I shot this gigapan (900 images) last Thursday during the lunch break of the annual “Geology of Virginia” symposium hosted by the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Geology and Mineral Resources.
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It shows the rock garden outside the DGMR’s offices in Charlottesville, a place where they have collected charismatic megasamples from across the state’s five physiographic provinces as a showcase for the diversity of Virginia’s geology.
Cool! I’m a sucker for the coquinas. And that Skolithos is pretty sweet, too!
Callan – I was going to ask you about a guide – for the ones we can see numbers for – BUT, I thought – wait a minute , this shouldn’t be too hard – and – voila: http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DMR3/dmrpdfs/vamin/VM 48_2_3.pdf
I better tell Dave Spears that there needs to be some Mississippian rocks in there, like a nice ooid grainstone.
….Oh, and Great Photo! (Sorry about that!).