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Moraine at Lee Vining Canyon
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 0910 1391 (2010-09-18)Copyright © 2010 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Aug 9, 2010
location
Near Lee Vining (Mono County, California, US)notes Lateral moraine extending from the mouth of Lee Vining Canyon. The moraine was deposited during late Tahoe Stage glaciation, about 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. This moraine terminated abruptly where the Lee Vining Glacier reached the edge of Lake Russell, the huge lake that filled much of this basin at the end of the Pleistocene. The north flank is Mt. Dana is in the upper left; the southwest corner of Mono Lake is in the lower right.keywords: geology, earth science, geomorphology, Pleistocene, Quaternary, glaciation, glacier, moraine
camera Canon 40D, 70mm, f/16, 1/80 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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