{"id":3792,"date":"2018-07-02T09:08:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2018-07-02T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:08:59","slug":"flat-gap-mountain-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2018\/07\/02\/flat-gap-mountain-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Gap Mountain | VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/about-david-allio\/brief\/biography\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/photography\/2018\/flat-gap-mountain-wise-county-va-2018va0024.jpg\" title=\"aerial photography Flat Gap Mountain Wise County Virginia\" alt=\"aerial photography Flat Gap Mountain Wise County Virginia\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Flat Gap Mountain<\/em> <small>&#8211; Aerial America Collection<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p>West of Wise, Virginia, are the etched remains of Flat Gap Mountain. The stratigraphic sequence exposed in the area is approximately 4800 feet thick and ranges in age from Upper Mississippian to Middle Pennsylvanian. This sequence is mainly siltstone, sandstone, and coal, although a few beds of shale and limestone are present.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%><\/center><small>camera: <b>FC220<\/b> | aerial platform: <b>DJI Mavic Pro<\/b><br \/>focal length: 4.7mm | exposure: f\/2.2 | 1\/1923 | iso 100<\/small><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%><\/center><small><\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Nolde, Jack E, et al. \u201cGeology of the Virginia Portion of the Flat Gap Quadrangle.\u201d Geology of the Virginia Portion of the Flat Gap Quadrangle, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, 1988, www.dmme.virginia.gov\/commercedocs\/PUB_71.pdf.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat Gap Mountain Wise County Virginia aerial photography by David Allio, callsign Papa Drone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409,280,124,488],"tags":[1109,347,914],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sedimentary-rock","category-southwest-virginia","category-va-virginia","category-wise-county-va","tag-dji-mavic-pro","tag-landscape-photography","tag-va-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21yji-Za","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}