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Looking up at the first - largest - dome, Enchanted Rock Natural Area. Hiking this place often allows you to get in shape fast.
lichen community on ancient (1.082 =/- 0.06 billion years) granite (see uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rmr/tmg.html ); note large microcline crystals
Hill Country, Texas
old slide scanned
Enchanted Rock is a giant pink granite batholith in the heart of the Texas Hill Country between Fredericksburg & Llano. This view is looking south from the side opposite the park headquarters.
Enchanted Rock, falling granite 1970s.
35mm slides scanned with digital camera's macro function. How here's something funny. I don't recall whatsoever the campers just above the bottom of the photo. Even had a tent that blends in too well with the landscape for me to have noticed. Ah, nothing like examining your photo after the film is developed or the image is downloaded:-)
Fissure and fracture of granite due to forces of gravity and slippage downslope. Exfoliation of granite dome.
Boulder on top of Enchanted Rock, a huge and amazing giant granite dome in West Texas near Fredricksburg. The dome "sheds" sheets and layers of rock that break into animal cracker shapes. Amazing place, lots of animals adapted to it, (saw pink grasshoppers and lizards). Native Americans in this area thought it sacred and you can still feel that... especially at night, when it sparks and moans in the moonlight.