Dying Tree In West Alluvial Fan Sweatshirt

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In the Rocky Mountain National Park, one trail we came across is the West Alluvial Fan Trailhead. This area has survived Massive flooding, lighting strikes and fires in the past. This particular tree off the trail path is slowly dying from all the natural disaster that has happened in this alluvial plain.

An alluvial plain is a largely flat landform created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms. A floodplain is part of the process, being the smaller area over which the rivers flood at a particular period of time, whereas the alluvial plain is the larger area representing the region over which the floodplains have shifted over geological time.

Alluvial fans typically form where flow emerges from a confined channel and is free to spread out and infiltrate the surface. This reduces the carrying capacity of the flow and results in deposition of sediments. The fl...

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