Namibia photos from Laura
My former Honors student Laura graduated from NOVA a year ago and transferred to the University of Virginia. But during her second semester at UVA, she joined the SEA Semester program, and sailed around the world.
During Honors presentations this year, current Honors student Kristen (and friend of Laura's) brought in a gift from Laura: a collection of rocks and photos from Namibia, one of their ports of call on the trip.
With Laura's permission, I'm sharing some of the photos here today.
The scene in the Namib Desert:
Note the black stripe on the crest of the hill in this shot:
It appears to be a dike of basalt/dolerite/mafic rock:
Boulders of the mafic rock go tumbling down a ravine:
The SEA Semester group's campsite:
Laura pulls a folded & boudinaged granite dike out of her hat:
Closer shot of the geology:
The rock cross-cut by the granite dike. Namibian dollar for scale; same size as American quarter:
Little tafoni hole:
Bigger tafoni holes:
Medium-sized collection of tafoni holes:
While I'm sharing other people's Namibia photos, go check out the collection from Greg Willis, a blog reader who attended the GSW spring field trip on Sunday.
Thanks, Laura, for the rocks and for the photos!
During Honors presentations this year, current Honors student Kristen (and friend of Laura's) brought in a gift from Laura: a collection of rocks and photos from Namibia, one of their ports of call on the trip.
With Laura's permission, I'm sharing some of the photos here today.
The scene in the Namib Desert:
Note the black stripe on the crest of the hill in this shot:
It appears to be a dike of basalt/dolerite/mafic rock:
Boulders of the mafic rock go tumbling down a ravine:
The SEA Semester group's campsite:
Laura pulls a folded & boudinaged granite dike out of her hat:
Closer shot of the geology:
The rock cross-cut by the granite dike. Namibian dollar for scale; same size as American quarter:
Little tafoni hole:
Bigger tafoni holes:
Medium-sized collection of tafoni holes:
While I'm sharing other people's Namibia photos, go check out the collection from Greg Willis, a blog reader who attended the GSW spring field trip on Sunday.
Thanks, Laura, for the rocks and for the photos!
2 Comments:
That looks like the Orange River Dyke swarm. Fish River canyon area in Southern Namibia. Not really the Namib Desert although it is nearly as dry.
Hi Callan
I'm from Namibia :) if you can find out the location of the photos I can tell you a bit about the geology.
It does look like the the area around the Orange River and the Fish River. Some of them also look like they might have been taken near Swakopmund.
Cat
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