12.114 | Fall 2005 | Undergraduate

Field Geology I

Lecture 4 Image Gallery

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This image is from Death Valley, well west of the hinge line. The pile of Cambrian sediments here are ~3000 meters of carbonate rocks are represent only a small portion of the rocks that represent the same time period we just looked at in the Grand Canyon. While in the east the sequence is ~200 meters thick, the same sequence in the west is greater than up to 10,000 meters thick! This is what subsidence can do! Image courtesy of Professor Burchfiel.

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Death Valley.
Caption:
This image is from Death Valley, well west of the hinge line. The pile of Cambrian sediments here are ~3000 meters of carbonate rocks are represent only a small portion of the rocks that represent the same time period we just looked at in the Grand Canyon. While in the east the sequence is ~200 meters thick, the same sequence in the west is greater than up to 10,000 meters thick! This is what subsidence can do!
Credit:
Image courtesy of Professor Burchfiel.
Death Valley.

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