Athabasca Falls, Jasper National Park, Jasper, Canada.
Athabasca Falls in Jasper National Park is not the highest or the widest waterfall in the Canadian Rockies but it is the most powerful. The full width of the Athabasca River is funneled into a three metre gap and over the brink of the falls. Despite what the interpretive signs say, most of the rock is not limestone, it is actually gog quartzite, and ounce for ounce it's as strong as steel. And as you can well imagine, it would take a very powerful waterfall to cut through steel.
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Athabasca Falls, Jasper National Park, Jasper, Canada.
Athabasca Falls in Jasper National Park is not the highest or the widest waterfall in the Canadian Rockies but it is the most powerful. The full width of the Athabasca River is funneled into a three metre gap and over the brink of the falls. Despite what the interpretive signs say, most of the rock is not limestone, it is actually gog quartzite, and ounce for ounce it's as strong as steel. And as you can well imagine, it would take a very powerful waterfall to cut through steel.
For video, please visit youtu.be/xMQdt5S-SQ4