Posted on 01/03/2006 11:13:12 AM PST by cogitator
A bit foggy on ideas this week, I decided to see what the first picture was if I Googled for images on the word "chasm". Though this is not the first picture that was found, it is the first place that was found, and it's called "The Chasm" in Milford Sound, New Zealand.
Now here's a mini-challenge: where's your favorite chasm*? It has to actually be (officially) named "chasm" -- gorges, canyons, and gulches don't count. (I did a bit more Googling, and found a mind-blowing... well, have fun.)
*and no chasmas from Mars, either
Bonus Web site (I'm probably going to grab a shot from here next week):
** ppiinngg **
"The SKTF Cleanup at Miller's Chasm has been cancelled.
It was scheduled for december 8,2005 but was cancelled."
My caving days are over but I couldn't resist finding a Tennessee Chasm reference for Bumping the thread.
An hour or so ago, I passed through the deep cuts of I 26 that exhibit great swirls of pink and white and green with giant darkgreen eyes included. The cuts are several hundred feet deep and the swirls are very large. The various colors of the swirls are penetrated by long sinusoidal white veins varying fron 2" to several feet in amplitude. The cut face resembles a cake batter partially mixed.
If you ever cross Sam's gap into Tennessee from NC on I 26, pay attention to this treat of geologic spectacle.
There's a difference between geology and physiology (most of the time).
Here's a gorge of sorts from there:
The Flume:
I've been there, I think. Franconia Notch State Park?
Here's the website of my favorite chasm - Chasm, B.C. - just off Highway 97.
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/chasm.html
Here's an extract:
"A spectacular display of colour illustrates the park's rich geology in the Chasm Creek Valley and part of the Bonaparte River Valley. Successive lava flows form layers in varying tones of red, brown, yellow and purple, which have been revealed in the steep lava-layered canyon walls through erosion over the past 10 million years.
At the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago, water from the melting glaciers carried so much silt that it carved the 8 km long, 600-metre wide and 300-metre deep Chasm."
There is a photo gallery.
Happy New Year, one and all!
If I recall, yes. It's an eroded dike apparently. NH has some fabulous geology. I really want to get back there. Lovely place.
This is a giveaway, but Google "Elves Chasm".
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