Falls cliffs mountains
Another view of North Clear Creek Falls not far from Creede in Colorado. The creek has carved a small canyon over the millenia and the falls probably were higher before the canyon was cut. This creek drains into the Rio Grande closer to Creede and like the Rio Grande, the water flow was up this year because of above normal snow in the nearby mountains last winter. The walls of the canyon are volcanic welded tuff (hot ash deposits fused into rock) from numerous large explosive eruptions in the area around 25 to 30 million years ago.
Falls cliffs mountains
Another view of North Clear Creek Falls not far from Creede in Colorado. The creek has carved a small canyon over the millenia and the falls probably were higher before the canyon was cut. This creek drains into the Rio Grande closer to Creede and like the Rio Grande, the water flow was up this year because of above normal snow in the nearby mountains last winter. The walls of the canyon are volcanic welded tuff (hot ash deposits fused into rock) from numerous large explosive eruptions in the area around 25 to 30 million years ago.