Tag: Waterfalls

  • Unconformity at Cedar Falls

    Unconformity at Cedar Falls

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    When you’re admiring Cedar Falls at Petit Jean State Park, there’s a great big unconformity right in front of you!Can you see it?

  • Cedar Creek at Red Bluff Drive

    Cedar Creek at Red Bluff Drive

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    Next to Cedar Creek Bridge on Red Bluff Drive at Petit Jean State Park.

  • Triple Falls

    Triple Falls

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    This is actually called “Twin Falls”, because the ones in the center and on the left are fed by springs up on the bluff that run year-round – so you can always see those two. The third is a creek that also runs along the bluff and is often dry, but in times of heavy…

  • Watch That Fall

    Watch That Fall

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    A hiker stops to admire the 100-foot (30-meter) Cedar Falls, the centerpiece of Petit Jean State Park.

  • Bard Springs Dam

    Bard Springs Dam

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    Bard Springs is a very secluded spot deep in the Ouachita National Forest.

  • Ancient Seabed – Recent Falls

    Ancient Seabed – Recent Falls

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    Much of Arkansas’s strata is comprised of layers of sandstone that was once ancient seabeds – now hardened into stone and tossed at crazy angles due to mountain-building processes (orogeny). The weathered formations in the foreground of this photo show some of that – while the dam in the background is of much more recent…