Serendipity & Upheaval Dome
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Shatter cones with red markers
Shatter cones without red markers
Team member, D.G. Marston studies one the location of one small cluster of shatter cones on Upheaval Domes Syncline Loop Trail about 3/4 miles from the original location in the structure's crater.
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Location of find.
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Please call if additional images are needed: J.D. Byous 912-656-6539
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Shatter cones with "V" markers
Shatter cones without "V" markers
Google Earth view of Upheaval Dome from the north-northwest
Shatter cone from the Steinheim Basin, Germany, Wikipedia Commons
A shatter cone in limestone from the Steinheim Basin, Germany shows striations and inverted "V" shapes more readily than the medium to course Kayenta sandstone from Upheaval Dome. (Wikipedia Common photo).
A Google Earth view of Upheaval Dome in Canyonlands NP twenty miles from Moab, Utah.
A Hertzian cone in glass
A Hertzian cone in 5mm soda-lime plate glass with typical features, crater, mirror, mist area, hackles. A hackle flake still clings to the right side of the cone.
Shatter cones in Kayents sandstone from Upheaval Dome's southwestern rim. The inverted "V" shape is marked here in red. The cones are found along joints and cracks in the rock.
Shatter cones in Kayents sandstone from Upheaval Dome's southwestern rim. (Without inverted "V" shape is marked here in red.) The cones are found along joints and cracks in the rock.
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