Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations
Jocassee Gorges · By Stephanie Walters and Dirk Frankenberg
Granite cliffs at Whiteside Mountain
Figure 3. Granite cliffs help to concentrate and elevate warm, moist air. (Photograph by Dirk Frankenberg. More about the photograph)
Figure 3 shows the topography that concentrates and elevates air currents from the south as they reach the Blue Ridge escarpment. This is a photograph taken from Whiteside Mountain showing the granite cliffs that are its most striking feature as well as the high ridge that makes up the western edge of the gorges’ half-moon bowl.
