Kenai Fjords National Park Stunning Views

E very once in a while,            rattle and roll" takes on new      Mother Nature produces a        meanings. In 1964, for instance,   masterpiece that simply         the edge of the Pacific Plate      leaves you breathless. Kenai          buckled and the shoreline on the   Fjords National Park is one such      Pacific Ocean dropped over six     masterpiece.                          feet in less than five minutes.                                                                             Kenai Fjords                          As the park shifts, global                                               warming is also playing a part.    Located in Alaska, Kenai Fjords       With vast glaciers, the park is a  National Park is simply stunning.     white beauty. Now they are         A seemingly peaceful location,        melting and leaving previously     the park can be extremely active      unseen valleys and canyons that    geologically. We're talking           make the Grand Canyon look like a  glaciers, mountains and untamed       crack in the sidewalk. It is       wilds.                                truly amazing to see the extent                                          to which a glacier can carve a     Classified a national park in         valley out of sheer rock.          1980, Kenai Fjords has been a                                            geological catch for scientists       Kenai Fjords is also the home to   and people alike. The park is         the huge Harding Ice Field.        situated on the edge of two           Dating back to the ice age, the    tectonic plate intersections.         field covers over 300,000 acres.   Specifically, where the Pacific       Over 30 glaciers originate in the  Plate is slowly being pushed          field and spread out across the    under the North American Plate.       park. With hundreds of inches of   There is an obscene amount of         snow dropping on the field each    geological tension where two          year, the glaciers continue to     plates push on each other. When       grow notwithstanding global        one wins out, the phrase "shake,      warming issues. The field and      glaciers simply have to be seen       maintain a stable road system. As  to be believed.                       a result, one of the best ways to                                        see the park is by boat. While     As you might imagine, getting         you will not get into the heart    around Kenai Fjords National Park     of the park, you will be able to   is not particularly easy.             see much of the most dramatic      Changing geology, earthquakes,        terrain that is located on the     glacier flows and so on make it       coast.                             fairly difficult to create and         About the Author: Rick Chapo is with http://www.nomadjournals.com - makers of diary and writing journals. Visit http://www.nomadjournaltrips.com to read more about the great outdoors. Source: www.isnare.com