A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Marie Lake, Sierra Nevada Mountains |
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| Description | Marie Lake is a tarn perched in a high glacial valley. Boulders and underlying bedrock are all granite, part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. The batholith, which forms the core of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, consists of a series of Mesozoic aged plutons, not a single intrusive body. |
| Geologic province | Sierra Nevada |
| Location | USA ▹ California. View from the John Muir Trail. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2002-01-27. |
| Collection | JMT-27. |
| Key words | tarn, Sierra Nevada |
| Tech details | 489 KB. Vista. Olympus LT. |
| GeoDIL number | 2207 |
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