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Glacial Moraines at Bloody Canyon and Sawmill Canyon (California)
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 0710 2686 (2010-07-31)Copyright © 2010 Ron Wolf
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date of photo Jul 26, 2010
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Inyo National Forest. South of Lee Vining (Mono County, California, US)notes This view of the Sierra Crest, looking to the west, shows a series of Pleistocene glacial moraines. The glacially carved U-shaped valley toward the right is Bloody Canyon, which extends downward from Mono Pass. The lateral moraines in the right center were deposited during late Tahoe Stage glaciation, about 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. These Tahoe Stage moraines cut across older, more eroded lateral moraines, extending to the left, that were deposited during the Mono Basin Stage, about 120,000 years ago. The glaciers ended at the edge of Lake Russell, a huge Pleistocene lake that extended across much of the Mono Basin. This view looks across part of the old lake bed. The peak in the center is Mt. Lewis, elev. 12,296 ft.keywords: erosion, glacier, glacial, glaciation, moraine, nature, Pleistocene, Sierra. geology, geomorphology, earth science
camera Canon 40D, 30mm, f/13, 1/100 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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