MIND. BLOWN...! I think I'm beginning to understand why you love the mountains the way you do. I think that if you and I were to spend time together anywhere there is an abundance of nature, that I would become as attached as you are to mountain life. Your knowledge of all the natural sciences could be a constant source of fascination and wonder that would have me thirsting for more.
Without a doubt, we have got to find time to spend in the areas that offer a chance to explore and learn. I am regrettably only semi-ambulatory but can be satisfied watching and listening to what you have to tell as you give voice to nature. You are a treasure!
A couple fun things to ponder: further west most of the Proterozoic rocks are covered by thick volumes of Palaeozoic rocks from (540-240 million years ago). Here they are missing and you have a gap of 1.5 billion years between the X and C units. A very long disconformity. One thought is the paleozoic and a lots else was there but got eroded away. Second these are the traces of Pangea which existed from chinle to entrada times. the chinle itself is remnant of vast, transpangean river systems, buried by the later wingate dune systems. The morrison represents the flooding of North America during the Jurassic at creation the Atlantic and destruction of pangea. The whole sequence records the construction, existence and destruction of a supercontinent.
Growing up near Los Angeles and Seattle, I'd never heard of a hogback (or a flatiron). When we moved to Morrison, I assumed those were names given by the locals. Turns out they're very specific kinds of formations, which makes me wonder how many times I've seen either (or both) and not realized it.
MIND. BLOWN...! I think I'm beginning to understand why you love the mountains the way you do. I think that if you and I were to spend time together anywhere there is an abundance of nature, that I would become as attached as you are to mountain life. Your knowledge of all the natural sciences could be a constant source of fascination and wonder that would have me thirsting for more.
Without a doubt, we have got to find time to spend in the areas that offer a chance to explore and learn. I am regrettably only semi-ambulatory but can be satisfied watching and listening to what you have to tell as you give voice to nature. You are a treasure!
Are you saying that you'd have gone up that cliffside trail with me? HAW HAW HAW
A couple fun things to ponder: further west most of the Proterozoic rocks are covered by thick volumes of Palaeozoic rocks from (540-240 million years ago). Here they are missing and you have a gap of 1.5 billion years between the X and C units. A very long disconformity. One thought is the paleozoic and a lots else was there but got eroded away. Second these are the traces of Pangea which existed from chinle to entrada times. the chinle itself is remnant of vast, transpangean river systems, buried by the later wingate dune systems. The morrison represents the flooding of North America during the Jurassic at creation the Atlantic and destruction of pangea. The whole sequence records the construction, existence and destruction of a supercontinent.
Growing up near Los Angeles and Seattle, I'd never heard of a hogback (or a flatiron). When we moved to Morrison, I assumed those were names given by the locals. Turns out they're very specific kinds of formations, which makes me wonder how many times I've seen either (or both) and not realized it.