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The Alluvial Fan in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) is a fan-shaped area of sediment deposits that was created on July 15, 1982 when the Lawn Lake Dam burst: The dam's failure released more than 200 million gallons of water, flooding the park and the nearby town of Estes Park. The resulting wall of water swept away vegetation and debris, including huge boulders, and left a massive pile of them at the bottom of the valley. | Colorado Adventures

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Horseshoe Falls Elevation: 9,400ft Alluvial Fan Rocky Mountain National Park Estes Park, Colorado V7 | Rich Dunham | Facebook

230K views · 3.2K reactions | Picture this: 350 feet of soft, young alluvial sediment sitting atop ancient bedrock. Lake Bonneville keeps rising… until it just spills over the edge of that alluvial fan at 5,000 feet. Now ask yourself—how long between the first trickle… and a catastrophic blowout dumping 40 million cubic feet per second? You're talking about a geologic detonation—instantaneous floodgates from a lake the size of Utah. | The Randall Carlson | Facebook