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Image of the Day — Slab of Rinconada Formation

Posted: Sunday, February 4, 2024

photograph

Folded and faulted block of metasedimentary Rinconada formation in the Picurus Mountains.

Image taken: 06/30/2017
by: Nels Iverson
© 2017

Longitude: -105.826923609
Latitude: 36.2164601546
  (WGS 84 or NAD 83)

About this image

This outcrop is a great example of a metaconglomerate. Quartzite cobbles and pebbles have been dramatically stretched into ribbons.

Image posted: 06-04-2020