Re: Purple ZR-1 Road Trip to Yellowstone and the Pacific Northwest
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Originally Posted by QB93Z
The power of nature to shape a landscape was dramatically on display in every area of the park:
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Thrilling pix, you two!
A "factoid" you may already know, but the "badlands" is the result of ash from an ancient "super volcano(s)" which have punched through the earth's crust, marching to the northeast, beginning in southern Utah, some 2.1 million years ago, IIRC. The northern end of the string of 3 eruptions, and the location of its latest caldera, is Yellowstone Park.
Ash from the eruptions covers (especially) the western portions North and South Dakota and Wyoming and parts of Montana; the deepest deposits forming the white, gritty, (very slippery when wet!!) "badlands" resulting form the erosion of the ash, leaving spires capped with harder volcanic rocks as the softer ash eroded from under them (See Lyndi with formations in the background). Just in case anyone likes geological history...like me!
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Last edited by Paul Workman; 07-24-2015 at 07:37 AM.
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