Artist's Paint Palette Abstract is a photograph by Heidi Smith which was uploaded on April 8th, 2013.
Artist's Paint Palette Abstract
An abstract of Artist's Paint Palette in Death Valley National Park, California.... more
by Heidi Smith
Title
Artist's Paint Palette Abstract
Artist
Heidi Smith
Medium
Photograph
Description
An abstract of Artist's Paint Palette in Death Valley National Park, California.
Artist's Drive rises up to the top of an alluvial fan fed by a deep canyon cut into the Black Mountains. Artist's Palette is on the face of the Black Mountains and is noted for having various colors of rock. These colors are caused by the oxidation of different metals (red, pink and yellow is from iron salts, green is from decomposing tuff-derived mica, and manganese produces the purple).
Called the Artist Drive Formation, the rock unit provides evidence for one of the Death Valley area's most violently explosive volcanic periods. The Miocene-aged formation is made up of cemented gravel, playa deposits, and much volcanic debris, perhaps 5,000 feet (1500 m) thick. Chemical weathering and hydrothermal alteration are also responsible for the variety of colors displayed in the Artist Drive Formation and nearby exposures of the Furnace Creek Formation
Source - Wikipedia
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April 8th, 2013
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Comments (16)
Pamela Patch
Wonderful work Heidi, well done! Congratulations on your group features, well earned! f/v
Nadine and Bob Johnston
Congratulations, on your Feature AND Publication in -The Internet Weekly... Artist News - http://paper.li/f-1343723559# --- If you go to the paper, click SHARE, you can Tweet, Facebook, or even Email a copy to Friends, Relatives and others, so they can see the Publication in the ARTIST NEWS. It's one of our FAVORITES today... We do not always have the time to Comment, but just had to leave one on this beautiful piece of work.
Merridy Jeffery
Yes, it looks abstract, but it's all so real. Beautiful. Thanks for posting to the ROCKS Group.
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