30/04/2026
Rising from the frozen wild of the Eastern North Slope, this tight fold stands as a striking expression of Earth’s immense crushing power. Vertical bands of dark shale sweep upward and snap into a sharp curve — enduring signatures of the tectonic collision that buckled the crust millions of years ago.
Forged in the transition from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary, this geological tapestry preserves a powerful story of deformation, where ancient ocean sediments were squeezed like pages in a book to shape a landscape of dramatic verticality.
