#schists

2023-12-07

When (micro)continents collide

#Silurian or #Devonian #metasediments / pellitic #schists / sulfidic schists
North Pack Monadnock, south central New Hampshire USA

Intensely folded rocks

Merrimack / Central Maine Trough smashed as #Avalonia joined Laurasia to start assembling Pangea in the #Acadian #Orogeny, about 375 million years ago.

Knowing some #geology makes hiking more fun!

Normally proportioned geochemist forelimb for scale
My #photo
Fujifilm X-H1 16 mm f/1.4 @ f/4 ⅛ s ISO 200 (IBIS)

The image is a color digital photograph 2 wide by 3 high. A finger is pointing to hard, tightly folded metamorphic rocks, which ripple across the frame.

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