After Travelling North And Passing Through The ZMM Narrator’s “Rocky Gorges”, We Look Back South, And See That The John Day River Has Carved This Very Narrow Deep Cut In Solid Volcanic Lava.
….This Cut Is Called “The Picture Gorge”, And The Black Lava Is Called “The Picture Gorge Basalts”.

[ “The desert road winds through rocky gorges “ ] “ and hills. This is the driest country yet.
.... I want to talk now about truth traps and muscle traps and then stop this Chautauqua for today.
.... Truth traps are concerned with data that are apprehended and are within the boxcars of the train. For the most part these data are properly handled by conventional dualistic logic and the scientific method talked about earlier, back just after Miles City. But there’s one trap that isn’t—the truth trap of yes-no logic.
.... Yes and no . . . this or that . . . one or zero. On the basis of this elementary two-term discrimination, all human knowledge is built up. The demonstration of this is the computer memory which stores all its knowledge in the form of binary information. It contains ones and zeros, that’s all. “ (Cont.Next)

A Turnout Parking Area, Rt-19, 1/4 mile North of Where Rt-26 Turns West To Mitchell, OR. In /\ Above /\ Photo, the sign in the foreground explains the names and dates of the volcanic + lava formations here as => Age of Mammals Begins (~64 M y ago), Clarno? Formations (~45 M y ago), John Day Formations (~27 M y ago), Marshal Formations and layers seen in photo (15 M y ago), Rattlesnake Formations (6 M y ago). The Sign says: “the dark layers of this “Picture Gorge” were formed from hot floods of basalt lava flowing from nearby cracks in the earth.”
….”These flows joined with the massive Columbia River Basalt Group that covers much of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Powerful geological forces have since broken and tilted and weathered the land. The bottom layers of the gorge are the same layers that cap Sheep Rock Peak, behind you. …. “ [This is my next photo.]

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