Image of the Day — Slab of Rinconada Formation
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Posted: Monday, May 5, 2025
Folded and faulted block of metasedimentary Rinconada formation in the Picurus Mountains.
Image taken:
06/30/2017
by: Nels Iverson
©
2017
Longitude: -105.826924
Latitude: 36.21646
(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