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Alluvial Fan at Horseshoe Park
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1011 0718 (2011-10-13)Copyright © 2011 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Sep 16, 2011
location
Horseshoe Park. Rocky Mountain National Park (Larimer County, Colorado, US)notes This alluvial fan, spilling onto the floor of a glacial valley, was created by a flash flood in 1982. The flood was caused by the failure of an earthen dam five miles upstream.keywords: geology, earth science, geomorphology, erosion, deposition, flood
camera Canon EOS 7D, 70mm, f/16, 1/50 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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