Friday, April 24, 2009

Geology camp: Pike's Peak 1984

All week long
wandering the Rockies

trying to imagine 
an erosional surface.


Zphx (to Bud Wobus)

(Colorado's subalpine erosion surface ,"The Big Flat", is one of the most remarkable and extensive landscape features in the Colorado Front Range, occurring at an average elevation of 9,000 feet, almost TWO MILES above sea level! It provides an often treeless base above which the snowy mountains on the horizon rise as high as 14,000 feet.)

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