A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Eroded walls of a glacial Valley near Glen Pass, Sierra Nevada Mountains |
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| Description | Moving ice has carved the granitic valley wall into a smooth curved shape. This sort of erosion is typical in glacial terranes; valleys with this shape do not occur due to erosion by water. The rocks seen here are part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, a series of plutons that core the Sierra Nevada Mountains. |
| Geologic province | Sierra Nevada |
| Location | USA ▹ California. View from the John Muir Trail. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2002-01-27. |
| Collection | JMT-14. |
| Key words | Sierra Nevada, glacial, erosion |
| Tech details | 491 KB. Vista. Olympus LT. |
| GeoDIL number | 2201 |
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