Palouse Falls, Washington
From the Wiki:
The canyon at the falls is 115 meters (377 feet) deep, exposing a large cross-section of the Columbia River Basalt Group. These falls and the canyon downstream comprise an important feature of the channeled scablands created by the great Missoula Floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and across the Columbia River Plateau during the Pleistocene epoch.
The ancestral Palouse river flowed through the currently dry Washtucna Coulee to the Columbia River. The Palouse Falls and surrounding canyons were created when the Missoula Floods overtopped the south valley wall of the ancestral Palouse River, diverting it to the current course to the Snake River by erosion of a new channel.
Down river from the falls...
Much of Washington, Oregon, and parts of Idaho are located on the Columbia River Basalt Group — the largest flood basalt group in this country. I find basalt formations so very beautiful and interesting.
Twisting and turning basalt columns
It was 95 degrees at the falls yesterday, but some of the green is still holding on. Makes for some nice contrast. The heat kept the rattlesnakes in their hidey holes, thank goodness.
All photos by Zooey
7 Comments
July 11, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Awesome photos.
Raven
http://cherokeebydesign.wordpress.com/
July 11, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Thank you, Raven.
Your photography puts mine to shame.
July 11, 2009 at 2:45 pm
If you look closely I think you can see Bear Grylls pretending to survive on his own down there.
That’s some great country-side.
I’ve got the gear to take advantage of a place like that, but not so much the physical conditioning. .
July 11, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Are you minoring in geology? Sweet looking stuff but still it needs some waves washing upon it…
July 11, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Like these waves, db?
July 11, 2009 at 3:47 pm
beautiful work raven.
signs are fun too.
Back when i was still shooting I made a habit of ‘collecting’ vanity license plates–like the tag ‘POORMAN” on a pristine Cadillac convertible, EATZ GAS on a big Mercedes and my favorite was a beat-up old Beetle with a broken engine cover lock that was secured by a massive chain and padlock. The NY license plate read INSECURE.
July 11, 2009 at 4:53 pm
yeah, that’s a little more my style…
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