Friday Field Foto #87: Cobble beach on Patagonian lake
June 19, 2009
This week’s Friday Field Foto is from a cobble beach along the shores of Lago Nordenskjold in Parque Nacional Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia. I was in this area earlier this year to run a field conference and do some field work and spent a few days to do a little hiking in the national park.
Lago Nordenskjold cobble beach, Chile (© 2009 clastic detritus)
By the way, the beach is at the foot of this:
Los Cuernos del Paine, Chile, in the early morning light (© 2009 clastic detritus)
Ah hah! That’s where the comparable proportions of light and dark cobbles come from.
Happy Friday!
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Clastic Detritus 
Those mountains are beautiful and surreal. Stunning!
Wow! I thought the beach photo was cool, but those mountains are amazing!
Neat pebble composition, and of course the Cuernos are stunning!
It’s a little example, but again, the way you show things , Brian, points out to the talent that you have in explaining things so that everybody understand its. You remind me of Descartes: it’s better to walk slowly and steady on a sure path than quickly and unsafely on an unclear one. The cobble beach example is something all geoscientists know about from books, yet I wonder how many really “saw” it so clearly in nature. The “ah, hah!” way, it’s how real knowledge builds up in one’s mind.
Alessandro … thanks much for the kind words!
Beautiful pictures.
love and light
solange