Pegmatite intrusions seen from Dragon Point, Black Canyon of Gunnison NP, Colorado, USA.

Golden sunrise light illuminates pegmatite intrusions of the Painted Wall seen from Dragon Point, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, near Montrose, Colorado, USA. Pressurized molten rock was forced into 1.7-billion-year-old metamorphic rock, forming pink pegmatite stripes on Colorado's highest cliffs. With two million years to work, the Gunnison River and weathering have sculpted a vertical wilderness of rock, water, and sky.

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Contained in galleries: Colorado: Black Canyon of Gunnison National Park, 2015 Mar 3-Apr 8: favorites UT, CO hikes, USA: Colorado favorites, 2015 Mar 3-Apr 8: all: Utah, Colorado hikes, USA: Southwest favorites (Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada), Highlights 2015

Golden sunrise light illuminates pegmatite intrusions of the Painted Wall seen from Dragon Point, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, near Montrose, Colorado, USA. Pressurized molten rock was forced into 1.7-billion-year-old metamorphic rock, forming pink pegmatite stripes on Colorado's highest cliffs. With two million years to work, the Gunnison River and weathering have sculpted a vertical wilderness of rock, water, and sky.