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Blazing sunset leaves in shadow the famous gap in Kiger Gorge, atop Oregon's Steens Mountain. Steen's Mountain Wilderness is “the largest fault-block mountain in the northern Great Basin.” The aerial view shows a forty mile long escarpment in southeastern Oregon has a notch cut out of the top and drops abruptly to the dry Alvord Desert, 5,500 feet below.
Bulldozing down to basalt, Ice Age glaciers carved our huge gorges out of the Great Basin's largest fault block mountain. Beyond, Steens's east face plummets a vertical mile.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 6000x4110 / 31.2MB
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aerial photography, alvord desert, color image, desert, frenchglen, geography, grassland, grasslands, horizons, image setting, image type, landscapes, national recreation areas (oregon), natural forces and phenomena, no people, north america, number of people, oregon, outdoors, pacific coast states, photography, precipitation, rain, roads, steens mountain recreation lands, twilight, twilight views, united states, weather
- Contained in galleries
- The Big Open_Public Lands_National Geographic magazine and book 8/2001
