Pryor Reflections
Montana
First light of morning strikes the highest rocky reaches of the Pryor Mountins. The Pryor Mountains are to the west and north of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The product of arched uplifts, they are good examples of fault block mountains. They have steep east facing fronts that have eroded back from the plane of the fault zone and gentle slopes off to the west controlled by the resistance to erosion of the Madison Limestone. Photo © copyright by Robert Faucher.