Abstract Nature Patterns from Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Index to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park: 1. Glacier NP, Montana ; 2. Waterton Lakes NP, CANADA ; 3. abstract nature patterns of Waterton-Glacier ; 4. animals & insects of Waterton-Glacier

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Left: Colorful fractured rock pattern, on the hike to Hidden Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana. One of my favorite pattern images.

Below right: Smooth exfoliating rock pattern.

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Left: Seabed ripples are fossilized in this blue rock pattern above Logan Pass, in Montana, in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Below right: Cracked rock pattern above Logan Pass.

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park is a World Heritage Site containing the following two parks:

Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Image gallery of 120 Glacier National Park images from 2007.
Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, CANADA.

These parks not only have spectacular mountains, but also have fantastic and colorful rock patterns at every scale, from inches to miles. (For more abstract patterns from around the world, see My Fine Art Gallery: Abstracts.)

Left: My boots and poles stand atop an orange rock and yellow lichen pattern, on the trail from Two Medicine Lake Campground to Cobalt Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana.

Above: McDonald Creek, in Montana, in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.

Rock patterns above Logan Pass, in Montana, in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Left: Colorful rocks in Cobalt Creek, Montana, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Above: Baring Creek flows over sediment ripples that are fossilized into the red rock.

Rock patterns above Logan Pass, in Montana, in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Left: Orange and green leaf pattern in Montana, in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Left: Jagged orange and red rock pattern, Glacier National Park, Montana

Below right: Frosted fireweed in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Left: A glacier seen from Siyeh Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana

Below right: From near Siyeh Pass, you can see glaciers at the headwaters of Boulder Creek Canyon, Glacier National Park, Montana

Colorful rock hillsides near Siyeh Pass.

Left: Ptarmigan Falls, in Montana, in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.

Below: The trail at the north entrance to Ptarmigan Tunnel cuts through a red cliff layered with ancient sediments, in Glacier National Park, Montana

Left: Elizabeth Lake and Belly River Valley, seen from Ptarmigan Tunnel, Glacier National Park, Montana

Above right: White Veratrum (Veratrum Californicum) also misleadingly known as Corn Lily, or False Hellebore, or Veratrum tenuipetalum. It is NOT related to Corn, and William Weber does NOT classify it as a Lily (Liliaceae family). "Veratrum" is Latin for "true black", referring to the black rhizomes (roots). "Tenu" is Latin for "thin" or "slender" and "petalum" is Greek for "a leaf" or "spread out flat" and refers to the spreading leaves.

Left: Colorful boulders and layered sediments form the stream bed of Cataract Creek Valley, seen on the descent from Piegan Pass, in Montana, in Glacier National Park.

Above: A stream filled with colorful rocks on the hike to Hidden Lake.

Left: Orange yellow eroding rock pattern on the spectacular Carthew Pass traverse in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada.

Above: Wet rock pattern in Glacier National Park.

Left: Yellow lichen on magenta colored rock in Glacier National Park.

Below right: Fossilized seabed ripples in Glacier National Park.

Below: Broken, magenta-colored rock shards covered with white and yellow lichen, in Glacier National Park, Montana..

Above: Colorful stream bed in Red Rock Canyon, in the Clark Range, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada.

Left: Hikers crossing Carthew Pass, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada.

Below right: Red Rock Canyon, in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada.

Left: Fossilized seabed ripples in Glacier National Park, Montana.

Above: Colorful exfoliating rock pattern. Glacier National Park, Montana. (Photo by Carol Dempsey.)

Rock pattern. Glacier National Park, Montana.
Left: Sharp rock pattern in Glacier National Park.

For more abstract patterns from around the world, see My Fine Art Gallery: Abstracts.

Image gallery of 120 Glacier National Park images from 2007.

Abstract Nature Patterns from Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Index to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park: 1. Glacier NP, Montana ; 2. Waterton Lakes NP, CANADA ; 3. abstract nature patterns of Waterton-Glacier (top of page) ; 4. animals & insects of Waterton-Glacier

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