Hiking the Flume gorge 1 -'s by chriseysa

Manchester - United States, New Hampshire at Franconia Notch State Park. The Flume (discovered in 1808) is a natural granite gorge extending 800 feet at the base of Mount Liberty. Towering granite walls rise to a height of 90 feet. The granite rock which make up the walls of the Flume was formed many millions of years ago. At a later period dark colored lava in a molten condition was pushed up from below filling a great crack and smaller side cracks that had been formed in the granite. This lava solidified to form dikes. As ages passed the main dike was worn away leaving the Flume gorge. The original Flume thus formed has been further widened by frost and water actions.

Uploaded: Feb, 02 2010 | Taken: Oct, 14 2009| Viewed: 35 times  | 3 votes Camera: Panasonic | Model: DMC-TZ5 | Exposure 10/300s, ISO 400 | FLength: 6mm | SW: Ver.1.0