Fish Creek and steep valley slope, Calgary

In the western part of Fish Creek Provincial Park, southwest Calgary.

 

Note how some of the trees up on the steep slope are in the process of tipping/falling over (rotating downslope, toward the river). Erosion is removing the soil, destabilizing the bases of some of the trees. The trunks of dead trees that can be seen in the shallow river may have fallen in following such a slope erosion history.

 

C. J.R. Devaney

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