Friday, October 12, 2018

What Is This? (Thermals, Chunks, Torrents, and Glaciers, etc.)

What is this:

A matrix of lava thermals hardens and cures its core. A chunk of mantel, separating from its crust, tilts it skyward. Torrents erode its exterior. Glaciers sculpt its face. Cataclysmic buckling rounds its edges, and finally, a millennial lake, held by a terminal moraine, sifts out the glacial silt to fill its depths.

(Hint: It's not Rush Limbaugh's forehead. However, it is similar and almost as majestic.)

Loren M. Lambert © January 28, 2010

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