Reflection of Autumns Natural Beauty

I capture this a Pickle Creek in Hawn State park in Missouri.Pickle Creek, an Outstanding Capture at Hawn State Park in Missouri. State Resource... more

by Peggy Franz

Title

Reflection of Autumns Natural Beauty

Artist

Peggy Franz

Medium

Photograph - Photography/landscape/river/spring

Description

I capture this a Pickle Creek in Hawn State park in Missouri.Pickle Creek, an Outstanding Capture at Hawn State Park in Missouri. State Resource Water, winds its way for two miles through narrow and scenic sandstone valleys. This high-quality Ozark stream has a sustained flow and a sandy bottom owing to its carving through the ancient Lamotte sandstone formation. Sandstone bluffs and ledges border the stream in many places. The water is often tea-colored but has good clarity. These waters support at least 20 native fish species. The fish fauna includes fishes of the prairie faunal region (e.g., red shiner, sand shiner, Johnny darter) and the Ozark faunal region (e.g., bleeding shiner, Ozark minnow, rainbow darter) and thereby is deemed as a transitional fish community composed of species spanning two regions. Along Pickle Creek ancient Precambrian igneous rhyolite and granite rocks are exposed which underlie the Lamotte sandstone above. These rocks had a volcanic origin in contrast to the sandstone which formed along the edge of an ancient sea. Also exposed is a small area of gneiss, a 1.5 billion year old metamorphic rock rarely exposed in Missouri.

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November 11th, 2013