Land Before Time... + Son! by lick.a.witch
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See? Standing right on top of that cliff is No. 1 son and the reason all children - from 9 month's (that's when my son walked) - to 30 - at least - should be on reins! You can add Barney to that list! He also has a penchant for climbing anything which gives him a better view of his world!
Other than that gripe - I found this the other day. I thought I'd trashed it because it really isn't a good image, but now I'm thankful I didn't. Even though not brilliant, it still shows the volcanic beginning of our planet. When I first saw this it brought home to me the fact that we still walk on this stuff in its liquid form, albeit (thankfully!) a long way below us! It truly must have been an amazing sight way back then - from a distance of course! ^=^
I found this at Sciencedirect.com. - and for the record, I have no idea what on earth it is on about!
*Repeated folding of the Boscastle Measures, a group of thinly bedded sandstones and shales of presumed Upper Carboniferous age, has led to the development of small-scale superimposed structures. The earliest folds are now isoclinal with a strongly developed axial-plane slaty cleavage and a prominent mineral elongation parallel to fold axes. Although the regional trend of the southern margin of the Culm Measures trough of north Cornwall and mid-Devon is east to west, the early folds at Boscastle are recumbent with predominantly a gentle plunge to the north. Of lesser importance is the more nearly east to west trend of some isoclines. It is suggested that the two trends of isoclines may be linked in synchronous right-angled combinations, and that this pattern may be reflected on a large scale in the outcrops south of Boscastle. The isoclines are deformed by small-scale east to west zigzags, believed to be related to northwards movements down major low-angle normal faults which are parallel to the gently inclined bedding.*
So now you know! ^=^
Thank you for taking the time to look. ^=^
Comments (7)
jayfar
This is a fabulous example of the folding of molten rock. Great shot and info.
durleybeachbum
Well I read that..Mmmm! Marvellous pic!!
tennesseecowgirl
Sounds like my son.. I once had a neighbor at my door having a fit because my son had climbed up in her tree, and I thought and yes... ?? she had three daughters so I let her little hissy fit go she just didn't get it.. lol nice work.
sharky_
Feels like I've been here before, felt the heat and walked over the hot lava surface. You can see the different layers of rocks. Excellent capture. Aloha
jmb007
bonne photo!!
Blush
Excellent image Hugs Susan~
Chipka
What a shot! WOW! WOW! WOW! Earth has some interesting features and well...I read the techno-babble (it's in pure nerd-format, which means that it's not intended for muggles like us to understand. I think I'm a nerd, because I understood it. Translation: Once, a long time ago, this stuff was squishy and flat, and probably very hot, then it got gritty because sand blew (or was washed) onto it as it was underwater and underwater environments are full of sand, then it rose above sea level and was a bit squishy with sand in it, so it oozed around with gritty bits. Because the different plates making up the Earth's surface like to jiggle around a lot, everything got wrinkly, then squishy again until earth-surface jiggle pushed this piece of stuff up above sea level, where it got dry and solid and not squishy at all. Those plates jiggling around are still jiggling...a bit like a geological polka, only very, very slow. And so the jiggles are making this hardened squishy stuff shift location on the planetary surface, and after jigging and getting squishy and gritty and drying, it has drawn the attention of a least two species of smart, social mammals who like to get up on top of it and have a look around while pretending not to experience vertigo." I'm sure there's a more elegant way to say that, but that's the gist of it. Scientists are allergic to words like "squishy"...unless they're quantum physicists, then they go overboard with the "squishy" descriptors. This is a dramatic and wonderful photo! I love the scale of this, and let's just say that my ONE Geology course came in handy when I read what you'd quoted. That's kinda scary in a good way. I love this shot!