Road side entertainment

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Best road cut ever? Quite possibly. Fall out from several episodes of activity at Chimborazo volcano. Zoomed out version below:

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Awesome

Voted 10/10

Interesting layering here, is that earthquake related???

Posted Apr 14, 2008 12:15 am


	Baarb	Re: Awesome
	Hasn't voted	Yeah it's pretty cool. Actually they are air-fall deposits from a couple of volcanic eruptions when Chimborazo used to be active many moons ago. The change in angle halfway up comes from erosion during the interim period. Think I'll put up the zoomed out version too.
		Posted May 3, 2008 4:44 am

called an

Hasn't voted

Angular Unconformity.

Posted May 5, 2008 6:15 pm


	Baarb	Re: called an
	Hasn't voted	ha, thanks, i really should take a structure class :D
		Posted May 7, 2008 2:30 am

Very interesting

Voted 10/10

nice photo.

Posted Oct 13, 2008 5:08 pm


	Baarb	Re: Very interesting
	Hasn't voted	Thank you. I wonder how many other visitors to Chimborazo pay attention to these kinds of formations....?
		Posted Oct 14, 2008 12:54 am