Some views from the airplane, over southern Wyoming (first two photos) and north-central Nevada (last four), last Saturday morning…
A canyon:
…and zooming in to the middle area of the previous photo:
Strata upwarped into a structural dome (that has been “planed off” to be topographically horizontal, revealing a bull’s-eye-shaped outcrop pattern, then differentially weathered and highlighted by snow:
Salt flat (playa lake + playa) in the Basin & Range province, just east of Reno:
…and zooming in to the central portion of the previous photo:
I didn’t have a window seat on this flight, so this is all you get – know that each of these photos was captured by leaning rudely across the lap of the person in the window seat, whom I repaid for this indignity by waxing geomorphological on everything I saw…
Wait, what? No window seat? And you call yourself a geologist?
A plane ride on a clear day, about as good as it gets.