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Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
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Peninsular area, Lower Kananaskis Lake
Peninsular area, Lower Kananaskis Lake
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A drive through Kananaskis
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Little old Catholic church in the Badlands
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Badlands of Alberta
The Hoodoo Trail, near Drumheller
The Hoodoo Trail
The Hoodoo Trail, near Drumheller
Red Rock Canyon, Waterton
Those red, red rocks
Erosion in Dinosaur Provincial Park
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Erosion through the ages
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Badlands of the Dinosaurs
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Beynon Ecological Preserve
Cascade Mt., Banff
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As beautiful as it gets
40 million years old
Horsethief Canyon, Drumheller
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Fishing Cone, West Thumb Geyser Basin, Yellowstone
Pink slopes of the Canyon of the Yellowstone
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
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Cliff erosion, Horseshoe Canyon
On the rocks
Pyritohedron
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Amethyst
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Red Rock Coulee, US
This is another (forgotten to be posted) landscape photo from Red Rock Coulee, in SE Alberta, taken on 20 September 2013. Two friends, Sandy and Janet, and I, left Calgary on a Monday morning, 20 September 2013, and had to reach Elkwater in the Cypress Hills (not that far from the Saskatchewan border), several hours' drive away, where we were going to stay in a little rustic cabin for three nights.
Though our furthest destination was Elkwater, we did a lot of driving all over the SE part of the province. All new territory to me, so I was extremely lucky to get this chance. Both friends had been to this area before, but wanted to go back to see if they could add any new species of Lichen to those already on various lists for each area, and to simply explore this beautiful section on Alberta. Always exciting to see some new things, not to mention all new scenery for me : )
I was really concerned before we went, though, as I had been on antibiotics (which, normally, I never take) for the previous nine days and they were making me feel nauseous and generally sick, and I wasn't sure how I was going to manage the trip. Had to forget the last day of pills, as apart from the nausea, another side-effect was reddening of the skin, and my poor legs looked like they had suffered burns! They also affected my eyes, too, which was really troubling. So thankful I still managed! What I would have missed!
On the way to Elkwater, we stopped at Red Rock Coulee, which is 56 kms (35 mi) southwest of Medicine Hat. Wonderfully, we called in again on the way back to Calgary on 23 September, this time walking down the hillside and into one of the coulees. While my friends searched for Lichens, I wandered around, taking photos of the scenery and anything else I came across. While we were down there, the sky had filled with some rather nice clouds, which I appreciated, and the light was so much better. However, the extremely high winds were not pleasant at all, to say the least! In fact, strong winds were everywhere in many parts of SE Alberta. I was expecting a lot of my photos to be blurry, as I could barely keep my balance or hold my camera, but amazingly, most were OK. This is Rattlesnake territory, too, but fortunately we didn't come across any, thank goodness!
"The main feature of this natural landscape is the huge red boulders; some measuring 2.5 m across. They are scattered over a relatively small distance. Bedrock is close to the surface in this area, covered by only a thin layer of soil. Water erosion has carved the landscape over time and a badlands topography has formed in places. The bands of colour visible in the exposed bedrock are made of dark gray shales, greenish and gray sandstones, bentonitic clays and thin bands of ironstone.
The most striking features of this landscape are the round reddish boulders. These are sandstone concretions and at up to 2.5 m in diameter, they are among the largest in the world. The boulders were formed in prehistoric seas as layers of sand, calcite and iron oxide collected around a nucleus formed by shells, leaves or bones. The concretions grew larger as the circulating waters deposited more layers. The reddish colour comes from iron oxide." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rock_Coulee
Though our furthest destination was Elkwater, we did a lot of driving all over the SE part of the province. All new territory to me, so I was extremely lucky to get this chance. Both friends had been to this area before, but wanted to go back to see if they could add any new species of Lichen to those already on various lists for each area, and to simply explore this beautiful section on Alberta. Always exciting to see some new things, not to mention all new scenery for me : )
I was really concerned before we went, though, as I had been on antibiotics (which, normally, I never take) for the previous nine days and they were making me feel nauseous and generally sick, and I wasn't sure how I was going to manage the trip. Had to forget the last day of pills, as apart from the nausea, another side-effect was reddening of the skin, and my poor legs looked like they had suffered burns! They also affected my eyes, too, which was really troubling. So thankful I still managed! What I would have missed!
On the way to Elkwater, we stopped at Red Rock Coulee, which is 56 kms (35 mi) southwest of Medicine Hat. Wonderfully, we called in again on the way back to Calgary on 23 September, this time walking down the hillside and into one of the coulees. While my friends searched for Lichens, I wandered around, taking photos of the scenery and anything else I came across. While we were down there, the sky had filled with some rather nice clouds, which I appreciated, and the light was so much better. However, the extremely high winds were not pleasant at all, to say the least! In fact, strong winds were everywhere in many parts of SE Alberta. I was expecting a lot of my photos to be blurry, as I could barely keep my balance or hold my camera, but amazingly, most were OK. This is Rattlesnake territory, too, but fortunately we didn't come across any, thank goodness!
"The main feature of this natural landscape is the huge red boulders; some measuring 2.5 m across. They are scattered over a relatively small distance. Bedrock is close to the surface in this area, covered by only a thin layer of soil. Water erosion has carved the landscape over time and a badlands topography has formed in places. The bands of colour visible in the exposed bedrock are made of dark gray shales, greenish and gray sandstones, bentonitic clays and thin bands of ironstone.
The most striking features of this landscape are the round reddish boulders. These are sandstone concretions and at up to 2.5 m in diameter, they are among the largest in the world. The boulders were formed in prehistoric seas as layers of sand, calcite and iron oxide collected around a nucleus formed by shells, leaves or bones. The concretions grew larger as the circulating waters deposited more layers. The reddish colour comes from iron oxide." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rock_Coulee
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