Charlie Brown Outcrop 2/17-22/23

Iphone Starry Night shot!
Bedhead for Z
Hard to believe it gets 258% hotter here.
Hard to believe it gets 258% hotter here.
Detachment Faulting Model in Furnace Creek Visitor Center.
New mural works hung on the store front of the Shoshone market. Endemic species and scenes sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity.
The Charlie Brown outcrop has a lot going on. It’s a great place to practice the principles of original horizontality, cross-cutting relationships and faulting.…
The Charlie Brown outcrop has a lot going on. Here's the welded tuff
Close-up of normal faulting at the outcrop. (Yes, it IS normal faulting).
Close-up of normal faulting at the outcrop. (Yes, it IS normal faulting).
Students puzzle through the relationship of the rock layers.
Close-up shots of the various layers of tuff & flows.
Welded tuff getting cored for dating.
Great shot of the welded tuff that was insulated in middle of the ashfall and turned to glass.
Vesicles fill the upper portion of the welded tuff... where hot gasses were escaping to the surface.

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