RMOS Anticline
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
RMOS Anticline
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
Cross bedded planes along the current top of an anticline in Red Mountain Open Space in northern Colorado. In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core, whereas a syncline is the inverse of a anticline.
In the first quarter of the 1800s, French-Canadian trappers traveled through Red Mountain Open Space, heading south to Bent’s Old Fort. They traded items such as blue beads with small bands of Arapaho Indians who over-wintered in the sheltered valley along the “bahah haiahah,” or Red Rock Road. Located along the border of Wyoming and Colorado, Red Mountain Open Space is an area of deep crimson and tan rocks, rolling grasslands and sandy washes. People have lived in the area for more than 12,000 years, taking advantage of the abundant natural resources found there.
Red Mountain Open Space, encompassing about 15,000 acres, is located about 25 miles north of Fort Collins and is part of the Laramie Foothills Mountains to Plains Project which protects more than 55,000 total acres of ecologically and culturally diverse landscape. The biodiversity is extremely high, and this area, where the foothills and plains meet, features some plant communities that are globally rare.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition.
Image copyright 2020 Jon Burch Photography
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June 17th, 2020
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