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Each layer is unique and complex having the ability to tell a story of its own. Yet one cannot look at just one layer. It is but a tier of a whole...
www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_62/62-6-731.pdf)
I had this mountain in mind for this theme a while ago, however I just got around to taking this weeks photo. A very unique mountain and very interesting. The Pinnacle is in this photo, but it is hidden due to the angle from where I was standing. It was fun to do some extra research and I will be logging this geocache!
www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1F5VM_layer-cake-hill?guid=...
Geocache Description:
Layer Cake Hill, sometimes called Layer Cake Mountain, is a volcanic land form composed primarily of Dacite [day-site] (volcanic rock with a high iron content). It shows unique layering that has not been seen anywhere else.
Layering is expressed as thin layers separated by thick layers exposed along a weathered fault scarp. The compositions of the thick and thin layers are geochemically very similar. The thin layers represent veins generated during crystallization of the lava. The thin layers formed when the molten material contracted (shrunk) while cooling. Material was allowed to flow into the cracks formed by cooling. The material in the cracks further fractured when it cooled, and liquid material was allowed to enter the veins. The resulting rock was formed with a slightly different composition. The altered thin layers weather faster, thus visually showing the small primary chemical differences between thick and thin layers.
Approximately 50 million years ago, volcanoes erupted in the Kelowna area and along the Okanagan Valley. Since that time, erosion by large streams removed much of the volcanic bedrock, carving a broad deep valley along where Mission Creek now flows. The Ice Age eroded and carved the land by several glaciers during different times in the last one to two million years.
The last of these glaciers started to advance about 25,000 years ago and filled the valley higher than any of the mountains of the Okanagan today. It began to melt away about 15,000 years ago and finally disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
As the Glacier melted in the Mission Creek Valley, the valley was blocked or dammed for some time by large blocks of ice and debris in Gallagher's Canyon. Material deposited from the ice served to partly infill the ancient valley. But lots of ice remained and the ice was still melting. This produced a lot of water. The water could not escape because of the ice dam in the canyon. Therefore, a large lake was formed along the upstream part of Mission Creek Valley. The flat topped terraces along the present valley sides were on the bottom of this ancient lake.
Water built up in the glacial lake behind the ice dam and finally the dam burst about 10,000 years ago, and a catastrophic flood occurred. All of this rushing and turbulent water was responsible for cutting a steep-sided gorge along the face of Layer Cake and eroding what we now call Gallagher's Canyon. One side (the north side) of this gorge was the steep face of Layer Cake Hill. The south side does not show this erosion effect because it was still covered with a thick layer of ice and debris.
During this time when the lake was being drained at a very high rate, high flows of melt water were also arriving here from the KLO Creek valley. The combination of these water flows must have created a huge whirlpool that swirled around carving out a portion of Layer Cake Hill and finally forming a pinnacle of rock that we call the "Pinnacle" today
Really quite interesting how the mirrored surface takes on the colours of the surroundings. Very sky blue today.
For Beyond Layers with Kim Klassen
I went for simplicity in my edit here, with a square crop to the photo and two layers of Kim's Flourish texture at 37% hard light. I used a gradient overlay on the quote, which is a great one for those of us who like to play with photos and art, don't you think?
The font is "Loved by the King."
One of my photo club friends called and asked if I wanted to join him shooting barns near Waitsburg. Of course, I said yes. Wheat harvesting was still going on in the area. I've updated my Photomatix to the 4.0.2 version and it seems to be more user friendly. I'm still having to do work in Photoshop after the Photomatix treatment, but maybe it's because I'm getting pickier. I don't know.
If you notice the information above the map, it was taken in early August. Right now it probably is covered with snow and ice.
The layer-cake basalt slopes of Mt. Esja, seen over the rhyolite shoulder of Mt. Móskarðshnjúkar. Esja is a typical pre-ice age Icelandic mountain, made up of countless layers of dark basalt lava flows. The light-coloured rhyolite is rarer, found at the core of an extinct volcanic centre.
That coconut layer cake I baked 3 times in a week in November was so good that I had to make it again for the New Year's Eve party I attended.
Blogged at: www.boastfulbaker.com/?p=762
Three-Layer Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Recipe by Martha Stewart.
For the recipe, visit my blog Paris Pastry:
parispastry.blogspot.com/2010/03/easter-layer-carrot-cake...
Just a view from behind the little waterfall at the Calgary Zoo, looking up towards the sky. Beautiful layers of ice have formed and I liked the different shades of grey.
I will admit to trying to do this assignment in PSE – then decided that the Instagram thing just might be easier – and it was.
I’m so out of my element with it and my closest grand child is over 500 miles away. So I’ll be learning it on my own. I was caught up in capturing/sharing an image, that I forgot all about the hashtag thingy…also new to me. I can't even remember what filter I used on this image.
I think by the end of this week, I will get the hang of most of it. Will that make me an Insta-gram-ma?