Friday, April 5, 2013

Rocking in Texas

Rock Layers, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas  © Doug Hickok  All Rights Reserved



Geology always intrigues me. It was the subject I first studied in college until I realized I was better at taking pictures of rocks than analyzing their chemistry. 


Colorful outcrops such as these in Palo Duro Canyon rocked my eyes everywhere we explored. Very thin layers of white gypsum can be seen threading through this section of orange sedimentary stone, which dates from roughly 200 million years ago.

I am still a bit of a rockhound, collecting interesting specimens here and there. Consequently our yard is full of rocks from many places around the country.



17 comments:

  1. Paysage typiquement américain... Oh, c'est vraiment très beau !

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  2. HA! You'll have to show us a picture of your yard one of these days, Doug. :D

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  3. The colour of that sedimentary rock suggests a high iron content to me Doug. Nice perspective. I can imagine you with a pick and a bucket searching for interesting specimens.

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  4. Fascinating illustrative material for a geology class. The layer structure of sediments is really striking here!

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  5. I believe that a geologist would love this photo.

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  6. When my wife and I moved from Florida to Pennsylvania, we packed-up all our rocks--collected from many locations around the country--in a cardboard box labeled "rocks." When we arrived at our new house, I stored the box in the garage, a garage I share with my employer's staff for equipment storage. Periodically, the garage gets filled with "stuff" that the staff is too lazy to put away. Then, intermittently and summoning tremendous spurts of energy, the staff will clear away all the accumulated crap. Out went my box of rocks in one of those cleaning frenzies--including some really neat shark's teeth that I had collected in Florida's phosphate mines.

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  7. Kolor skał jest wspaniały i pieknie to zostało na zdjęciu pokazane. Pozdrawiam.
    Rock color is gorgeous and it was beautifully shown in the picture. Yours.

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  8. In Mother Earth's unique colors, beautiful photo, I like your composition.
    greetings.

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  9. love this stone color, never seen it in person

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  10. That's a great picture. I didn't know the expression "rockhound" but I seem to be, one too, as I like to collect stones/ rocks, too :)

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  11. and a rocking picture it is, too ... says one rockhound to another ;-)
    love the natural layers and textures and the earthen hues that only the desert can come up with !!!

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  12. For a moment, I thought it was going to be an image of "ZZ Top" in a hot rod - maybe next time! Meanwhile, a note for all you Rockhounds, look out for "Within the Stone" by Bill Atkinson, it's like a technicolor geological bible.





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  13. Amazing textures of nature, nicely shown here!

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  14. i like how the compressed scene enhanced the view.. great catch! :)

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  15. Unique colors of the American canyons! Nice point of view.
    Have a nice day.

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