John Louie's Aerial Geology


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Most of these shots were taken from Southwest Airlines flights over California and Nevada, in 2002-2007 with a Canon S330 camera, and enhanced in Adobe Photoshop.

Copyright information: John Louie is the author of all of the images linked below, and has placed them in the public domain. You are free to use these images in any way. Acknowledgments are always appreciated; please write to louie@seismo.unr.edu to let John know whether you find these images useful.

Click on the images for 1600x1200-pixel versions (the maximum resolution available).

New Aerials, inlcuding New Zealand:

Search for geographic names on the page linked above.
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Pre-2005 Aerials:

The images are arranged into 8 sub-pages in alphabetical order below by geographic name. More general geologic names are at the end.
Albuquerque+Rio-Grande.jpg
Anza.jpg
Arc-Dome.jpg
Borrego-Valley.jpg
Boulder-Canyon.jpg
Boundary-Peak.jpg
Calico-Basin.jpg
Carson-City.jpg
Carson-Dixie.jpg
Central-Walker-Lane.jpg
Charleston-Pk.jpg
Clouds-Sierra.jpg
Coachella-Valley.jpg
Columbia-Gorge.jpg
Columbia-Riv+Mt-Adams.jpg
Crater-Flat-Yucca-Mtn.jpg
Cuyamaca-Val.jpg
Daylight-Pass.jpg
Deep-Springs-Val.jpg
Elk-Hills.jpg
Eureka-Val.jpg
Fairview-Dixie.jpg
Fairview.jpg
Fallon-Dixie.jpg
Fenced-Up-Horse-Val.jpg
Fish-Lake-Val.jpg
Fish-Springs-Val.jpg
Foster-Canyon.jpg
Frenchman-Mtn-south.jpg
Frenchman-Mtn.jpg
Ft-Churchill.jpg
Funeral-Range-core-cpx.jpg
Funeral-Range.jpg
Furnace-Creek-fault.jpg
Garnet-Mtn.jpg
Genoa.jpg
Grand-Canyon-Hualapai.jpg
W-Grand-Can.jpg
Granite-Spring-Canyon.jpg
Havasu-Canyon.jpg
Hilton-Peavine-snow.jpg
Hoover-Dam-tele.jpg
Hoover-Dam.jpg
Hualapai-Can.jpg
Hurricane-Cliffs.jpg
Indio.jpg
Kings-Can.jpg
Kingsbury-Grade.jpg
Lake-Mead-west.jpg
Las-Vegas+Frenchman-Mtn.jpg
Las-Vegas-Wash.jpg
Leaf-Hill-salt-dome.jpg
Lockwood.jpg
Long-Val-Caldera.jpg
Luther-Pass.jpg
Marlette-Tahoe.jpg
Mentmore.jpg
Mina.jpg
Moenkopi-dunes.jpg
Mono-Tuolumne.jpg
Mono-tableland.jpg
Mt-Grant.jpg
Mt-Hood-zoom.jpg
Mt-Hood.jpg
Mt-Laguna.jpg
Mt-Rainier.jpg
Mt-St-Helens-Spirit-Lake.jpg
Mt-St-Helens-Toutle-Riv.jpg
Mt-St-Helens-blast.jpg
Mt-St-Helens-rivers.jpg
Mt-St-Helens-west.jpg
Mt-St-Helens.jpg
Mts-Hood+Adams.jpg
Mts-St-Helens+Adams.jpg
Mts-St-Helens+Rainier.jpg
W-Nevada-clouds.jpg
Nipple-Butte.jpg
Nopah-Ra.jpg
North-Rim-fire.jpg
Oak-Spring-Val.jpg
Old-Spanish-Trail-Hwy.jpg
Pahrump-Stewart-Val.jpg
Pahrump-Val.jpg
Pahute-Mesa.jpg
Painted-Desert.jpg
Parkfield.jpg
Peavine-Reno-snow.jpg
Pinon-Flat.jpg
Prewitt-plant.jpg
Pyramid-Lake.jpg
Red-Rock-gypsum-mine.jpg
Red-Rock-thrust.jpg
Red-Rock.jpg
Red-Rocks-NM.jpg
N-Reno-snow.jpg
Ridge-Basin.jpg
San-Andreas-flt-Carrizo.jpg
SAF-Garlock.jpg
SAF-WMojave.jpg
San-Fernando-Val.jpg
San-Francisco-Volc.jpg
San-Francisco-volc-Painted-Desert.jpg
Santa-Clara-Riv.jpg
Santa-Monica-Mts.jpg
Scottys-Castle.jpg
Separation-Canyon.jpg
Separation-Can.jpg
Shivwitz-Plat.jpg
Sierra-reservoirs.jpg
Singatse-Ra.jpg
So-Pahrump-OSTH.jpg
So-Pahrump-Val-Fault.jpg
So-Pahrump-fans.jpg
South-Meadows.jpg
Sparks-RNO.jpg
Spring-Mts-anticline.jpg
Squaw-Peak.jpg
Summer-Lake-faulting.jpg
Summer-Lake.jpg
Sunset-Crater-basalt-field.jpg
Tejon-Pass.jpg
Temple-Bar.jpg
Tincanebitts-Canyon.jpg
Titus-Canyon.jpg
Tolani-faulting.jpg
Truckee-Meadows-E.jpg
Truckee-Meadows.jpg
Tuolumne-snow.jpg
Twin-Lakes.jpg
Verdi-snow.jpg
Virginia-City.jpg
Walker-Lk.jpg
Walker-shore.jpg
Warm-Springs-Val.jpg
Washoe-Lake.jpg
Washoe-Val.jpg
Whitewater-River-delta.jpg
Whitney.jpg
Wilson-Ridge.jpg
Yerington-Pit.jpg
Yosemite-White.jpg
Yucca-Mtn-north.jpg
accommodation-zone.jpg
badlands.jpg
basalt-flow.jpg
desert-meanders.jpg
dry-meanders.jpg
eroding-fan.jpg
extensional-faulting.jpg
flatirons.jpg
headward-erosion.jpg
in-sunset-clouds.jpg
listric-backtilt.jpg
rifts.jpg
salt-domes.jpg
volcanic-plug.jpg
wing-and-clouds.jpg

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