Continued Adventure - [PRIZES TO WIN INSIDE] - August Trip Pr 6

in #photography4 years ago

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After our stop to gather the tasty Mountain Sorrel we continued on our journey to catch some Arctic Char a few more miles up the coast. Soon after leaving that section of land we came across these pink cliffs oozing a black substance. I kinda thought it may be crude oil seeping though the heavily fractured stones in Nunavut, but I was unsure as that seemed just too convenient an explanation. But I'll be damned. It actually is what's known as a Petroleum Seep

A petroleum seep occurs as a result of the seal above the reservoir being breached, causing tertiary migration of hydrocarbons towards the surface under the influence of the associated buoyancy force. The seal is breached due to the effects of overpressure adding to the buoyancy force, overcoming the capillary resistance that initially kept the hydrocarbons sealed.

Nunavut's climate, in a way, is basically designed to fracture rocks and find these seeps. The snow of winter melts into the cracks during spring and mixes with permafrost and general freezing air temperatures, freezing in the cracks within rocks. And as water is want to do, it expands and fractures said rocks. Year by painstakingly slow year. As patient as a man with a life sentence in the gravel pits. The water and ice then can loosen and fall down a bit. Rinse and repeat this THOUSANDS of times and it's not hard to imagine the water eventually finds these trapped pockets of Crude Oil or Bitumen and displaces them with buoyancy, and forcing the oil to the surface!

After we saw one section of petroleum seep we started to see a LOT more. Kind of like when you buy a car and then all of a sudden every 2nd car on the road is that same model! 😅 But the petroleum seeps didn't make for good shots. The natural beauty of Nunavut must stand on its own.

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This shot is for sale on Lensy.io

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After a few more miles we ended up at the tip of a fjord where we would stay for several hours in order to fish. I really hope to go back one day so that I can get even more photos of stuff I didn't think to shoot until it was too late. I started out here by walking around taking photos of the valley and different plants and lichens in the area, which we will explore together in the next part of our #AugustTrip!

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