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What a view that was in the middle of the night. Mist in the valleys and only top of the treeline was visible.
A small lochan glitters in the evening light on Sgurr Ghiubhsachain on the South side of Loch Shiel..
Another shot from my visit to Welcombe Mouth Beach the other week. Maybe not the most exciting photo in the world but I really loved the way the rock formations were layered in the cliff face here. I took a few shots showing the details of the rock but settled on this one with a tiny cave at the bottom of it giving some contrast to the rest of the cliff face. Sometime simple things can look quite interesting don't you think?
This photo is quite special for me... the longer I look at it - the more confused about the different layers I get... Do you see what I mean?
Taken from my elements project.
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I have always admired photos such as this but have never been in a place high enough to capture this. I really like the simplicity of it.
Over a period of 20 million years, giant fissures would split open the earth in eastern Washington, time after time spewing molten lava over tens of thousands of square miles, creating multiple layers of now dried and cracked basalt rock. So many layers that, in some places, there are over 10,000 feet of them. Each layer is about 75 to 100 feet thick, a few of which can be seen above near the Potholes Reservoir. These lava beds extend over eastern Washington between 3 rivers, the Spokane, Columbia and the Snake, and into parts of Idaho and Oregon. Then, about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, huge lakes of melt water were dammed up by arms of a glacier, which eventually melted, and this huge amount of water roared over the basalt beds, carving, tearing and gouging as it went, creating the Channeled Scablands visible today. The geology of eastern Washington is unique and well worth studying, and even better, visiting in person!
Sandstone with predominantly horizontal layers was formed beneath the sea that covered a large swath of North America. For example, the lower portion of this cliff shows layers of alternating colors. But the upper portion is different--sedimentary layers are not apparent, and the rock is predominantly white. But in addition, it has vertical lines known as desert varnish,
Desert varnish is a thin layer of microbes and accreted dust and fine sand. The varnish builds up slowly, perhaps the thickness of a human hair in 1,000 years. It is well developed in the white layer, but not apparent in the lower level.
Seven Mile Mesa, Utah.