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Campito Mountain (California)
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 0811 2859 (2011-08-24)Copyright © 2011 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Aug 7, 2011
location
Along White Mountain Road. Inyo National Forest (Mono County, California, US)notes View of Campito Mountain (elevation 11,543 ft.) looking to the southwest. This peak in the White Mountains is composed primarily of the hard, resistant sandstone and shale of the Campito Formation, deposited during the early Cambrian nearly 600 million years ago. These rocks are among the oldest in California.keywords: geology, earth science, Paleozoic, Cambrian, geomorphology
camera Canon 40D, 35mm, f/14, 1/125 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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