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Ripple Marks in Mudstone / Death Valley
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1213 0992 (2013-12-09)Copyright © 2013 Ron Wolf
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date of photo Nov 24, 2012
location
Death Valley National Park (Inyo County, California, US)notes These ripples were made by the action of water at the edge of a shallow, muddy lake during the Pliocene about 3-5 million years ago. They are seen here in an oucrop of the Copper Canyon Formation. These beds, originally horizontal, have been tilted by the uplift of the Black Mountains.keywords: earth science, geology, Pliocene, Tertiary, deposition
camera Canon EOS 7D, 100mm, f/8.0, 1/1000 sec
photo category: Misc. - geology
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