A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Glacial valley and tarn on the way to Muir Pass, near Mt. Whitney, Sierra Nevada Mountains |
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| Description | This broad valley was carved by a glacier. It is surrounded and floored by granite bedrock and bolders and contains many small tarns. The rocks shown in this picture are part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. It is really not one intrusive body but instead is a Mesozoic aged collection of granitic plutons. |
| Geologic province | Sierra Nevada |
| Location | USA ▹ California. View from the John Muir Trail. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2002-01-27. |
| Collection | JMT-22. |
| Key words | glacial valley, Sierra Nevada |
| Tech details | 606 KB. Vista. Olympus LT. |
| GeoDIL number | 2205 |
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