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Northeast U.S Canyons 2013
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2013 Northeast US Canyons Expedition
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Horizontal sedimentary rock layers showing effects of differential erosion.
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Horizontal sedimentary rock layers showing effects of differential erosion.
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Distinctly different lithologies are manifested by the layer of white seeminglydenser and harder layer lying between layers of bio-eroded chalk layers.
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Bio-erosion of chalk sedimentary layers.
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Distinctly different sedimentary layers are seen along the canyon wall. Suchsimply oriented sedimentary rock layers have been referred to aslayer-cake geology.
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Distinctly different sedimentary layers are seen along the canyon wall. Suchsimply oriented sedimentary rock layers have been referred to aslayer-cake geology.
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A large layer of rock has failed and tumbledto the base of the escarpment below.
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Distinctly different sedimentary layers are seen along the canyon wall. Suchsimply oriented sedimentary rock layers have been referred to aslayer-cake geology.
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Layers of resistant porcellanite rock interleaved with less resistant chalk that forms the eroded recesses. In this area, silt has sifted down from abovecovering many of the individual ledges formed by the differential erosion of the two rock types.
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Layers of resistant porcellanite rock interleaved with less resistant chalk that forms the eroded recesses. In this area, silt has sifted down from abovecovering many of the individual ledges formed by the differential erosion of the two rock types.
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An outstanding example of differential erosion of softer material and slabfailure of the more resistant material.
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Bio-erosion of soft chalk layers, particularly the large burrows that have beenexcavated. More resistant porcellanite layers form the ledges at bottomof the image.
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White ophiuroid brittle stars on a cobble and sand bottom.
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Pebbles, cobbles, and an unidentified annular structure.
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Sedimentary rock that failed and fractured on the left.
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Three different layers of sedimentary rock differentiated by color variations.
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A view reminiscent of a moonscape. However, there is life with brittle stars and a white, oddly shaped object with three sea urchins.
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Bio-eroded layers are probably chalk. An example of the layered nature anddifferential erosion of the stratigraphy exposed along the walls of the canyon.
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Bio-erosion of canyon walls. The holes are probably all fossil or activeburrows.
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A spur projecting out from the canyon wall with numerous brisingid sea stars.
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