Photos by Raymond Coveney : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Throughout the Hopi Buttes Volcanic Field of the Navajo Nation, colorful lake sediments of the Miocene-Pliocene Bidahochi Formation have been intruded by igneous dikes and plugs that fed dark basalt flows 5 to 15 million years ago. Shonto Peak is distinguished by a prominent basalt dike appearing as a dark band extending from right to left 2/3 of the way across the photo. A lava cap largely protects the soft lake sediments of the butte from erosion. Future erosion and expansion of the dark triangular talus cones composed of fallen lava blocks will one day obscure these ancient geologic events.

Snowy owls sojourned far south of their normal range reaching northern Missouri during the winter of 2012.

spires of jointed sandstone in one of China's finest natural areas in NW Hunan.

Harris's sparrow occurs only in the western part of the central U.S.A. and Canada. The bird is the mascot of Kansas City's Burrough's Audubon Society With its distinctive black mask and bib Harris's sparrow can be found in hedgerows of rural Kansas City during the winter.

Amazing photo!! like

June 2012 solar transit of Venus from Kansas City MO U.S.A.

amazing!

What an amazing photo. Thank you for sharing.

Stream cut though a serpentinite unit in the Semail ophiolite. The white precipitate consists mainly of calcium carbonate.

The photo was taken some years ago in the Milliken Mine (now known as the West Fork).