Images Dated 2000 January

Early Morning Clouds, Grand Teton Mountains, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA

Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park in northwestern Wyoming. The park includes the major peaks of the Teton Range, as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. The park has also numerous lakes, including Jackson Lake as well as streams and the upper main stem of the Snake River

© Jaynes Gallery/Danita Delimont

Road and rock formation in Jemez Valley, New Mexico, USA

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of mineral or organic particles on the floor of oceans or other bodies of water at the Earth's surface. Sedimentation is the collective name for processes that cause these particles to settle in place. The particles that form a sedimentary rock are called sediment, and may be composed of geological detritus (minerals) or biological detritus (organic matter). Before being deposited, the geological detritus was formed by weathering and erosion from the source area, and then transported to the place of deposition by water, wind, ice, mass movement or glaciers, which are called agents of denudation. Biological detritus was formed by bodies and parts (mainly shells) of dead aquatic organisms, as well as their fecal mass, suspended in water and slowly piling up on the floor of water bodies (marine snow). Sedimentation may also occur as dissolved minerals precipitate from water solution

© William D. Jaynes (BJY) / Danita Delimont

Towering Art Deco building, NYC

500 Fifth Avenue (at right) at W. 42nd Street, Midtown East, Manhattan, NYC, USA, 60-floor, 709-foot (216 m) office tower built in 1929-31 and designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon in Art Deco style, New York Public Library (at left), Carrere & Hastings, architects, 1897-1911

© Barry M. Winiker

563401085, Architecture, Art Deco, City Life, Landmark, Majestic