Porphyroblastic Turkish blueschist
• Port Askaig Diamictite, Islay, Scotland
• Sunwapta Glacier
• Leptaena brachipod in fossiliferous limestone
• North Palisade, California
• Ultramylonite
• Sediment from Arches Provincial Park, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Second Generation Quartz, Billy Goat Trail
• Rock wall at Knockan Crag, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Marble and blueschist, Perissa, Greece
• Arthrophycus
• Nelsonite
• Cincinattian limestone with bryozoan fossils
• Granite exposed along the shore of Cabbage Island, Maine
• Sample D
• Folded Brallier Shale, south side of NEW New WV 55
• Annotated Anticline/Syncline Pair Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline WV55
• Confusion Hill detail shot 1 - Castner Formation
• Conglomerate of the Cerro Toro Formation, Chilean Patagonia
• Chimney Rock - Side View
• Dolomite, 2940x
• Antietam Breccia 2
• Siderite
• The French Thrust, Sun River Canyon, Montana
• Anorthite, Plane Polars
• Mineral sample D
• Vesuvius summit crater
• Dolomite, Crossed Polars
• Hueco Tanks
• Cathedral Peak granodiorite
• Rutile needles on biotite from Tioga Bentonite
• Fossiliferous sandstone
• Chromite olivine cumulate, Stillwater Complex, Montana
• Pennsylvanian Conemaugh Group - cropped
• "Casa del Snake" Outcrop - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Miette gritstone with outsized clast, southern Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park
• Granite slab, Haupt Gardens, Smithsonian Instituion, Washington, DC
• Coarse Sediment from Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
• Plagioclase feldspar
• Selenite
• Concentric Diatom in Choptank Formation Zone 13, 4870x
• Pyrrhotite
• Rugose coral calyces
• Travertine
• Diabase Cobble
• Eocene-aged herring Knightia eoceana
• Amygdular (amygdaloidal) Catoctin Formation meta-basalt, Blue Ridge, Virginia
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample E
• Icefield Centre, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Outcrop at the intersection of Fort Valley Road and Ramsey Road, Fort Valley, Virginia
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample X
• Lamprophyre dikes at Mather Gorge, Great Falls, Maryland
• Sub-Torridonian unconformity, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Folded and faulted rocks at Summerleaze Beach, Bude
• Shark Bay 1
• Martinsburg Formation at Guard Hill, north of Front Royal, Virginia
• Microbially-induced sedimentary structures, sandstone, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Mount Tom, California quadrangle
• Amphibolite
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample W
• Rodeo Beach Cliff
• Tombolo at St. Ninian's Isle, Shetland Islands, Scotland
• Paleoproterozoic gneiss, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Rockwell diamictite, plane polars
• Sediment from Spanish Bay Beach, CA
• Barite
• Metamorphic rocks exposed along the shore of Cabbage Island, Maine
• Rock salt (halite) from the Dead Sea, Israel
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite 29
• The Alex Bay Cut
• Great Unconformity, Wind River Canyon, Wyoming
• Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
• Fault breccia, Hebgen Lake Fault, Montana
• Chippokes Plantation, near visitor center
• Tuff, plane polars
• Carbla Beach 1
• Sediment from L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
• Sediment from the Great Rift Valley, Kenya
• Passage Creek Fauna of the Martinsburg Formation
• Blastoid, side view
• Kilbourne Hole, detail A
• Grundarfjörður and Kirkjufell, Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
• Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
• Meta-ignimbrite of the Catoctin Formation
• Brecciated and folded Montoya Group
• Pyritized brachiopods
• Garnetiferous metagraywacke, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, DC
• Hematite
• Magnesium Dendrites
• Feeder trace fossils
• Rift zone at Þingvellir, Iceland
• Palmyra, New York quadrangle
• Tuff, crossed polars
• S3 spherulite, Fig Tree Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt
• Sandstone and conglomerate
• Kilauea surface crevice debris
• Antietam Breccia 1
• Graptolite fossils, Martinsburg Formation
• Sediment from Dunbar, Scotland
• Shoshone Canyon - Cody, Wyoming
• Pyrolusite dendrites on a limestone joint surface
• Miette Group graded bedding
• Meteorite NW Africa 869, cut and polished face
• Wide Holland Point
• Bedrock Geology of Connecticut
• Beartrap Canyon, Montana
• Anorthosite, Adirondack Mountains, New York
• Sillimanite in kaolinite
• Satinspar
• Sheared eclogite, Italian Alps
• Folded garnetiferous beds, Leinster Granite aureole, Ireland
• Flat pebble conglomerate, Gros Ventre Formation
• Gainesville West, Florida quadrangle
• Foram from St. Ninian's Tombolo, Scotland, 1915x
• Glacial sculpting of basalt in Iceland
• Sandstone with Calcite Cement, Plane Polars
• Physical Geology Mineral Lab Sample 10-1
• Stockdale Kimberlite
• South lateral moraine, Athabasca Glacier (inside view)
• Garnet-bearing anorthosite
• Anticline/Syncline Pair, Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline, WV55
• Mudcracks and gypsum casts
• Mineral Sample Set N
• Keyser limestone, plane polars
• Weverton Formation at Outdoor Lab (Biscuit Mountain)
• Miette gritstone with scour incision and mudchip rip-up clast-rich strata, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Cincinattian limestone with lots of fossil components
• Amygdules from Precambrian-aged Castle Danger Basalt
• Mahantango limestone, crossed polars
• Marcellus Shale, plane polars
• Patagonian turbidites
• Harpers Formation, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
• Diabase at Conway Robinson State Forest, Virginia
• Klingle Valley metaconglomerate, Laurel Formation, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, DC
• Bishop Tuff
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite 22
• Dark conglomerate
• Sediment from Acadia National Park, Maine
• Syncline Tension Gashes, Corridor H
• Catoctin metabasalt at Point of Rocks, Maryland
• Maidens gneiss from the Goochland Terrane
• Klingle Valley metaconglomerate, Laurel Formation, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, DC
• Siliceous Oolite, Plane Polars
• Ignimbrite from Berufjörður, Iceland
• Shear zone in granite
• Augen gneiss
• Graptolites from Dob's Linn, Scotland
• Hampshire Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Fluorite, 3555x
• Anhydrite
• Classroom Chalk, Gypsum, 3665x
• Strophomenid brachiopods
• Foram from Bell's Beach near Victoria, Australia, 2870x
• Biotite Gneiss, Crossed Polars
• Folds exposed at Riggins, Idaho
• Felsic mylonite from the Dover Fault, Newfoundland
• El Capitan, West Texas
• Euhedral quartz, 1850x
• Mahantango limestone, plane polars
• Carbonized fern
• Amphibolite
• Rockwell Formation diamictite
• Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #3
• Sediment from Katsura River, Kyoto
• Balls Bluff Siltstone
• Dolomite, Plane Polars
• Coelacanth tail fossil from the Solite Quarry, Dan River Basin, Virginia
• Diptera tipulidae 840
• Fossiliferous siltstone (Martinsburg Fm?) with prolific fossils
• Labradorite
• Cairn Formation, Bow River Parkway, Alberta
• Miette Group Outcrop Ellipsoid
• Idaho Batholith contact
• Glycymeris trio
• Diptera 1105a
• Rock Gypsum, Crossed Polars
• Ignimbrite at Grind of the Navir
• Overlook, YMCA Camp Harrison, North Carolina
• Portrush: hornfels (contact metamorphosed Lias shale) above Portrush gabbroic/doleritic sill
• Marble Breccia, Plane Polars
• Stromatolites in driveway, Thunder Bay Ontario
• Portrush Sill, view #3
• New Market to Lincolnshire to Edinburg Limestones - Strasburg, VA
• Brachiopod fauna of the Nealmont Formation, Germany Valley, WVA
• Sand from the Atlantic Ocean, Point Smith, New York
• Crossbedding preserved in Popes Head schist
• Old Red Sandstone, headland at Dunbar, Scotland
• Duplex Structure in the Gastropod Limestone, Sandy Hollow, Montana
• Migmatite
• Calcite in Precambrian-Aged Amygdaloidal Basalt, Plane Polars
• Syncline Fold, Corridor H
• Pemaquid Point, Maine
• Sand from a dry wash near Block Mountain, Montana
• Precambrian / Cambrian Unconformity, Ogofgolchfa
• Ostracodes and brachiopods in Tonoloway Formation limestone
• Ostracodes in Tonoloway Formation limestone
• Chief Mountain, Montana
• Angular Unconformity, west of El Paso, Texas
• Helen Lake stromatolites, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Halite casts
• Small folds in the Foreknobs Formation, Rt. 50 west of Gore, Virginia
• Fossil Seed Fern
• Halite Crystals on Sand Grain, 4145x
• Cribratina
• Alluvial gravel, Bow River, Banff
• Gabbro, Fetlar, Shetland
• Diorite, Plane Polars
• Another Column at YMCA Camp Harrison, North Carolina
• Rainbow Canyon, Death Valley National Park
• Sediment from South Ari Atoll, Republic of Maldives
• Pteridinium from Farm Aar
• Desiccation cracks in the Silurian Tonoloway Formation
• Wills Mountain South End, Cumberland, Maryland
• Precambrian-Cambrian Unconformity at Putnam Station, NY
• Beach sand from the Puna Coast, Big Island, Hawaii
• Maidens Gneiss, Plane Polars
• Amygdular meta-basalt, western Sierra Nevada, California
• Quartz and smoky quartz
• Tuscarora Formation quartzite, showing iron oxide staining
• Graptolites
• Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry
• Sediment from Andros Island, Bahamas, at high tide
• Astrhelia palmata
• Microbially induced sedimentary structures, Barberton
• Sand from the Atlantic Ocean at Monte de Estoril, Portugal
• Salterella Grit, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Garnet
• Rockwell Formation concretion, side A
• Rock Wall, Fetlar, Shetland
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample C
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample H
• Anhedral Quartz, 3095x
• Shark Bay
• Ammonites in contact-metamorphosed Lias, Portrush, Northern Ireland
• Dismembered, folded sandstone body from Corridor H, WV, plane polars
• Portrush: hornfels (contact metamorphosed Lias shale) above Portrush gabbroic/doleritic sill
• Fault breccia in the Helderberg Group
• Tauz karst spring - the deepest underwater cave in Romania (view from south)
• Luray, Virginia quadrangle
• Moine Thrust at Knockan Crag, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Gooney Run Overlook, Shenandoah National Park
• Kirkjufell, Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
• Red Bluff Granite
• Sand from Calvert Cliffs State Park, Maryland
• Mudcrack Wall, limestone quarry on Old Route 55, West Virginia
• Sediment from Tangalle, Sri Lanka
• Bow Falls Tool Marks
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample H
• Malachite
• Unknown Sedimentary Sample
• Ultramylonite with well-developed foliation and lineation
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample G
• Mud cracks in Castner Marble argillite
• Painted Wall, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado
• Soft sediment deformation in Hampshire Formation
• Outcrop of Weverton Formation quartzite atop Biscuit Mountain, Pond Mountains (South of Thoroughfare Gap), Virginia
• Sediment from Mill Creek, Fort Valley, Virginia, USA
• Sediment from Big Rocky Run, Centreville, Virginia
• Gypsum from Zone 4 of the Calvert Formation, 5080x
• Southern Pinnacle - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Klingle Valley metaconglomerate, Laurel Formation, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, DC
• Rippled Eldon Formation
• Fossiliferous Limestone, Plane Polars
• Anthracite
• Bedding / cleavage relationships in Chancellor Group slates, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Sediment from Ronasvoe, Shetland, Scotland
• Cottonwood Creek; Boise, Idaho
• Folded metamorphic rocks exposed on C&O Canal
• Sediment from Jenner, CA
• Zoophycos
• Rutile, Plane Polars
• Arkose, Plane Polars
• Magnetite
• Unknown Igneous Rock Sample
• Lewisian gneiss exposed near Durness, Scotland
• Sediment from Scientists' Cliffs, Maryland
• Sediment from the Choptank Formation, Zone 13
• The Hogback Hoodoo - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Catoctin amygdules
• Plant fossils in the Allegheny Formation
• New Market limestone, crossed polars
• Till
• Basaltic cliffs, Roonivoolin Trail, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland, U.K.
• Fuchsite
• Dalradian phyllite from Trondra, Shetland
• Belle Isle and James River Park, Richmond, Virginia
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample P
• Sediment from Korčula, Croatia
• Swift Dam, Montana
• Brachiopod fauna of the Nealmont Formation, Germany Valley, West Virginia
• Root Casts in Shale, Corridor H
• Gabbro, Crossed Polars
• Old Red Sandstone, cliff at Dunbar, Scotland
• Rocky Islands from the towpath
• Scoria
• Brachiopod fauna of the Nealmont Formation, Germany Valley, West Virginia
• Grus
• Contorted Columns
• Massanutten Sandstone
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• Barite horizon within Mapepe Formation, Fig Tree Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Barberton komatiites in outcrop
• Sediment from Kirby Cove, Marin County, CA
• Diamond fossils in limestone
• Pseudotachylyte from Asbestos Mountain, CA, Plane Polars
• Lunar Basalt Sample 12002, Plane Polars
• Pyritized brachiopods
• Martinsburg Formation exposed at Staunton, Virginia
• Passage Creek: not in flood
• The Clydesdale Fault, Washington, DC
• Cobble of amygdaloidal basalt from Precambrian-aged Castle Danger Formation
• Sand from Vista Point, Del Norte County, California
• Trilobite Elrathia kingi
• Mill Bay, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
• Hymenoptera 1121
• Lincolnshire limestone, plane polars
• Paw Paw Tunnel, downstream exit
• View across the Barite Valley
• Hornblende
• Allegheny Formation chert, crossed polars
• Rt. 50 cut, Mt. Pleasant Syncline, east limb lower section
• Graded bed in Tonoloway Formation
• Serpentinite melange, Marshall's Beach, San Francisco
• Sand from a Theater Sandbag
• Goðafoss; upper gorge, Iceland.
• Mydarsjokull, Iceland
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample K2, Bottom View
• Rockwell Formation diamictite, Sideling Hill, Maryland
• Buzzard Rocks
• Ostracode fossils in Tonoloway Formation
• Ecphora gardnerae
• Komatiite
• Sediment from the Outer Banks, North Carolina
• K/T boundary. Gubbio #3
• Sediment from Beaverdam Creek, Virginia
• Fusulinid-rich sediment
• Classroom Chalk, Dolomite and Gypsum Blend, 3665x
• Diptera tipulidae 2380a
• Devonian Hampshire and lower Mississippian Rockwell Formations roadcut on Corridor H, West Virginia
• Derrick Quarry near Romney, West Virginia
• Mafic enclaves in the Kaap Valley Pluton, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Diopside, Plane Polars
• Unknown Sedimentary Sample
• Millboro Formation carbonate nodule
• Granitoid, Robertson River Igneous Suite
• Dike contact exposed at Kildonan, Arran, Scotland
• Mantle xenolith
• Garnet Mica Schist, Crossed Polars
• Mahantango Formation oolite with intraclast
• Passage Creek in flood
• Pekisko Formation, Lac des Arcs, Alberta
• Internal mold of a clam
• Folded metamorphic rocks exposed along the shore of Cabbage Island, Maine
• Trimmers Rock Bouma sequences
• Littleton Formation schist from Mt. Washington, New Hampshire
• Brachiopods and crinoid stems in Mississippian-aged Reynolds Limestone
• Chert Nodule in Ulster White Limestone ("The Chalk")
• Geologic Map of the Pennington Gap Quadrangle, Lee County, Virginia and Harlan County, Kentucky
• S-C fabric in Rockfish Conglomerate, Virginia Blue Ridge
• Sediment from Passage Creek, Fort Valley, Virginia
• Sedimentary Structure?
• Sediment from Clachtoll Beach, Scotland
• Ferruginous quartzite
• Bryozoans in Madison Formation Limestone
• Basal Cambrian burrows
• Sediment from Little Cayman
• Rudist
• Slab of Massanutten Sandstone
• Crossbedding preserved in phyllite
• Sykesville Formation, Chain Bridge Flats, DC
• Rollup structures in dolomitic microbialaminite
• Brallier Shale on NEW New WV 55 (version 1)
• Red Hole, Passage Creek, George Washington National Forest, Virginia (#2 of 2)
• Baraboo Quartzite - Van Hise Rock
• Sand from LaParee Beach, Bretignolles-sur-Mer, France
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample P1 (left) and P2 (right)
• Geologic Map of the Quantico Quadrangle, Prince William and Stafford Counties, Virginia and Charles County, Maryland
• Echinoid hemicidaris
• Komatiitic ash (meteorite impact layer), Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Stoer group unconformity (over Lewisian gneiss), Clachtoll, Scotland.
• Porphyritic vesicular basalt from Ka Lae, Hawaii
• Metatuff from the Catoctin Formation, South Mountain, Maryland
• Natural Bridge, Canada 2
• Limestones near Carlsbad, New Mexico
• East Brownsville, Texas quadrangle
• Rockwell Formation diamictite
• Ronasvoe beach gravel
• Boudinaged sandstone layer within Miette Group slate, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample R
• El Paso Arroyo
• Halite, 3455x
• Faults in Fort Payne Formation, Kentucky
• Fossil Lepidodendron
• Quartzite
• Tanytrachelos, from the Solite Quarry in the Dan River Basin, Virginia
• Serpentine
• Confusion Hill detail shot 3
• Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry
• Hampshire Formation siderite concretion, plane polars
• Garnet
• Red Hole, Passage Creek, George Washington National Forest, Virginia (#1 of 2)
• Pseudotachylyte
• Sedimentary Structure?
• Komatiite, Barberton Greenstone Belt
• Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC
• Talc
• View over paleotopography below the Buck Reef Chert
• Paleoproterozoic Gneiss, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Mather Gorge
• Fluorite
• Placopecten clintonious
• Foreknobs Formation- Corridor H Needmore section 1
• Satinspar
• "Dunbar Marble": Mississippian limestone chock full of rugose corals
• Unknown Sedimentary Rock
• Milky quartz
• Millboro Formation shale, Route 33 near Brandywine, West Virginia
• Blueschist (medium-grained)
• Serpentine Marble, Crossed Polars
• Carters Grove West
• Basaltic Pumice
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite TS-1
• Unknown sedimentary
• Ellipsoidal reduction spots in Welsh slate
• Siglufjörður, Iceland
• The Golden Gate
• Unknown Sedimentary Rock
• Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, Scotland
• View from Spruce Knob, looking south
• Stromatolite from Namibia
• Unknown Sedimentary Rock Sample
• Fuchsite
• Ex-aragonite seafloor cements
• Fold
• Folded turbidites of the Smaull Greywacke at Saligo Bay, Islay, Scotland.
• Lycopsid bark
• Laramie Range folds
• Komatiite, Barberton Greenstone Belt
• Bloomsburg Formation sandstone
• Blastoid, side view
• Old Red Sandstone, cliff at Dunbar, Scotland
• Tilted glacial outwash sediments
• Plaid Twinning in Microcline, Crossed Polars
• Balls Bluff Formation Along VA-267
• Hutton's Unconformity on the Isle of Arran
• Cathedral Formation Outcrop
• Beach sand from Washington Oaks Garden State Park, Flagler County, FL
• Signal Knob overlook
• Cooling columns, Catoctin Formation, exposed at Indian Run Overlook, Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
• Folds in Upper Conococheague
• Reticulite
• Graded bedding in the Martinsburg Formation
• Folded, foliated xenoliths in granite
• Conococheague Formation exposed near Mulberry Run, Virginia
• Calcite, 3095x
• Rollup structures in dolomitic microbialaminite
• Rockwell Formation diamictite
• Arkose
• Pyritized plant tissue from the Rockwell Formation diamictite
• Chromite olivine cumulate, Stillwater Complex, Montana
• Liesegang rings, Namibia
• Weathered and jointed ignimbrite, Grind of the Navir, Shetland
• Millboro Formation fossils
• Graphite Schist, Crossed Polars
• Slag from Britain used as ballast and then as road cobble in DC
• Columnar stromatolite
• El Capitan Reef, West Side
• Pyrite
• Ghost boundaries in quartzite, crossed polars
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite PFH-2
• Stromatolites, Helena Formation, near Crypt Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta
• Slate
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample G
• Sodium-Rich Plagioclase Feldspar
• Foram from Hapuna Beach, Big Island, Hawaii, 2920x
• Ediacaran microbial mat: "elephant skin" texture
• Halite
• Sediment from Big Wash Trail in Honey Bee Canyon, Oro Valley, Arizona
• Muscovite
• Araucaria mirabilis cone
• Setters Schist
• Mineral Sample M
• Hibriten Mylonite
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample F
• Diptera tipulidae 2193b
• Encrinite
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample J
• Coleoptera 1030a
• Difficult Run Migmatite 1
• Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - Fossils in the quarry
• Devonian Shale (#2), South Branch of the Potomac River, WV
• Slickensides of epidote in diorite
• Mitchem's Pit Close up
• Porphyritic andesite from the Kibo Summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
• Plate breccia
• Diptera tipulidae 007a
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample B
• Epidosite, Plane Polars
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample L
• Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #1
• Crossbedded Red Sandstone with Lichen
• Grind of the Navir
• Peridotite from the Josephine Ophiolite, Plane Polars
• Teredo, side view
• Fossil Quercus rihanna leaf
• Debris flow, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Flat pebble conglomerate, Gros Ventre Formation
• Drysdale Syncline as viewed from the Barberton GeoTrail
• Volcanic Breccia, Plane Polars
• Magnetite muscovite schist from Thoroughfare Gap
• Stac Fada member of the Clachtoll Formation
• Helderberg limestone, crossed polars
• Gabbro, Plane Polars
• Monkeypuzzle tree, Haupt Gardens, Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC
• Folded metamorphic rocks exposed along the shore of Cabbage Island, Maine
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample M
• Microbialite in banded iron formation
• Volcaniclastic Breccia from Mount St. Helens
• "Dunbar Marble": Mississippian limestone chock full of rugose corals
• Cushendun Conglomerate of the Cross Slieve Group, Cushendun, Northern Ireland
• Columnar Jointing in Catoctin Formation
• Marine Eugene Formation
• Argillaceous shale
• Portrush Sill, view #2
• Sediment from the Choptank Formation, Zone 13
• S3 spherulite layer in the Mapepe Formation, Fig Tree Group
• Scourie dike, Achmelvich Beach
• Chippewa Falls (Detail)
• Physical Geology Mineral Lab Sample 10-2
• Glauconite sand
• Staurolite, Plane Polars
• Derrick Quarry near Romney, WV
• Peyto Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Upper Contact, Purcell Sill
• Araucaria
• Dunite
• Sediment from Fortune Head, Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland
• Red cross-beds
• Slumped boulder (serpentinite colluvium), Marshall's Beach, San Francisco
• Basalt, Crossed Polars
• "Mississippi Valley" Outcrop - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Fossils in the Martinsburg Formation
• Actinolite
• Giant fusulinids
• Weverton Formation atop Biscuit Mountain (Outdoor Lab)
• Channel forms and clinoforms in the Hampshire Formation
• Stromatolitic Bonahaven Dolomite, south of Bunnahabhain, Islay, Scotland
• Diabeg Formation, Torridonian Group, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Rutile, Crossed Polars
• Stromatolites and ooids in banded iron formation
• Cross-bedding in rounded cobble of pink quartzite
• Biotite Gneiss, Plane Polars
• Unakite, Plane Polars
• Confusion Hill detail shot 2
• Brallier and Chemung Formations, new New Route 55, West Virginia
• Helderberg Limestone, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Volcaniclastic Breccia from Mount St. Helens
• Conglomerate
• Drumadoon Sill
• Diptera tipulidae 638b
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample N
• Grind of the Navir
• Diopside, Crossed Polars
• Sand from Portrush, Northern Ireland
• Climbing ripples in Millboro Formation shale
• Ennis, Montana quadrangle
• Fossil
• Jura as viewed from Islay
• Graded bed in Martinsburg Formation turbidites, Peach Orchard Gap, Virginia
• Sand from Crescent City Beach, Crescent City, California
• Grand Canyon from Lipan Point
• Tonoloway Formation, folded as part of Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample L2
• Mauch Chunk sandstone, plane polars
• Kimberlite from Barkly West, South Africa, Crossed Polars
• Sphalerite on Fossiliferous Chert
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• Cristo Rey Mountain
• Jasper
• Mudchip conglomerate w/ varying oxidation states
• Flute casts in Brallier Formation shale
• Volcanic Breccia, Crossed Polars
• S-C mylonite
• Confusion Hill
• Columbia pluton
• Fern fossil, St. Clair, Pennsylvania
• Limy slate
• Floe Lake, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Marine microfossils
• Olivine at 3095x
• Massanutten sandstone slab with trace fossils (annotations only)
• Rockslide in Gog Formation quartzite, trail to Helen Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Microcline
• Boudinaged tourmalines in Setters Schist, Maryland
• Pseudotachylyte from Vredefort, with acrylic paint coat.
• Cross-bedding
• Living Stromatolites
• Detail of Eastern Fold in the Large Rt 279 Outcrop, Bennington, Vermont, USA
• Passage Creek in flood
• Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
• Microbially induced sedimentary structures, Barberton
• Corumbella campground
• Euhedral Quartz, 3265x
• Sheared gabbro from Castel Odhair
• Cobbles, Church Bay, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
• Torridonian Group, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Graptolites, Dob's Linn, Scotland
• Walls Boundary Fault, Shetland
• Magnetite with Fayalite
• "Sketchy Trails" Outcrop - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Fossils from the Rochester Shale
• View over outcrops of the Buck Reef Chert
• Bell Canyon/Rader Slide Roadcut
• Waterton Park - Crandell Mountain
• Athabasca Glacier
• Corona Heights Fault, San Francisco
• Lake Scott, Kansas quadrangle
• "Madeira Point" on the Billy Goat Trail
• Petrified wood cross section
• Holey Hampshire Formation
• Oolitic Limestone, Plane Polars
• Fluvial and lahar deposits at Cold Springs, California
• Mahantango Formation showing trace fossils, Fort Valley Road, Virginia
• Papilliform stromatolite, Green River Formation
• Diptera tipulidae 512
• Beach sand from Montserrat, British West Indies
• Folded banded iron formation
• Lava flow of 1944, Vesuvius
• Banded iron formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Devil's Racecourse, Ft. Ritchie, Maryland
• Outsized clast (dropstone?) in Miette Group gritstone, southern Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park
• Klingle Valley metaconglomerate, Laurel Formation, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, DC
• Zoisite
• Martinsburg Formation graywacke
• Harpers Formation, Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
• Diptera tipulidae 2227b
• Old Red Sandstone, cliff at Dunbar, Scotland
• Sediment from Myrtle Creek, Myrtle Beach, Del Norte County, California
• Physical Geology Minerals Lab Sample Set 5
• LiDAR view of the Northern Fort Valley and Massanutten Mountain
• Sea Urchin Spine, Sandy Cove, Newfoundland, 3175x
• Arkose, Cushendun
• Mars PSP_001984_1735
• Coarse Sediment from Jenner, CA
• Diatomaceous earth
• Gog Formation quartzite, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• S2 meteorite impact tsunami deposit, Barberton Greenstone Belt
• Graywacke and tafoni weathering on sandstone, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California
• Keyser limestone, crossed polars
• Geopetal fossils in Limestone
• Diptera tipulidae 007
• Folds exposed at Riggins, Idaho (annotated)
• Fagopsis leaf
• Column at YMCA Camp Harrison, North Carolina
• Marine body fossils in Mississippian-aged Reynolds Limestone
• Sykesville Formation, Chain Bridge Flats, DC
• Closer look at the K/T Boundary. Gubbio, Italy
• Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia
• View east over paleotopographic relief at the base of the Buck Reef Chert
• Stigmaria
• Fluorite
• Amazonite (Microcline)
• The Rock and Spindle, Kinkell Ness, Scotland
• View west from Woodstock Tower, Massanutten Mountain
• Catoctin Formation greenstone
• Ecphora gardnerae, interior view
• Contact between Fauquier Formation marble and Catoctin Formation greenstone, near Lime Kiln Road, Virginia
• Clastic dike
• Neuroptera 1597a
• Granite pegmatite dike in diorite
• Brallier Formation - Baker section 6
• Gros Ventre Landslide - Kelly, Montana
• Anticline/Syncline Pair Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline WV55 North Side
• Striations in Eldon Formation, exposed near Athabasca Glacier.
• Canyon Diablo meteorite
• Glacial cobble
• Brachiopods in sandstone, Pennsylvania
• Chalcopyrite
• Hutton's Unconformity, Arran
• Sand from Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley
• Hanging Rock Anticline, West Virginia
• Mineral Grains from a Herkimer Diamond Mine
• Pseudotachylyte from Asbestos Mountain, California, Crossed Polars
• Gunflint SCH55 22A
• Rockwell diamictite, crossed polars
• S3 spherulite layer in Mapepe Formation, Fig Tree Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt
• Pyrolusite
• Cleavage refraction in Konnarock Formation
• Skinner Butte Columns
• Lunar Breccia Sample 65015, Plane Polars
• Mistaken Point
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample E
• Sub-Torridonian unconformity, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample F1 and F2
• Archean conglomerate with detrital pyrite
• Internal mold of a clam
• Diopside
• Carbonatite dikes, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Red slate with elongated reduction spots
• Rubified quartz of the Swift Run Formation
• Giant eurypterid trackway near St. Andrews, Scotland
• Amphibolite from Great Falls, Maryland
• Galena
• Portrush: hornfels (contact metamorphosed Lias shale) above Portrush gabbroic/doleritic sill
• Table Mountain Sandstone, South Africa
• Diabase sill/dike complex within Red Bluff Granite
• Fossil snails in Reynolds Limestone
• Glacier on Mt. Stephen
• Folds in Edinburg Formation, Opequon Creek, Clarke County, Virginia
• Brachiopod from the Needmore Shale
• Calcite and [?] precipitated on gneiss used as aquarium decoration, face 1 of 3
• Granite vein cutting Paleoproterozoic gneiss, Clear Creek Canyon, CO
• Fold and Fault in the Amsden Formation on the eastern side of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming
• Lapilli from Mt. Etna
• Passage Creek: not in flood
• Serpentine, Crossed Polars
• Calvert Formation, Scientists' Cliffs, Maryland (#3 of 8)
• Folded turbidites at Saligo Bay, Islay, Scotland.
• Hanging Rock Anticline, east side
• Arkose
• Redfieldius
• Hematite
• Cirque Peak, Banff National Park, Alberta
• Ulster White Limestone ("The Chalk"), Northern Ireland
• Granite with Mafic Xenoliths, Iceland
• Dismembered, folded sandstone body from Corridor H, WV, plane polars
• Hueco Group anthill
• Beartooth Andesite
• Graded bed in Martinsburg Formation turbidites, Peach Orchard Gap, Virginia
• Chancellor Group slate, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Sediment from Mt. Suswa, Kenya
• Gypsum, var. Satinspar, 2800x
• Diptera tipulidae 1714a
• Sediment from Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California at 3125x
• Smaull greywacke turbidites exposed south of Saligo Bay, Islay, Scotland
• Fault breccia in Helderberg Group
• Crinoid calyx
• Eocene-aged fish from the Green River Formation
• Shell-rich horizon in Mahantango Formation
• Oriskany/Needmore Formations
• Giant current ripples, Crescent Bar, WA
• Rounded cobble of Cuckold Formation conglomerate, St. John's, Newfoundland
• Sand from Al Habab, Dubai, UAE
• Sykesville Formation, Chain Bridge Flats, DC
• Quartzite, plane polars
• Native Copper
• Unconformity east of Portrush
• Proterozoic basement rock, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Liesegang rings in jointed sandstone, Foreknobs Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia.
• Pink marble
• Grudaidh Formation w/ vogesite sill, faulted
• Fauquier Formation limestone, crossed polars
• Cretaceous strata at Swift Dam
• Incipient Cleavage in Siltstone
• Therapod Tracks 2
• Northern Hueco Mountains Escarpment
• Chancellor Group slate, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Sand from Siesta Key, Florida
• Walker Top mylonite
• Biotite Granite, Plane Polars
• Peridotite, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Ammonite in hornfels
• Microbially induced sedimentary structures and fluvial conglomerate, Barberton
• Helderberg Formation chert, plane polars
• Chesapecten jeffersonius, state fossil of Virginia
• S-C fabric in schist, Dover Fault, Newfoundland
• Lunar Sample 12002 Thin Section of Basalt, Crossed Polars
• Mitchems Pit, Matthews County Virginia
• Fauquier Formation limestone, plane polars
• Icelandic valley #2
• Graded bed in Martinsburg Formation turbidites, Peach Orchard Gap, Virginia
• Apatite in Orthoclase
• Potassium feldspar
• South lateral moraine, Athabasca Glacier (end-on view)
• Platteklip Gorge, Table Mountain
• Hampshire Formation siderite concretion, crossed polars
• Sediment from Tangalle, Sri Lanka
• Brecciated chert, Corona Heights Fault, San Francisco, California
• Paw Paw, West Virginia-Maryland quadrangle
• Ammonites in contact-metamorphosed Lias, Portrush, Northern Ireland
• Cobble of amygdaloidal basalt from Precambrian-aged Castle Danger Formation
• Konnarock Formation rhythmites
• Naturebaths, Lake Myvatn region
• Specular hematite
• Gneissic xenolith in Scourie dike mafic rock
• Fossil Annularia and Mariopteris nervosa
• Sand from the Atlantic Ocean at Kure Beach, North Carolina
• Olivine in Gabbro, Plane Polars
• Diopside with red and white calcite
• Fine Sediment from Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland
• Martinsburg Formation, Millner Road and Bethel Road, Shenandoah County, Virginia
• Biotite Granite, Crossed Polars
• Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy
• View south from Table Mountain toward Chapman's Peak and the Cape of Good Hope
• Martinsburg Formation
• Laminated micrite
• Walls Boundary Fault, Shetland
• Sea stacks and sea bird nesting sites, north of West Lighthouse, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland, U.K.
• Sykesville Formation, Chain Bridge Flats, DC
• View toward Barite Valley
• Tonoloway Formation Faults (Close Up), Corridor H
• S2 meteorite impact tsunami deposit, Barberton Greenstone Belt
• Brachiopods and bivalve mollusks
• Sediment from Crescent Bar, Washington
• L-tectonite
• Sand from the Strait of Gibraltar
• Beach cobbles at Dunbar, Scotland
• Porphyritic vesicular basalt from Mt. Vesuvius
• Stigmaria tree root fossil
• Fort Valley from Buzzard Rocks
• Harpers Formation, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample L, one side view
• Weverton Formation at Outdoor Lab (Biscuit Mountain)
• Kilbourne Hole, detail B
• Cross-bedding
• Wind River Canyon Wyoming
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample E
• Pillow basalts, Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
• Phyllite, Crossed Polars
• Rhyolite
• Little A Glacier and Boundary Glacier, near Icefield Centre, Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Alberta
• Polysynthetic Twinning in Albite, Plane Polars
• Meteorite: Seymchan Pallasite
• Black Cretaceous Shales - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample I
• Neuropteris
• Sand from Valencia College, West Campus, Orlando, FL
• Extensional Shear Bands in Thin Section
• Boudinaged tourmalines in Setters Schist, Maryland
• Witvlei Group stromatolites
• Lamprophyre, Crossed Polars
• Roadcut Northwest of Bisbee, AZ
• Gastropod-bearing agate ("Turitella agate") of the Green River Formation, Wyoming
• Euhedral calcite in Precambrian-aged basalt cobble
• Chapman's Mill, Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
• Native copper in Catoctin Formation metabasalt
• Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
• Cornwallis Cave, Yorktown Virginia
• Brallier Formation near Deerfield, Virginia
• Heliophylum halli calyx
• "Rocks of Virginia" garden at the DGMR
• Amphibolite
• Sacagawea Peak from bioherms near the Thunderer, Bridger Range, Montana
• Coal Bed, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Rock Garden
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample G
• Crepidula
• Folds in Lewisian gneiss (weathered), Achmelvich, Scotland
• Sphalerite
• Pemaquid Point, Maine
• Fish fossil from Green River Formation
• Limestone (biosparite)
• Lamprophyre, Plane Polars
• Rockfish Gap, Virginia
• Ghaub Formation diamictite with Snowball Earth glacial dropstones
• Hematite
• Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Fm. - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Kilbourne Hole, detail C
• Fluid escape structure in MISS-dominated sandstones, Moodies Group
• Marine body fossils in Mississippian-aged Reynolds Limestone
• Nautiloid in Mahantango Formation
• Mazon Creek paleoplant
• Martinsburg Formation exposed at Staunton, Virginia
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample F
• Mylonite, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Sediment from Playa Rocosa De Piñones, Puerto Rico
• Giant current ripples from Missoula Megafloods, Crescent Bar, Washington
• Helen Lake Stromatolite 4
• Olivine in Gabbro, Crossed Polars
• Etna: auxillary crater
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample V
• Grind of the Navir
• Ercall Quarry
• Ultramylonite
• Rockwell Formation concretion, interior
• Tabulate corals
• Pressure solution seams
• Ronas Hill Granite, Crossed Polars
• Kilbourne Hole, detail D
• Spherulitic felsite, Shetland
• Zoophycos trace fossils in Mahantango Formation
• Flame structures
• Helen Lake Stromatolites 3
• Chinese Hat, Galapagos
• Hell Creek Nirvana K/T boundary
• Sediment from Blackbird Caye, Turneffe Atoll, Belize
• Boudinage in Lewisian gneiss exposed near Durness
• Antiform in Mather Gorge Formation
• Barite with quartz and hematite on quartzite
• Talc, Plane Polars
• Pteridinium from Farm Plateau (Aar)
• Porphyry?
• Conglomerate as countertop, on display in Berryville, Virginia
• Migmatite exposed at Sea Point, South Africa
• Nautiloid with melanterite
• Selenite
• Lincolnshire limestone, crossed polars
• Calvert Formation, Scientists' Cliffs, Maryland (#6 of 8)
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• Earthquake Lake Scarp - Hebgen Lake Road, Montana
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample L, another side view
• Halite Crystals, 3175x
• Keyser Limestone
• Corona Heights Fault, San Francisco
• Graptolites, sp. Tetragraptus
• Differential Weathering, Sideling Hill, Maryland
• Paleoproterozoic gneiss, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Graptolite fossils from Dobb's Linn, Scotland
• Castner Marble
• Ostracode and gastropod body fossils, Tonoloway Formation
• Peridotite from the Josephine Ophiolite
• Wrinkly crenulation folds in marble
• Buffards Formation
• Granitoid dike from Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Graded bed in Martinsburg Formation
• Topaz
• Reynolds Member of the Mauch Chunk Formation
• Lunar Breccia Sample 65015, Crossed Polars
• Sugarloaf Mountain quartzite
• Port Askaig "Tillite" (Diamictite), Islay, Scotland
• Tourmaline
• Dewatering structure (?)
• Porphyritic Andesite, Crossed Polars
• Ostracodes in Tonoloway Formation limestone
• Chambersville - Base of the Foreknobs Formation
• Mahantango Formation, showing Zoophycos trace fossils
• Oriskany Fishing Hole
• Rocky Gap Run, Lake Habeeb, Maryland
• Marble, Plane Polars
• Point Bar
• Wyler Aerial Tramway
• Gowganda Tillite
• Graded bedding in the Martinsburg Formation
• Stretched clasts in Laurel Formation metagraywacke, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, DC
• Bermuda "Pink Sand" Foram, 2495x
• Railroad cut, Linden, Virginia
• Purslane Formation Sandstone, Sideling Hill, Maryland
• Serpentine
• Pebble-bearing Massanutten Sandstone
• Spherulitic felsite, Shetland
• Opferkessel atop Old Rag Mountain
• Sand from The Bahamas
• Highland County, VA Mafic Intrusion
• Physical Geology Minerals Lab Sample 4
• Actinolite in Actinolite Schist, Crossed Polars
• Basalt, Plane Polars
• South Fort Valley Antiform
• Funzie Conglomerate, Fetlar, Shetland, U.K.
• Confusion Hill medium-range outcrop #5
• Foram from Ronasvoe, Shetland, Scotland
• Mahantango Formation, showing carbonate nodules
• Sediment from Big Run, Shenandoah National Park
• Magnetite-Rich Sand from Fort Funston Beach, San Francisco, CA
• Kilbourne Hole, detail E
• Stromatolites, Helena Formation, near Crypt Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta
• Sand from Scientists' Cliffs, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland at 3530x
• Fossils in Reynolds Limestone, Mauch Chunk Formation
• Papil Water, Fetlar, Shetland
• Folded turbidites of the Smaull Greywacke, Saligo Bay, Islay, Scotland
• Helen Lake stromatolites, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Double unconformity at Beinn Garbh, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Plant fossil: gymnosperm
• Beach sand from the Big Island, Hawaii
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• Detail of Western Fold in the Large Rt 279 Outcrop, Bennington, Vermont, USA
• Barite horizon, Mapepe Formation of the Fig Tree Group
• Sediment from Torres del Paine, Chile
• Mudcracks at Höfn, Iceland
• Pteridinium from Farm Aar
• Hampshire Formation redbeds, from a higher perspective
• Chalcedony
• Whipcove Anticline
• Porphyritic dike rock, Blackwaterfoot, Arran, Scotland
• Graded carbonate beds
• Diptera tipulidae 2223a
• Rock Scramble at Old Rag Mountain, Virginia
• Pipe Rock, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Yesnaby "Castle," western mainland Orkney, Scotland, U.K.
• Heat-treated amethyst
• Fig Tree Formation banded chert
• Gibbsite in Bauxite
• Accretion lapilli
• Mauch Chunk Formation, showing Reynolds Limestone Member
• Microfiber in Chesapeake Bay Plankton Tow, 2940x
• Muscovite and Chlorite, Plane Polars
• Klamath Faults 1
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite 17
• Alethopteris
• Sand Grain from Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California at 3955x
• Cross-bedding
• Prom?
• McKelligon Canyon
• Meteorite Northwest Africa 869
• Imbricated gravels of the Salmon River, Idaho
• Mammoth Cave, Kentucky quadrangle
• Crazy Cat breccia
• Fossil Metasequoia and angiosperm
• Watern Cove
• Pisolites in Tansil Formation limestone, Whites City, New Mexico
• Geologic map of the Williamsville, Virginia quadrangle
• Strained Antietam Formation
• Folded Cretaceous sediments of the Western Interior Seaway
• Serpentinite breccia, North Anatolian Fault, Turkey
• Tremolite, 2940x
• Compositional layering in schist, Glen Roy, Scotland
• Blastoid, Top View
• Sediment from Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware
• Pseudocraters at Lake Mývatn, Iceland
• Hampshire Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Ash and lapilli from Kilbourne Hole
• Rockwell Formation diamictite
• Park City, Kentucky quadrangle
• NEW New WV 55 fold belt 3
• Calvert Formation, Scientist Cliffs, Maryland (#5 of 8)
• Folded turbidites at Saligo Bay, Islay, Scotland.
• Trilobite Pseudogygites, Ontario, Canada
• Rose quartz
• Serpentinite from the Josephine ophiolite sequence
• Shenandoah Valley Overlook, Shenandoah National Park
• Faulted Massanutten Formation sandstone at the Talking Headwall
• Marble, Crossed Polars
• Gastropod duplex w/ people for scale
• Fluorite
• Antietam Formation
• Accretionary lapilli, Msauli Chert, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Sediment from Sandy Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Paleoproterozoic gneiss, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Migmatite on the Billy Goat Trail, Great Falls, Maryland
• Dolomite
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample D
• Breccia in basalt
• Malachite, Plane Polars
• Spherulitic felsite, Shetland
• Jefferson Rock #1, Harpers Formation, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
• Mylonitized pseudotachylyte, Pofadder Shear Zone
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample T
• Passage Creek in Flood I
• Amygdules in Catoctin Formation
• Bar 3 cross section, near Wilson Creek, Washington
• Crazy Cat breccia
• Dismembered, folded sandstone body from Corridor H, WV, crossed polars
• Bituminous shale
• Porphyritic green metavolcanic rock, St. Anthony, Newfoundland
• Sample from the Dead Sea, Israel
• Grain from Clear Creek, Colorado
• Rockwell Formation diamictite, exposed on Corridor H, West Virginia (second berm)
• Kaap Valley Pluton exposed along Queens River, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Basalt
• Thin Section of the Doushantuo Phosphorite
• Rockwell Formation diamictite
• Diorite, Plane Polars
• Calvert Formation glauconite sand
• Petrified wood
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite PFH-1
• Fossil Sphenophyllum
• Anticline in Veach Gap
• West Face - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• View west along the southern shore of northern Rathlin Island (from the Roonivoolin Trail)
• Ridgeley Sandstone fauna
• Physical Geology Mineral Lab Sample 10-11
• Folded gneissic banding, Billy Goat Trail, Maryland
• Foram from La Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, 3155x
• Kink banding in Laurel Formation of Rock Creek Shear Zone, Broad Branch, Washington, DC
• Paleoproterozoic augen gneiss, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• LIDAR Weverton Formation - Blue Ridge front, Virginia with geologic map overlay
• Ilmenite
• Evan Thomas Creek, showing flood deposits and erosion
• Storm deposit in glauconitic sandstone
• Calcite
• Halite casts
• Rockwell Formation diamictite from Sideling Hill
• Grand Canyon View from Desert View Outlook
• Little ammonite
• Sand from Siesta Key, Florida
• Klingle Valley metaconglomerate, Laurel Formation, Rock Creek Shear Zone, Washington, DC
• Sillimanite in Sillimanite-Garnet Gneiss, Plane Polars
• Nature baths, Mývatn, Iceland
• Thunderbird Rhyolite, Franklin Mountains, Texas
• Dickey Ridge Overlook, Shenandoah National Park
• Coal and pyrite from the Carboniferous Period
• Veach Gap Anticline 1
• Amygdular basalt from Cornwall, Pennsylvania
• Permian red beds near Hutton's Unconformity, Lochranza, Arran
• Marble breccia
• Quartz-cemented breccia, Antietam Formation quartzite, western Blue Ridge, Virginia
• Fine Sediment from Canoa Beach, Ecuador
• Glacial cobble
• Ocean jasper, Madagascar
• Brain coral
• Ronasvoe and Ronas Hill, Shetland
• Augen Gneiss, Plane Polars
• Those aren't crinoid columnals
• Diptera 248
• Cruziana trace fossils
• Actinolite in Quartz
• Rockwell Formation diamictite, plane polars
• Chromite olivine cumulate, Stillwater Complex, Montana
• Weathered Sandstone
• (Potential) accretionary lapilli in mudrock
• Fossil Pecopteris
• Leesburg Conglomerate
• Wall of Peninsula Formation Sandstone, Cape Supergroup, Table Mountain
• Coarse Sediment from Canoa Beach, Ecuador
• Petrified wood
• Signal Knob Overlook, Shenandoah National Park
• Fucoid beds
• Sphalerite, Crossed Polars
• Anorthite
• Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline 3
• Sahara Desert sand
• Big kink fold in Foreknobs Formation, Rt. 50 west of Gore, Virginia
• Crossbedded Fine Sandstone
• Sand from Ocean City, Maryland
• Cross-cutting features in a block of limestone
• Pyrolusite
• Garnet in Castner Marble, Franklin Mountains, West Texas
• Kyanite quartzite, crossed polars
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample Q
• Kyanite quartzite
• Stromatolitic chert from the ~1.9 Ga Gunflint Formation
• Stromatolites, Helena Formation, near Crypt Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta
• Brachiopod Body Fossils in the Ridgeley Sandstone, LaVale, MD
• Mist Mountain Formation (Kootenay Group), Canmore, Alberta
• Staurolite, Crossed Polars
• Malachite, Crossed Polars
• Ulster White Limestone ("The Chalk") with belemnite fossil
• Looking into the Bow from Barrier Mountain
• Ripple marks in Foreknobs Formation
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample K2, Side View
• Microbially induced sedimentary structures, Barberton
• Calcite
• Tiny faults and folds
• Tubestone stromatolite
• Siccar Point, Scotland
• Gastropod at 2000x
• Ridgeley Sandstone
• "Pocket Sand" from the Ace of Diamonds Mine, Herkimer, New York
• Diptera tipulidae 846a
• Fauquier Formation and Backpack
• Allegheny Formation chert, plane polars
• Cristo Rey: Buda Formation - overturned syncline
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample B
• Tempestite
• Zircon, 3875x
• Sediment from below the wrack line on Playalinda Beach, Merritt Island, Florida
• Laminated Shale, Plane Polars
• Moldavite
• Sand fom Þorlákshöfn, Iceland
• Graywacke
• Helderberg limestones, Fort Valley Road, Virginia
• Rockwell Formation diamictite, crossed polars
• Big Rocky Run Sediment at 4680x
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample D
• Tonoloway ostracode bed
• Bloomsburg, Mifflinsville, and Catawissa County Quadrangles, Columbia County, PA
• Augite, 3095x
• Marble Breccia, Crossed Polars
• Calvert Formation, Scientists' Cliffs, Maryland (#7 of 8)
• Sediment from Fiumefreddo, Sicily
• Olivine-rich sand from Ka Lae, Hawai'i
• Bituminous coal
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample C
• Fine sandstone
• Indian Ocean microconcretion
• Michigan Center, Michigan quadrangle
• Microbial sulfate reduction spots
• Conococheague Formation exposed near Mulberry Run, Virginia
• Bryozoan Archimedes
• Sandstone bed from within the Brallier Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Blue Hole, Passage Creek, George Washington National Forest, Virginia
• Rathlin Island Foram
• East Sheep Canyon - Sheep Mountain Anticline, WY
• Ignimbrite, Mt. Vesuvius, Italy
• Sand from Perissa Beach, Santorini, Greece
• "Cub Sandstone" (Uppermost Martinsburg Formation), near Catherine Furnace, Virginia
• Sacagawea Peak from the south, halfway along the ridge toward the Thunderer, Bridger Range, Montana
• Buzzard Rocks
• Sediment from Accotink Creek, Fairfax, Virginia
• Encrinal Limestone, Crossed Polars
• "Minsk Green" granite
• Thoroughgare Gap from Turner Road
• Fossiliferous limestone
• Devonian coral
• Sedimentary features in the Conemaugh Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Caliche from the Hueco Formation, West Texas
• Coelacanth tail fossil from the Solite Quarry, Dan River Basin, Virginia
• Anorthite, Crossed Polars
• Coquina
• Allegheny Formation coal, crossed polars
• Difficult Run Migmatite 2
• Rock Gypsum, Plane Polars
• Campus Andesite
• Migmatite, Crossed Polars
• Dolomite
• Serpentine, var. chrysotile
• Urchin Spine from Playa Rocosa De Piñones, Puerto Rico, at 3555x
• Microbially-induced sedimentary structures, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa
• Thin Section of Deformed Quartzite with Small Pebbles
• "Dragon's Tongue" Outcrop, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Port Askaig Tillite
• Pteridinium at Aarhauser
• Mauch Chunk sandstone, crossed polars
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite AB-1
• Beach sand from Bell's Beach near Victoria, Australia
• Semionotid fish (Triassic), Culpeper Basin, Virginia
• Sheared gabbro from Castel Odhair
• Calvert Formation, Scientists' Cliffs, Maryland (#4 of 8)
• Gneiss
• Fault scarp at Þingvellir
• Siccar Point, Scotland
• NEW new WV 55 west of Moorefield anticline
• Physiography of the central Appalachians
• Vesicular basalt
• Unknown sedimentary sample
• Boudinaged tourmaline in Setters Schist
• Amygdules in Catoctin Formation meta-basalt
• Fault breccia from the scarp of the Hebgen Lake Fault, southern Montana
• "Leopard rock" with contact zone
• Syenite
• Hornblende schist
• Sand from Omaha Beach, Normandy
• Conemaugh Group, Corridor H
• Sediment from above the wrack line on Playalinda Beach, Merritt Island, Florida
• Serpentinite with chrysotile hat
• Sand from Halls Lake, Ontario, Canada
• Tanytrachelos, from the Solite Quarry in the Dan River Basin, Virginia
• Enstatite, Plane Polars
• Giant ooids
• Grinnell Formation quartzite
• Kilbourne Hole 360, January 2009
• Scleractinian coral
• Sykesville Formation, Chain Bridge Flats, DC
• Bituminous coal
• Reynolds Limestone member of the Mauch Chunk Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• Graded bed in Martinsburg Formation turbidites, Peach Orchard Gap, Virginia
• Unknown Sedimentary Rock
• Foram from Hapuna Beach, Big Island, Hawaii, 3970x
• Tourmaline Schist, Plane Polars
• Healed break in hadrosaur bone
• Sideling Hill (North Side), Maryland
• Actinolite, 2940x
• Igneous Rocks Lab Sample N
• Sand from Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Pope's Head Formation showing cross bedding on the plane of foliation
• Pseudotachylyte from Vredefort, South Africa
• Diorite
• Stephen / Eldon formational contact, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Just a cool rock.
• Slab of Rockwell Formation diamictite
• Harpers Formation at Jefferson Rock, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
• Bryozoan-rich limestone
• Contact between Tensleep Formation and Goose Egg Formation, east of Shell, Wyoming
• Microbially-induced sedimentary structures in Stoer Group siliciclastics, Clachtoll, North-West Highlands, Scotland
• Ulster White Limestone
• Helen Lake stromatolites, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Actinolite in Actinolite Schist, Plane Polars
• Pool at Hofsos, #2
• Clastic dike in slaty sandstone, Tickle Cove, Newfoundland
• Rockwell Formation diamictite, crossed polars
• Travertine at Tumbling Run
• "Fubarite" Outcrop - Sheep Mountain Anticline, Wyoming
• Tremolite in quartzite
• Green ignimbrite overlying basalt, Berufjörður, Iceland
• Hibriten Mylonite
• Sediment from the Leiðarendi Lava Tube, Iceland
• Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite PFH-3
• Spherulitic felsite, Shetland
• White Mountain escarpment, Wyoming
• Albite
• Spherulitic felsite, Shetland
• Two sections through a folded sandstone slab ("ploudin") from the mass transport deposit at the end-Devonian section on Corridor H, West Virginia
• Waterfall Formation boulder
• Scoria
• "Diamond in the Rough" outcrop of Hampshire Formation, Corridor H, West Virginia
• LS tectonite, Phoenix Mountains, Arizona
• Greenops boothi (?) trilobite pygidium
• Chapman's Mill, Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
• Cinder cone, Snæfellsnes Peninsula
• Sediment from Satellite Beach, Florida
• Helderberg limestone, plane polars
• Slickensides in ultramafic rocks at Time Zone Bridge, Salmon River, Idaho
• Cape Granite II
• Garnet-Rich Purple Sand, Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, CA
• Slate, Crossed Polars
• Sediment from Pfeiffer Beach, California
• Sand from Zatoka, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine
• Enstatite
• Gypsum variety Alabaster
• Chapman's Mill, Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
• Boudinaged tourmaline from the Setters Schist, Maryland
• Stromatolite from Namibia
• Soft Sediment Deformation in Castner Marble, Franklin Mountains, West Texas
• Coprolite?
• Porphyritic andesite, Crazy Mountains, Montana
• Metamorphic Rocks Lab Sample N
• Helen Lake stromatolites, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Amethyst
• Calcite precipitated on aquarium gravel
• Trilobite Elrathia kingi
• Fossil Asterophyllites equistiformis
• Conifer Cone
• Margin of a Scourie dike (contact w/ host rock: Lewisian gneiss)
• Amphibolite from Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Portrush: hornfels (contact metamorphosed Lias shale) above Portrush gabbroic/doleritic sill
• Flood deposits on Evan Thomas Creek, Kananaskis Trail, Alberta
• Fossiliferous Limestone, Crossed Polars
• Augite at 1965x
• Passage Creek in flood
• Sandstone with Calcite Cement, Crossed Polars
• Stac Fada member of the Clachtoll Formation
• Quartz
• Aquia Creek Sandstone
• Pressure solution in Eldon Formation limestone exposed on roche moutonee east of Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park, Alberta
• Sphalerite, Plane Polars
• Cushendun Conglomerate of the Cross Slieve Group, Cushendun, Northern Ireland
• Fault breccia
• Meteorite Northwest Africa 869, cut face
• "Geologic provinces of northern Virginia" display
• Dolostone
• Breccia in Antietam Formation, Swift Shoals
• Martinsburg Formation, South Page Valley Road, Page County, Virginia
• Porphyritic rhyolite dike, Cushendun, Northern Ireland
• Massanutten Sandstone exposed at Red Hole on Passage Creek
• Sediment from Black Sands Beach, Marin County, CA
• Port Askaig Tillite
• Carbonatite dikes cutting across Chancellor Group slate, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Fossil Annularia
• Evaporite texture in Tonoloway Formation
• Ammonoids
• Tilted, folded, intruded metamorphic rock, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Sedimentary Rocks Lab Sample Q
• Two views of Giant City State Park, Illinois
• LS tectonite, Phoenix Mountains, Arizona
• Sterling, Virginia-Maryland quadrangle
• Patagonian turbidites, Chile
• Metasequoia
• Chlorite Schist, Crossed Polars
• Calcite
• Siliceous Oolite, Crossed Polars
• Felsic intrusion with xenoliths
• Hampshire Formation, showing channel forms in cross section
• Unidentified unconformity
• Parallel Roads of Glen Roy
• Grand Canyon GigaView #25 Blacktail Canyon
• Chlorite schist
• Dias 360 - McMurdo Dry Valleys - Antarctica
• Coarse ooids
• False "syncline" in Titus Canyon, Death Valley National Park
• Mylonite
• Permian Tuff of St. Gertrude, near Cottonwood, Idaho
• Rutile exsolved on biotite
• Hedinsfjörður, between the two big tunnels on Tröllaskagi Peninsula, Iceland
• Anticline/Syncline Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline WV55 BIG
• Geologic Map of the Annandale Quadrangle, Fairfax and Arlington Counties, and Alexandria City, Virginia
• Orthoclase (Potassium Feldspar)
• Crepidula
• Calvert Formation, Scientists' Cliffs, Maryland (#1 of 8)
• Diatoms on a Grain of Sand from Scientists' Cliffs, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland at 2800x
• Folds and Faults in Foreknobs, Bergton, Virginia
• Kimberlite from Barkly West, South Africa
• Anorthite, 3015x
• Green ignimbrite
• Giant Current Ripples, Crescent Bar, Washington
• Dropstones in weakly-lithified "silt-ite" from Looking Glass Highway, east of Glacier National Park

Public Collections

• Minerals
• Rivers
• Collections
• Oceans and Coasts
• Landscapes
• Sediment
• Structural Geology
• Metamorphic Rocks
• Meteorites
• Hand Samples
• Thin Sections
• Unconformities
• Paleobotany
• Scotland
• Triassic Period
• Foraminifera
• Ediacaran Period
• Coastal Maine
• Mesozoic Era
• Paleozoic Era
• Fossils
• Shenandoah National Park
• El Paso, Texas
• Unknown Sedimentary Samples for Lab/Quiz
• Anthropocene
• Specimens from the Virginia Museum of Natural History
• Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
• Neogene Period
• Building Stones
• Geologic Maps
• Outcrops
• Devonian Period
• Glaciers
• Scanning Electron Micrographs
• Valley and Ridge Province
• Martinsburg Formation
• Igneous Rocks
• Jurassic Period
• Western Chesapeake
• Ordovician Period
• Relative Dating
• Iceland
• Foreknobs Formation
• Permian Period
• South Africa
• Silurian Period
• Primary Sedimentary Structures
• Wind River Canyon, Wyoming
• Proterozoic Eon
• Paleogene Period
• Northern Ireland
• Miette Group
• K/PG (K/T) Boundary
• Sedimentary Rocks
• Maps
• Phanerzoic Eon
• Catoctin and Swift Run Formations
• Culpeper Basin
• Karst and Travertine
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Stromatolites
• MT / WY Rockies
• Annotated GigaPans
• Channeled Scablands, Washington
• Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Calvert Cliffs and Scientists' Cliffs
• Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection
• Billy Goat Trail, Great Falls, Maryland
• Cenozoic Era
• Weathering
• Coastal Plain Province
• Chilhowee Group
• Carboniferous Period
• Mass Wasting
• Archean Eon
• Canadian Rockies
• Appalachian Plateaus Province
• Piedmont Province
• Blue Ridge Province
• Cambrian Period
• Massanutten, Tuscarora, and Shawangunk Formations
• Corridor H
• Snowball Earth
• Cretaceous Period