Gallery of Geological Images

In this page are exposed  Photos and Figures selected for their geological interest (didatic usage, as a curiosity, its beauty or the assembling of these aspects). Click on the Thumbnail to see the image in its higher resolution with its caption.

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OTHER GALLERIES OF PHOTOS



High grade  Marble, Goianira, Goiás state

Boulder
of Inselberg in the Patos Plain, Paraíba state

Navidad Neck Lonquimay Volcanic system, Chile - december 1989

Araguainha Dome, Goiás-MatoGrosso state boundary - The largest astrobleme in South America

Sete Cidades (Seven Cities) National Park, Piauí State: Tortoise shell. Sixth City. 

Ultramilonite of the Patos fault, Paraíba state,
a fault more than 700 km long in northeastern of Brazil

Ornitopode Dinossaur track - Natural  Valley of the Dinossaurs Park (Rio do Peixe basin). Paraíba state, Brazil.

Atacama Desert, near San Pedro de Atacama, northern Chile.

Death Valley (Vale de la Muerte), northern Chile

Salar of Atacama, at the center of the Atacama Desert with evaporites.

The "Wineglass", erosive form developed on the Vila Velha Sandstone, Upper Carboniferous of the Itararé Group, Paraná Basin, Southern Brazil.

Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis
found in bituminous black shale in Rio Verde quarry (Goiás state)

Brejões Cave - Romão Gramacho creek
Chapada Diamantina - Bahia state

Pai Inácio anticline
Chapada Diamantina, Bahia state

Camelo Hill - erosional relict of anticline flank of Pai Inácio,central region of Bahia state. 

NEOPROTEROZOIC STROMATOLITES OF 
FAZENDA ARRECIFE, CHAPADA DIAMANTINA, BAHIA STATE

Turbiditic facies of Formación Arrayan - Cordillera de los Andes 
northern of Santiago - Chile

U shaped glacial valley 
Cuevas river, Argentina
Cordillera de los Andes 

Pai Inácio Hill - Chapada Diamantina
Oriental cliff - view from BR-242 road

Alluvial fan in the valley of San Juan river
road between San juan and Pachaco, Pre-codillera; Argentina


San Juan river, in the road between San Juan and Pachaco, Pre-cordillera; Argentina

Conglomerate in the Lençóis river 
at Serrano, lençóis, Bahia


Fold in limestones of the Votuverava Formation, Açungui Group

Basaltic pillows from Identidade greenstone belt, Pará state

Pinnacles - Nambung National Park, WA

Pillow lava structure in metabasalt - Crixás greenstone belt
 

Pseudo-stratification 
Vila Velha Sandstone, Upper Carboniferous of the Paraná Basin, Vila Velha State Park
Paraná State - Brazil
 

Vargeão astrobleme
Santa Catarina State - Brazil
(
SRTM Data)

Vargeão Astrobleme
Santa Catarina State - Brazil
(Landsat ETM+ image)

Dastilbe elongatus Santos cretaceous fossil fish - Crato member of Santana formation / Araripe plateau - PE/CE/PI states
 

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Illustrations of the Geological Glossary
Galeria de Fotos Históricas do IG/UnB

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