The Slate River, Crested Butte – Colorado – One of the many rivers in the Gunnison Basin. [4608X3072] by Dan Lockhart
Picture found by the Ditpub “Beautiful World” searcher.
Original was/is available from http://i.imgur.com/QRb8VdY.jpg
Some learning, selected for this occasion 🙂
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.
A butte /bjuːt/ is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller than mesas, plateaus, and table landforms.
Colorado (/kɒləˈrædoʊ/, or /kɒləˈrɑːdoʊ/) (Spanish for “ruddy”) is a U.S. state encompassing most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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