adventurous-watermelon: Golden hour on the Deschutes River; one of the most captivating places in Or
adventurous-watermelon: Golden hour on the Deschutes River; one of the most captivating places in Oregon. The Columbia River Basalts, one of the worlds largest series of lava flows, create cliffs and steep slopes. Above the 300 meter-deep canyon are the high plains of Central Oregon, mantled with wind blown dust from the great glaciers that once blanketed the Canadian Rockies. The slope in the first and second pictures that look like terraces is a rail grade built by the Deschutes Railroad, a Union Pacific subsidiary, in 1908. The lower slopes are covered in parts by sediments from the Missoula Floods 17-13,000 years ago and are seen as white sediments and glacial erratics, which backed up the Deschutes River as far as the White River from the Columbia Gorge. More here: https://youtu.be/slJqK0ODH9s -- source link