Photographs from 420k Trip 2
Pennsylvanian Smithwick Fm. at Hamilton Creek

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All photos courtesy of Tony Troutman
 

 

Trace fossil Chondrites overprinting sole marks on a bedding plane of fine-grained Smithwick sandstone.

 

Chondrites (49552 bytes)
 

 

Frondescent flute casts, Smithwick Fm.

 

 

Frondescent flutes (54137 bytes)
 

 

More of the same.

 

 

Frondescent flutes 2 (47349 bytes)
 

 

Ripples, Smithwick Fm.

ripples (55110 bytes)
 

 

Dr. McBride explains boxwork liesegang banding in a float block of Smithwick sandstone.

smallliesegangboxwork.jpg (64465 bytes)
 

The Hamilton Creek falls at Mormon Mill expose the upthrown side of a fault bringing up older Pennsylvanian Marble Falls limestone (white) adjacent to lower lying and younger Smithwick Fm. sandstone and shale (foreground).

smallMarbleFallsFm.jpg (46575 bytes)

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