World Famous Jungle Cruise

Within Adventureland sits a tropical rainforest full of exotic animals and beautiful weather.

(The fog’s a type of low-lying stratus cloud formed when  water vapor condenses into the air as tiny liquid water droplets.)

During the mornings fog lifts above the water.  This particular fog is known as stream and is formed from cold air moving over the warm water of the river.  Evaporation from the exposed water is absorbed by the air re-condenses into visible fog.   Wind convergence into an upward motion causing the fog to lift from the surface of the water.

  (This rainbow effect within the rain is formed  when sunlight shines from behind the water at a low altitude angle.)

Rain falls when the amount of moisture in air is the percentage of the total water vapor air can hold.  At a particular air temperature it becomes saturated and forms into a cloud.  Precipitation forms from the collision of rain drops within a cloud.  The droplets keep growing until they reach a mass where they are heavy enough to overcome the force of the wind, and can't stay in the cloud they fall down as rain.

 

(A monocline is step-like fold in rock strata sits on the overhang reacted from the earlier extensional faults lower on the rock formation.)

This zeugen rock sits within the river forming by the processing of erosion and weathering.  Originally flat areas of hard rock are overlying soft rock are caused by wind erosion concentrates a few feet over the ground.  This is also a similar rock pattern that causes waterfalls like Schweitzer Falls on top pf the formation.  Wind speeds increase with height narrowing out the zeugen closer to the bottom.  Chemical weathering at the base is due to the water of the river moving away pieces of the sediment.

The talus cave (which has now become the lion’s den) was formed from the opening between the rocks that fell into a pile.  Caused from chemical and physical weathering and erosion moving the sediment off the cliff the rocks hung from.  Water from the rains can flow into the joints of the cliff and disconnect them from the rock wall.

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Video by ThatDisneyKid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D41zYKVTeCQ&feature=related