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Wheeler Peak and Mount Patterson / Sweetwater Mountains (California)
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1012 1948 (2012-10-26)Copyright © 2012 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Jun 28, 2012
location
Toiyabe National Forest. Near Bridgeport (Mono County, California, US)notes Wheeler Peak (elev. 11,664 ft.) and Mount Patterson (11,673 ft.) are the two most prominent peaks in the Sweetwater Mountains along the California-Nevada border. The core of the range is composed of Cretaceous granitic plutons similar to those of the Sierra 20 miles to the west. These colorful barren peaks are the result of late Miocene rhyolitic intrusions in the granite core that created rhyolite domes and clastic flows.keywords: geology, earth science, geomorphology, Miocene, Cretaceous, rhyolite, granite, intrusion, volcanism
camera Canon EOS 7D, 70 mm, f/9.0, 1/800 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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