We’re moving right along with our campus geotour – it’s amazing geology students ever get any class time in, considering how much there is to distract a person on the way to class, and we’ve only just got started.
Stop 9. Milne Hall
So here’s a place with lovely marble accents.
This is the kind of marble we think of when someone says “marble.” But there’s quite another kind of marble in the other foyer.
I felt like I was in a box of squashed zebras in that foyer, actually. But it was intriguing.
Stop 10: Strand Agricultural Hall
So here’s where I have to get a bit creative. This is cross-bedded sandstone, and it is awesome, but its awesomeness did not photograph so well. That’s what I get for trying to shoot subtle features in very dim light. I’m screaming for joy that my camera managed the feat at all.
By the end of a very short visit to this locale, I was discerning cross-cutting relationships like a pro – well, at least an apprentice. Easy-peasy, and awesome! I don’t know if it’ll be at all easy doing it from photos, but if anybody wants to download things to mark up, they are more than welcome to play round with it.
Next, we’ll be on to the Memorial Union, where we’ll be subjected to one of the worst jokes ever that still somehow ends up being funny…
Nice marble stairway – would be great for a fashion shoot.
Processing tip: Use graphics editing software and change the image to the mode called grayscale to make details clearer. That and the “unsharp mask” filter might help.
Man, those photos at Strand really emphasize how amazingly good the human eye is at what it does- even these tired old specimens. The cross-bedding is so obvious in person, but so subtle in the photos, even the processed versions.
OK, all this looking at building-stone reminds of something I saw last spring, and swear to gawd, when I saw it I thought about ETEV but never quite got around to sending it. It’s some agate(?) inclusions in the columns of a church in Rouen, France. Here’s a picture. Lots of the columns in this building (Eglise St. Ouen) had this stuff and they kinda lined it up so the fist-sized raisins are dotted along at approximately the same level down the aisle. The builders clearly thought, can’t fix it, let’s feature it.
Tried to enhance the contrast a bit of one picture of the column. See the result(s) here.
Take as needed and drop me a note if you want me to delete that post.
I’m a bit surprised Lockwood didn’t look around for a source of water to splash on the cross-bedded sandstone columns. It’s an old field geologist’s trick to bring out contrast in an outcrop. Of course, you might have run afoul of campus security if they saw you wetting down the columns with an unknown liquid.
Slightly (but only slightly) OT, someone was looking for an intro geology textbook. Here is a free one online. Not as comfy as a real book, but the price is right.
Nice marble stairway – would be great for a fashion shoot.
Processing tip: Use graphics editing software and change the image to the mode called grayscale to make details clearer. That and the “unsharp mask” filter might help.
love the texture you brought out on the pillars.
Man, those photos at Strand really emphasize how amazingly good the human eye is at what it does- even these tired old specimens. The cross-bedding is so obvious in person, but so subtle in the photos, even the processed versions.
OK, all this looking at building-stone reminds of something I saw last spring, and swear to gawd, when I saw it I thought about ETEV but never quite got around to sending it. It’s some agate(?) inclusions in the columns of a church in Rouen, France. Here’s a picture. Lots of the columns in this building (Eglise St. Ouen) had this stuff and they kinda lined it up so the fist-sized raisins are dotted along at approximately the same level down the aisle. The builders clearly thought, can’t fix it, let’s feature it.
Love that marble staircase. Home decorating ideas, part II.
Tried to enhance the contrast a bit of one picture of the column. See the result(s) here.
Take as needed and drop me a note if you want me to delete that post.
I’m a bit surprised Lockwood didn’t look around for a source of water to splash on the cross-bedded sandstone columns. It’s an old field geologist’s trick to bring out contrast in an outcrop. Of course, you might have run afoul of campus security if they saw you wetting down the columns with an unknown liquid.
Mmmmm, crossbedding! Horribly difficult to photograph; you did well.
Slightly (but only slightly) OT, someone was looking for an intro geology textbook. Here is a free one online. Not as comfy as a real book, but the price is right.