Water Falls
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Water Falls
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital Textures
Description
Herald Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Herald Park is located on the north shore of the Salmon Arm of Shuswap Lake, in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Wikipediall - written guide has written: 'The trail leading to Margaret Falls passes through a rock chasm that feels like an enchanted forest. The unique and sensitive ecosystem of flowers, trees and shrubs are part of the park's natural heritage. The water from Reinecker Creek cascades down a sheer rock face creating a natural shower. If you look carefully you may be able to see the hidden cave in the rock directly behind the falls.Getting to Margaret Falls is an experience in itself, whether you are driving from the Trans-Canada along the Sunnybrae-Canoe Point Road or arriving by boat at Herald Provincial Park, you will see amazing views of impressive Bastion Mountain and of course the ever-present Shuswap Lake.Waterfalls are commonly formed when a river is young. At these times the channel is often narrow and deep. When the river courses over resistant bedrock, erosion happens slowly, while downstream the erosion occurs more rapidly. As the watercourse increases its velocity at the edge of the waterfall, it plucks material from the riverbed. Whirlpools created in the turbulence as well as sand and stones carried by the watercourse increase the erosion capacity.[1] This causes the waterfall to carve deeper into the bed and to recede upstream. Often over time, the waterfall will recede back to form a canyon or gorge downstream as it recedes upstream, and it will carve deeper into the ridge above it, The rate of retreat for a waterfall can be as high as one and half meters per year.
Often, the rock stratum just below the more resistant shelf will be of a softer type, meaning that undercutting due to splashback will occur here to form a shallow cave-like formation known as a rock shelter under and behind the waterfall. Eventually, the outcropping, more resistant cap rock will collapse under pressure to add blocks of rock to the base of the waterfall. These blocks of rock are then broken down into smaller boulders by attrition as they collide with each other, and they also erode the base of the waterfall by abrasion, creating a deep plunge pool or gorge.Streams become wider and shallower just above waterfalls due to flowing over the rock shelf, and there is usually a deep area just below the waterfall because of the kinetic energy of the water hitting the bottom. Waterfalls normally form in a rocky area due to erosion. After a long period of being fully formed, the water falling off the ledge will retreat, causing a horizontal pit parallel to the waterfall wall. Eventually, as the pit grows deeper, the waterfall collapses to be replaced by a steeply sloping stretch of river bed. In addition to gradual processes such as erosion, earth movement caused by earthquakes or landslides or volcanoes can cause a differential in land heights which interfere with the natural course of a water flow, and result in waterfalls.'"
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Comments (27)
Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Photographic Camera Art" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020-2021 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Kathy Bassett
Wonderful to have Water Falls placed on the home page of our Weekly FUN for all Mediums group, Chrisann!
Kathy Bassett
Thank you Robert for a place on your feature home page with Water Falls in your Nature Photography group!
Kathy Bassett
Hello Mehveen! Thank you very much for you feature of Water Falls in your lovely Women Photographers group!
Rosa Cobos
Incredible silky beauty....not magic can equal this experience...who needs it? I love it.
Kathy Bassett
Hi Dora! Thank you for a place on your feature page with Water Falls! Love your Visions Of Spring! :)