Maroon Bells, Colorado
“The Deadly Bells”
composed of metamorphic sedimentary mudstone that has hardened into rock over millions of years
1965, eight people died in five separate accidents
mudstone is weak and fractures readily
“downsloping, loose, rotten and unstable”
the lake, a basin sculpted by glaciers, dammed by landslide debris from above the valley floor.
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