Needle Rock Clearing Sky
by Eric Rundle
Title
Needle Rock Clearing Sky
Artist
Eric Rundle
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Photograph - Photographs
Description
With the clearing sky reveling the snow line just above the Smith Fork Valley Needle Rock stands with a glow in the sunlight.
Needle Rock is an intrusive of rhyodacite volcanic plug located at the west border of the Gunnison National Forest, in the Needle Rock Natural Area near Crawford in the U.S. state of Colorado. It stands 800 feet (240 m) tall above the floor of the Smith Fork of the Gunnison River valley. It originated as the throat of a large volcano about 28 million years ago in the Miocene geological epoch, when molten rock intruded between existing sedimentary rocks. The plug may represent the eroded conduit of a laccolith.
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February 19th, 2013
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