By: magic-gigapans
Image: Callan Bentley, Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 29 Apr 2020
Last Updated: 18 May 2020

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Wind River Canyon (where the Wind River cuts across the Owl Creek Mountains in central Wyoming), exposes a classic example of "the great unconformity" (separating Precambrian from Paleozoic). Here's one site where you can see it. There's another here: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/lHPO1C7MVVzMZh9B A hand sample of schist from the site can be seen here: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/qgLlJrM4GWktNC0l