Tuff Canyon near the Castelon area of Big Bend National Park
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- Unknown
- Location
- Big Bend National Park, Texas
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. All Rights Reserved
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This photograph shows the Tuff Canyon Cliff near the Castalon area. Tuff is “a rock composed of consolidated or cemented volcanic ash.” These gray cliffs show a great deal of erosion from Blue Creek as it cut through the rock. Strewn at the base of the cliffs are brick red rocks.
