Twin Lakes Panorama
Twin Lakes in Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest can be seen from the Beartooth Highway. In the distance is the canyon of The North Fork of Rock Creek. The rocks in this photo are part of an igneous and metamorphic complex that has been dated at between 2.8 and 2.6 billion years old. These crystalline rocks are part of the Wyoming Craton which was a microcontinent starting 2.6 BYA (billion years ago)cirque.
The lakes are glacial lakes that like in a cirque cut by a Pleistocene-aged glacier. The lakes lie in Wyoming but the Canyon is mostly in Montana. In this photo, the state line runs across the photo horizontally between the lakes and the deepest part of the Canyon.
Twin Lakes Panorama
Twin Lakes in Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest can be seen from the Beartooth Highway. In the distance is the canyon of The North Fork of Rock Creek. The rocks in this photo are part of an igneous and metamorphic complex that has been dated at between 2.8 and 2.6 billion years old. These crystalline rocks are part of the Wyoming Craton which was a microcontinent starting 2.6 BYA (billion years ago)cirque.
The lakes are glacial lakes that like in a cirque cut by a Pleistocene-aged glacier. The lakes lie in Wyoming but the Canyon is mostly in Montana. In this photo, the state line runs across the photo horizontally between the lakes and the deepest part of the Canyon.