To: Theoria; SunkenCiv
I've just returned from a 2 1/2 week trip by car to CA. Part of our trip took us across Wyoming (Highway 80). There we saw the most interesting rock formations rising out of the plain.
This picture is especially dramatic, but formations like this were everywhere. The sides of the "towers" were obviously sedimentary, but the rock on top was solid and probably was formed by a volcano. What erodeded the sides? Glacier? Flood?
21 posted on
09/09/2012 7:54:09 AM PDT by
afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
22 posted on
09/09/2012 8:01:49 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
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To: afraidfortherepublic
This picture is especially dramatic, but formations like this were everywhere. The sides of the "towers" were obviously sedimentary, but the rock on top was solid and probably was formed by a volcano. What erodeded the sides? Glacier? Flood? A very long processes, not formed from a single glacier or a single flood. And the formation it’s self is not sedimentary rock but a volcanic formation and much harder than the surrounding rock.
http://www.nps.gov/deto/naturescience/geologicformations.htm
To: afraidfortherepublic
What erodeded the sides? Glacier? Flood? Legend has it as being bear claws.
29 posted on
09/10/2012 4:27:03 PM PDT by
ROCKLOBSTER
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