Waterfalls have a series of parallel ledges and rock islands. Water willow lines shores. There is low flood-battered sycamore on island across river.;Bedrock bluff, just downstream and overlooking falls below the "Big Eddy", where resistant strata form nick point and falls. Here there are ledges interspersed with soil terraces and chutes above the lower cliff along the river. Aspect is hot, dry, southwest. Community is a woodland of junipers with grassy-sedgy understory.
Representativeness
Small patch glade, sampled on exposed spit, continues downstream as more narrow cliff-top glade. Here juniper dominance is in larger contiguous patch. Similar to plot sampled at Harpers Ferry NHP (HAFE.39).