Sleeping Dog in the Canyon
by Ivete Basso Photography
Title
Sleeping Dog in the Canyon
Artist
Ivete Basso Photography
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Sleeping Dog in the Canyon is from Devils Punchbowl County Park, California. I found this formation during my hiking. Beautiful rock dog.
The primary attractions of the park are its geological formations. The Punchbowl is a deep canyon categorized as a plunging syncline: a v-shaped folding of the earth's strata caused by compression. The mountain peaks above the park are 8,000 feet in elevation, compared to the park's Nature Center at 4,740 feet above sea level. The Punchbowl Canyon is 300 feet deep at the vista point. The peculiar uptilted rock formations found in the area are layers of sedimentary rocks formed long ago by water depositing loose material in horizontal layers. Later they were squeezed into their present, steeply tilted form by ongoing uplift action along the Punchbowl and Pinyon Faults and by pressures along the San Andreas Fault. The Punchbowl Fault is to the south of the rock formation, while the Pinyon and San Andreas Faults are to the north.
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May 6th, 2013
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Comments (7)
Kym Backland
Ivete, This is cool, I didn't know about this rock! Cool capture! I hope you are well... I voted and fav'd this! FV
Ivete Basso Photography replied:
Thanks Kym. Appreciate your nice comment and you V/F. Thanks for visit my Gallery! Kym, this is a nice formation and very clear!
Christiane Schulze
Incredible formantion .......interesting image Ivete - Chris (F/V)
Ivete Basso Photography replied:
Thanks Christiane. Appreciate your nice comment and you V/F. Thanks for visit my Gallery! All the time I see some thing interesting in the rock formation....