magic-gigapans

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

Public Collections

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