GeologyThe Freshet Mountains are not jagged peaks, but rounded and gentle. They are made up primarily of sandstone, metasandstone, and shale, though there are a few veins of granite, gneiss and quartz which round out the range’s composition. Both sandstone and metasandstone often create dramatic formations in the landscape, and in places, a distinctive pillar of quartz and sandstone known as a keprias formation may be found jutting from the surrounding rock. Small caves speckle the slopes, providing shelter for the mountain cats that live among the rocks.
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The slopes, though gentler than those of a higher range, are covered with loose shale and scree, which are carried into the numerous freshets downstream, eventually ending up in the Simbris River where they erode into small rocks, pebbles, and sand. Narrow waterfalls also carry stone downhill to the river.
Though a sub-range of the greater Esch Mountains, the Freshet Mountains bear little similarity, as the Esch Mountains are much taller and more jagged. |
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