BRYCE CANYON
A Visual Interpretation
Nicky Leach
48 pages. 8.5”x7.375”
ISBN  0-939365-42-1
$4.95

Our Bryce Canyon Visual Interpretation^© Book features our trademark high quality photography, a short essay, maps, and travel information.

Rock and water. A strange alchemy. One apparently static; the other rarely still. In the dry, overheated southwestern landscape—barely moistened by its often ephemeral rivers, creeks, and rainfall—it seems impossible that water could be anything but a bit player in Nature’s great show, while rock takes center stage.

Yet nothing could be farther from the truth. The Southwest may be arid, but its elevated plateaus, peaked mountains, great basins, and valleys ensure that the weather has a dramatic impact on these surroundings. Winter storms bring blankets of snow that decorate red rocks and make much of the high country impassable; freeze-thaw cycles of ice and snow wedge open joints in seemingly smooth-faced rocks and hasten erosion; and spring snowmelt and summer rainfall come in dramatic bursts, transforming washes, waterfalls, and rivers into powerful forces.

The presence of water does more than allow plants and animals to retain a precarious foothold; it has actually given birth to and shaped the land—making water both medium and sculptor for the bare, angular sedimentary rocks that are the leitmotif of Canyon Country. At Bryce Canyon National Park, this dual role of water is particularly apparent. Here, forged in a high plateau of geologically recent uplifted lake deposits, rain, streams, ice, snow, and wind have chiseled a series of unusual, ornately carved amphitheaters in the eastern face of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.

—From “Bryce Canyon ” by Nicky Leach

BRYCE CANYON
A Visual Interpretation
Nicky Leach
48 pages. 8.5”x7.375”
ISBN  0-939365-42-1
$4.95

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