Bands of Rock

Photographer: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
From: Torres del Paine Part 1: "The Camelid Tragedy", Chilean Patagonia
Nikon Corporation » Nikon D80

Bands of Rock

The Torres and Cuernos del Paine are intrusive rocks, massive bubbles of granite from within the earth. This much older banded rock is what it intruded through, and some even caps the Torres black at the top- too high to be scraped off by the glaciers of the last Ice Age.