Friday fold: Turtle Mountain and the Frank Slide
The Friday fold can be found this week at Turtle Mountain, Alberta, where it triggered a massive landslide.
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Adrift On An Ice Pan, by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
This very short narrative (hardly even a proper “book” in the modern sense of the word) is by the survivor of a wretched ordeal, as the title suggests, off the coast of Newfoundland in 1908. I consumed the audiobook version, as a free download from my public library, and finished it in a single day’s … Read more
Natural Bridge, Yoho National Park: Bedding/cleavage relationships
Check out the scene at Natural Bridge in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada: Don’t confuse this “Natural Bridge” with the one in Virginia. Here, in the western Canadian Rockies, the structural geology is much better. You may recall that I’ve previously featured outcrops from nearby this site as a Friday fold. It’s a great … Read more
Friday fold: Kananaskis Trail, Alberta
The Friday fold returns to Canada this week, with a look at an internally crumpled mountain along Alberta’s Kananaskis Trail…
Friday fold: a lovely three-dimensional exposure
The Friday fold series returns to Kootenay National Park in Canada for a look at some folded Cambrian limestones.
Friday fold: Rorschach blot
The broad symmetry (with smaller-scale variations) of this fold caught my eye as particularly artful when I saw it (at Howard’s recommendation) last summer in the Canadian Rockies: Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada. I see a butterfly. What do you see? Happy Friday.
Crazy veins
Callan & his students visit an outcrop on the Icefields Parkway in Alberta, showing a variety of white veins cutting dark rock.
Friday fold: clear evidence of the work of the Intelligent Folder
Yesterday’s post showcasing my conversational critique of Intelligent Design got a lot of attention, including tweet love from @NCSE and @BadAstronomer, and a blog post at Pharyngula. So, at the risk of overkill, I decided to have a little fun with the Friday fold… Check out this fold that I found in float of Purcell … Read more
Estemmenosuchus
Slightly annotated photo of a Permian therapsid skull on display in the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. Another photo of this same skull is here. This reptile needs an orthodontist.