Anticline RMOS
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Anticline RMOS
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
An anticline is a fold in the rock layers caused by mountain building forces deep in the Earth’s crust. They are typically A-shaped where the oldest rocks are in the center of the fold.
Mountains are built when tectonic plates of the Earth collide, a process called orogeny. Red Mountain Open Space in northern Colorado has experienced many orogenies in the past two billion years. The most recent, called the Laramide Orogeny, began about 70 million ago when a thick ocean plate collided with the North American plate. These mountain forming folds pushed sedimentary rock layers together like rumples in a rug.
Often, an A-shaped anticline is flanked by a nearby U-shaped fold called a syncline. Nearby Table Mountain in the Red Mountain Open Space is the sibling syncline to the asymmetrical anticline in the photograph.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the Fine Art America watermark.
Image made in Colorful Colorado and copyright 2020 Jon Burch Photography.
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June 19th, 2020
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