Sandstone

The Saint Peter area has a variety if geology structures within it. At the first stop we made, there was Ordovician dolomite, Cambrian sandstone, and Quaternary till. The sandstone was the oldest in the formation of rocks dating back over 550 million years. It was a layered set of sandstone and was folded. The elevation was less than 1,000 feet and its thickness was approximately 115. The next oldest in this area was the Ordovician dolomite. This is roughly 505 million years old. It was bedded…

So let’s get into it the Tapeats Sandstone is along a vanished coast line according to "The Geology of the Grand Canyon." There was off shore islands that have been embedded in this layer. Then you have the bright angle shale which from this you get that the ocean was advancing again. Lastly…

The basement rock of this group is granite that is nonconformably overlain by quartzite. A lava flow nonconformably overlies the quartzite and nonconformably underlies a layer of shale with interbedded conglomerates and sandstones, quartzite nonconformably overlies this. This is then nonconformably overlain by shale. The dolomite sequence that contains stromatolites conformably overlies the shale and the repetition of nonconformable successive sequences of lava, quartzite…

Oil exploration began in the Subcontinent in 1866 with the drilling of the first well, Kundal-1 (Khisor Range, near oil seepage); in the region that now constitutes Pakistan. The first oil discovery was made in 1915 in Potwar, located in the Punjab Province, from Miocene / Eocene rocks; that field is still on production through artificial lift. Since 1915, Potwar remained the traditional ‘oil patch’ of the country till the oil was struck in 1981 at Khaskheli-1, drilled in Badin area of Sindh…

Around 380 million years ago, during the Devonian Period, North America and Baltica collided. This collision created another mountain range located in the same place where the Grenville Mountains and Taconic Mountains were formed. The Acadian Orogeny happened on the northeastern side of North America. Like TIA and the Grenville Belt, there was another land piece between Proto-North America and Baltica. This land piece was called Avalon. Avalon was believed to have broke apart from…

The Great Smoky Mountains is where Thomas Wolfe’s play The Mountains takes place. Although Wolfe doesn’t delve deep into the environment of the mountains themselves one can feel the mountains surrounding the play itself. The Great Smoky Mountains is a place full of plant life and animals. Surrounding all this plant life and animals are the mountains themselves and the history they tell. The Great Smoky Mountains at its highest areas is roughly about 6000 feet above sea level (Hadley 1). These…

LeFevre, Indiana Podokesaurus Holyokensis (meaning “swift-footed lizard from Holyoke”) roamed the Connecticut Valley during the early Jurassic period 190 to 174 million years ago, leaving its footprints in the soft, reddish mud that hardened into sandstone over time. The dinosaur was about the size of a large house cat, with formidable claws, supple neck, slender torso, and an outrageously elongated tail. In the mid-1800s, paleontologists began to study what locals had wondered about for…

Patrick Cardozo Dr Jeffrey Martz Geo 1306 3/24/2017 Second research paper analysis; Evolutionary trends in Triceratops from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana The authors were interested in knowing the actual evolutionary trends in the triceratops from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana; Some previous Palaeontologists have recognised two Triceratops species, Triceratops horridus and Triceratops prorsus, due to the fact that the length and shape of the horns and the size and structure of the…

Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock named after Sir Henry Ayers is a huge sandstone rock formation in the Northern Territory of Central Australia. Uluru is the most iconic landform in Australia and was formed over 500 million years ago. This single massive rock stands 348m tall with most of its 863m bulk lying under the sea. Uluru is a famous tourist destination allowing visitors to climb and camp around the base while allowing the view of breathtaking sunrise and sunset over the big rock. Uluru…

figures high up in the community would have spent much time. The ancient Egyptians always wanted to represent their power and their strength over enemies; even through their architecture. The statue was carved from sandstone, which was a popular material for construction at the time. Sandstone is not as durable as other stones. This perhaps emphasizes how much the Egyptians disliked non-Egyptians. The rather distressed…