A warm layered landscape is exposed like a cup of steaming hot chocolate with soft melty marshmallows floating on top.
Delicious.
Tag: geology
Layers
Layers of color in a layered land. Northern Colorado near the Wyoming Border.
Passing time
I have always found it just a little more difficult to get excited about geology than the life sciences. Maybe it is how we have come to define life or maybe the story the earth has to tell is just a bit slower and more quiet than others being told these days. However, as we skied our way past stories like thee it was hard not to look and listen with full attention.
A Canyon carved by a mighty river replete with pinnacles and basaltic columns.
Basaltic columns sandwiched between layers of rock, earth and snow.
What looked like a mud encrusted cliff had a story hidden inside…
and yes life does test things out again and again.
Bentonite Hills
In a landscape where you feel like you are moving along with time.
Mud becomes rock and clouds pass by.
Bentonite Hills near Grand Junction, CO.
Along the wind
Fall colors in rock and foliage along the Wind River in Wyoming.
Only time will tell.
Time speaks slowly but in a language all can understand that beneath the skin of a landscape now covered with humans lies one of ancient seas and dunes.
On the banks of the green
On the banks of the Green River looking back at time.
The fresh green of spring heralds another year has passed while the rocks have a greater story to tell.
