Paint Pot Quarry by potamus

Bryce • (none) • posted on Jan 28, 2003

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Description

Layers of alluvial soil show the awesome power required to carve these mineral works. The ponds form after each progressive reaming of the pits, as fresh, unsilted rock is exposed one carving at a time. Valuable dissolved salts are then siphoned off much like tapping a maple tree.