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Shrubbery Mounds
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These mounds, with shrubs on top of them, stand up to four feet tall, and are up to ten feet in diameter. They are located in a small coulee (draw, valley) between a banded bentonite hill on the east and a clay/shale hill on the west. Not having delved into it too far, my guess is that the mounds were formed either of two ways. One, the shrubs have been in place for many hundreds of years and the soil around them has blown away. The roots of the shrubs have held the soil in place around the shrub. Two, the shrubs have trapped blowing soil, again, over hundreds of years. The shrubs act like a snow fence to slow down the wind, laden with soil, and some of the suspended soil drops out over the plant, thus building up a mound in which the shrub continues to grow ever higher. I tend to favor option two because I know the wind blows ferociously in this area. In either case, the shrub roots in these mounds are very deep and reach at least to the general plain of the soil surface.
Copyright: Ken Stahley
Type: Spherical
Resolution: 16000x8000
Taken: 08/10/2024
Uploaded: 07/11/2024
Published: 07/11/2024
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Tags: stahley; wyoming; canyon; coulee; valley; draw; mound; shrub; wind; soil; erosion; root; bentonite; clay; shale; hill
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