Hiking through the leaves and past the waterfalls of Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the fall
The New Madrid Seismic Zone About once a year, residents of the counties at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas will feel the ground roll beneath their feet. This image maps out the location of earthquakes in this area over a 30-year period and clearly illustrates a major feature: the New Madrid Seismic Zone. This zone produces about 1 quake that can be felt per year in addition to many small earthquakes…and has historically produced really big ones.
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| An early morning flight over the eastern hardwood forest of the southern Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. The forest here is beautiful and also a critical piece of Earth's ecosystem. Forests produce oxygen and lock up huge amounts of atmospheric carbon. But across the globe our forests are under siege. Right now the Amazon is burning at an unprecedented rate, and a NASA study out recently says that forest fires in the far north are burning with increased severity. Because of climate change, the fire season in the north is getting longer. Bigger, more frequent fires are releasing greenhouse gasses from the forest and also sending carbon that has long been locked away in the soil up into the atmosphere
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I had one day in Eastern Tennessee to see as many waterfalls as I could. With heavy rain in the forecast later that day, I found myself trail running to try to fit as many waterfalls in as I could. I managed to visit a few before it started raining but then as I was making my way to this waterfall, it started sprinkling and then turned into a downpour on the hike out. Luckily I was able to see this waterfall, my favorite of the trip, before it really started raining. And luckily I had my
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rainshell with me to shield my camera from the storm on the hike out. All in all, a wonderful and wet adventure in Eastern Tennessee.
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- Wind blows through a field of clover on a family farm in Middle Tennessee. I've spent much of this spring with @landtrusttn seeing their work in helping farmers keep family farms like this one running and productive. #home
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Tennessee in autumn
- Its rained hard in Tennessee since I've been home. Foster Falls was running high and beautiful yesterday. We only had a short break between showers. #superslowmotion
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In the heart of this Appalachian winter, we took a trip to see two of the Blue Ridge's most prominent features: Laurel Fork Falls and Roan Mountain. Throughout the day, the weather grew progressively snowier and more awe-inspiring each moment. Four of my closest friends and I spent the entire day exploring the region as the winter storm approached and we were able to capture a uniquely beautiful experience.
"The temp. is distinctly alpine and for the first time since leaving home feel like my old self. I have been quite miserable but this air has healed me." – John Muir, atop Roan Mountain, in a letter to his wife
My determined and fun-loving hiking companions, in order of appearance, are Casey Clark, Jordan Clark (of no relation), Mitchell Griest, and Alex Gorey. Mitchell and I alternated holding the camera and to eliminate any confusion, I'm the guy in the burnt-red jacket.
00:00 – Intro 01:10 – Early morning 03:07 – Casey & the Ice 04:12 – Jordan & the Duel 05:30 – Interlude 06:50 – The Ridges 08:18 – Walking along the River 10:35 – Mitchell & the Falls 12:20 – Alex & the Evening 13:00 – The Summit 14:22 – Outro
Filmed on: Sony A7s mkII Minolta MC 28mm f/2.8 Minolta MD 55mm f/1.9
Music: Borrtex – "I'm Here for You" Borrtex – "You Are Not Alone"
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Spray/splash cliff community forming on open limestone at a found waterfall along the Appalachian Trail, Tennessee
Folded
This beautiful exposure of rocks is part of Bays Mountain, a mountain in the Valley and Ridge province of Tennessee. The vertical lines you see across the road cut are the remnant of dynamiting to allow the road to pass; workers drilled holes in the rock from above and placed dynamite into the holes. When they detonated the dynamite, it blasted away all the rock that used to be where the photographer was standing; creating a solid cliff that won’t collapse when a road is built next to it. The vertical lines are the remnants of the holes drilled for dynamiting.
These rocks started their life as sediments during the Ordovician. At that time, much of what is today the east coast of the United States sat underwater accumulating sediments. These layers are a mixture of carbonates and fine-grained shales, accumulated in quiet water far from the ancient coastline. These layers are part of a geologic unit known as the Sevier shale; several hundred meters of sediment much like this accumulated during this time period. A few hundred million years later, the continent of Africa came rafting in and collided with North America, uplifting the Appalachian Mountains and folding and faulting the sediments deposited off the coastlines of the two continents.
These rocks today are part of the Valley and Ridge province; if you travel through this part of the country, you’ll find long mountain ranges running north-south that are the remnant of these folded and faulted sediments.
These rocks have been warped into a syncline. They’ve been bent up on the sides, a type of fold where the youngest rocks are in the center of the fold. The opposite type of fold is an anticline; in that case, the rocks are bowed upwards in the center, so that the oldest rocks are at the center of the fold. Ironically, this syncline is forming the core of a long ridge even though it seems like the rocks have been folded downwards.
In this case, the folding happened so long ago that even though these rocks were a syncline, the folding is not controlling the topography, erosion is. The rocks at the center of the syncline are harder to erode than the rocks on the limbs, so the center of the syncline is standing up as a mountain today. Something very similar happens at the incredible Sideling Hill outcrop farther north (https://tmblr.co/Zyv2Js1yyAl37).
If you look at the image closely, you can see all sorts of fractures that have been filled with newly grown minerals. These are especially common right at the axis of the fold, where the rocks have been bent the most.
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Exploring the hills, waterfalls, wildlife, and outcrops of the Thunderhead Sandstone in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Original caption:
We knew last year after we ended our vacation at the smokies that we had to come back, now a year later we were super exited to drive back. The cabin we rented last year was occupied so we found another one, on top of the mountain it said…they forgot to mention the wild off road with creeks to cross and angles that were almost to steep to drive without a 4×4.So we ended up in a cabin roosa’s nest super nice house with great mountain views after a long day we opened up a bottle of wine to cheers on the beginning of a two week mountain adventure…
Our goal was to visit new places and hopefully see and film some wildlife, and make more time lapses then last year. On our first day we explored the area of Glenn falls in highlands NC and was pleasantly surprised that the trail started on top of the waterfall, what an amazing view with the mountain ranges in the background. Usually most waterfalls are surrounded with woods and no wide range views but this one had it all…all three stages of the trail had different views very nice. So we drove back the next day with all our gear even more than last year but it was all worth it to make some incredible footage.
To make some nice fog time lapses we decided this year to go to black rock mountain state park just over the border in Georgia. The park offers many great overlooks so that was perfect one overlook was a hike of two miles it said moderate to strenuous, but had the feeling that was an understatement of course with all the pounds of gear on your body it clouds your judgment.
Back at the cabin we took Chucky (yes he is still with us almost 15 year old jack Russell now, he also loves the mountains) for a walk in the huge backyard of the house it was more a private forest and the owner had several wildlife viewing chairs in the trees that was an extra bonus. Chucky found part of a skull still not sure what animal but it had some big teeth, from that moment we start hearing sounds around us and saw a deer jump away unfortunately we didn’t have our camera so no footage of the deer. We did see two deer again a groundhog and many birds. With the wildlife chairs in the trees and noises surrounding us, we felt like we were secluded from the world although it was just in the back yard. Veerle stayed one full day in there filming with her canon T3i and told me she could easily spend an extra two weeks just in the back yard.
One late afternoon we drove to Panther town valley west entrance I had read on the website they call it the Yosemite of the east… so that says a lot. The drive up there reminded us somewhat back of Yosemite with walls of rock only smaller then the real deal in Yosemite of course… that afternoon we only did the salt rock view but oh boy what a view. We met a guy that explained us what mountains we were looking at and he was so kind he even gave us his trail map because we wanted to come back the next day to capture this beauty.
Then it was time for us to go find some elk we drove to the south entrance of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and stopped at the Oconaluftee visitor center with the mountain farm museum. As we were walking into the farm museum we could hear in the distance a haunting scream no it was not a lost soul trapped in the farm building, it was an elk bull bulging in the distance. It was the first time in my life I heard that sound in real life from that moment the beautiful farm building wasn’t able to keep us there we packed up our stuff to go find the animal.
We hiked all the trails around the area and had no luck several hours later we drove to a field by the job center located behind the visitor center and there he was Big Daddy as the locals call him. With his 12 cows a real Casanova he was running from one lady to another lady all very beautiful to look at but very hard to capture. Next day we drove back there and there he was again this time they all were grazing the beautiful fields and was able to capture some nice footage. Veerle also captured some footage of another bull later in the day by the farm buildings and is going to make a video with the wildlife and birds from the smokies as well as a time lapse movie.
We felt so grateful to be there and see these beautiful creatures this was at the end of our vacation. The last day we left my camera at the home and did some sightseeing a long the Blue Ridge Parkway and Soco falls where Veerle made her last time lapse of the two week adventure in the Smoky Mountains. Nature is so powerful to be able to capture a little fraction of it make me feel so strong yet so vulnerable…
Here are some pictures we took with the Iphone. Equipment we have used is the Sony PMW-F3 uncompressed S-log, Canon T3, Canon 40D, Nikon lenses, Kessler motorized Cine Slider etc….
A white stripe across the landscape The path of this snow laden storm earlier this month ran across the continental USA from Alabama to Delaware, leaving behind a clear mark of its passage to be snapped by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's AQUA satellite. The higher ground to the north also copped some flakes, revealing the shape of the tectonically disturbed rocks as white highlights on the ridges. Loz Image credit: NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2kLW47r
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In places that are not #seismically active, it is allowed to build stacked cinderblock foundations on small poured-concrete footings. #seismology #platetectonics #geology #nashville #Tennessee #construction (at Urbandale Nations, Nashville, Tennessee)
Areas may only be seismically inactive until they are not. Nashville is sandwiched between 2 of the more interesting seismic areas in the US - the New Madrid Fault Zone and the East Tennessee Seismic Zone. The New Madrid zone produced major earthquakes in the early 1800s that would have shaken this site and there is geologic evidence of major quakes in the East Tennessee Seismic Zone in the past (faults with major offsets have been mapped)
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