In a visit to the Alluvial Fan area of Rocky Mountain National Park in 2017, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced a plan to distribute more than $50 million to national parks for ...

Specifically, the scientists aimed to determine alluvial fan sedimentation links to monsoon rainfall patterns affected by geological timescales of ~23,000 years (precession, the "wobble" of Earth ...

An easy half-mile trail leads across the boulder field and through the upper part of the Alluvial Fan to a view of Horseshoe Falls. Elevation gain is only 56 or 63 feet, depending on where you begin.

Alluvial Fan was created at 5:30 a.m. on July 15th, 1982. Decades before and high above Horseshoe Park, a dam was built at Lawn Lake.

Intersection point deposits occur at the point where the bed of a trench in an alluvial fan merges with the surface of the fan. Such deposition is generally highly periodic, and consequently ...

The Alluvial Fan area will be on your right, about a half mile up that road. NOTE: Until Oct. 13, reservations are required to enter the park from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m.