Whilst searching the coastline of the U.K. for Where On Google Earth? #226, I found these lovely folds exposed in wave-cut platforms on the east coast of Scotland. I missed the actual location of the Google Earth screenshot (It was in Wales, and Anne Jefferson found it), but I’m happy enough to have found some sweet folds exposed in map view.
The Friday fold this week is the sinuous shape of the Belcher Islands, Canada.
This summer, strolling atop the massive travertine terraces of Pamukkale, Turkey, I checked out the necropolis (graveyard) of Hierapolis, an ancient city founded around 200 BCE and abandoned after an earthquake in 1534. One thing that caught my eye there was this tomb, built of travertine blocks.
I scored this photo off the Internet more than five years ago, the first time I taught Structural Geology at George Mason University.