Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: Big

Like many of the South Wales coal mines the Big Pit at Blaenavon was located high up on the valley side above the village. What's missing at what is now a museum is the huge spoil tip that loomed behind the site when it was active. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

I'm not 100% sure where this was taken but it was definitely on the Mobil Oil West Texas Geology Fieldtrip. It looks like a canyon cut into sandstones and shales with maybe flatter lying volcanics on the skyline. It may be part of Cow Heaven anticline in Big Bend National Park. It was certainly taken from the roadside because we didn't hike into the bush at all on this trip. Lots of bare rock walls around these parts! HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

Terlingua graveyard in West Texas on the northern edge of Big Bend National Park. The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in the mid-1880s brought miners to the Terlingua area, creating a city of 2,000 people. The only remnants of the mining days are a ghost town of the Chisos Mining Company and several nearby capped and abandoned mines. The population today is 78! Terlingua features in Wim Wenders' movie Paris, Texas. HFF everyone. Enjoy your Easter weekend.

The Window & the Chisos Mountains looking west from the lodge in the Chisos Basin at the centre of Big Bend National Park out towards the Chihuahua desert. The Chisos Mountains are mainly of igneous origin and were erupted and deposited during the Cenozoic. The oldest rocks in the mountains are volcanic ash, mixtures of ash and clay, sandstone, and conglomerates.