View of Hot Springs, Arkansas, from the top of the observation tower on North Mountain looking towards West Mountain.
Steeply dipping beds of the Stanley Shale and Hot Springs sandstone exposed behind a parking lot in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Photo of me along the Sunset trail on West Mountain at Hot Springs National Park amidst some outcrops of novaculite, a type of cryptocrystalline quartz. It is erosion resistant and holds up the ridge line here
Looking north along the Sunset trail on West Mountain at Hot Springs National Park amidst some outcrops of novaculite, a type of cryptocrystalline quartz. It is erosion resistant and holds up the ridge line here
#Geomorphology Week is ending, and I was lucky enough to get down to #HotSprings #NationalPark where 4,000 yr heated #groundwater rises to Earth’s surface via the Hot Springs #Fault, part of the Ouachita Orogeny. Ridges here are held up by cryptocrystalline quartz of the Arkansas Novaculite #Geology