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CareyPhotography > Torrey Sandstone is a middle Eocene (48,000,000 years old) rock formation originally deposited as a sandbar. The loose sand was cemented later by calcite from water flowing through the sand. Few fossils are found in the sandstone because not many creatures live in a sand bar.
CareyPhotography > Torrey Sandstone is a middle Eocene (48,000,000 years old) rock formation originally deposited as a sandbar. The loose sand was cemented later by calcite from water flowing through the sand. Few fossils are found in the sandstone because not many creatures live in a sand bar.
CareyPhotography > A glider (sailplane) soars along the ridgelift at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California.
CareyPhotography > A glider (sailplane) soars along the ridgelift at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California.
CareyPhotography > "When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: there will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught to fly."

— Patrick Overton


A glider (sailplane) soars along the ridgelift at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California.
CareyPhotography > "It’s a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing … rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone." - Frank Borman, U.S. Astronaut



Torrey Pines Sandstone
Torrey Sandstone is a middle Eocene (48,000,000 years old) rock formation originally deposited as a sandbar. The loose sand was cemented later by calcite from water flowing through the sand. Few fossils are found in the sandstone because not many creatures live in a sand bar.
CareyPhotography > Torrey Sandstone is a middle Eocene (48,000,000 years old) rock formation originally deposited as a sandbar. The loose sand was cemented later by calcite from water flowing through the sand. Few fossils are found in the sandstone because not many creatures live in a sand bar.
Torrey Sandstone is a middle Eocene (48,000,000 years old) rock formation originally deposited as a sandbar. The loose sand was cemented later by calcite from water flowing through the sand. Few fossils are found in the sandstone because not many creatures live in a sand bar.
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