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Salt precipitation, Utah
Precipitation of salt along edge of lake in Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah (5D-4751)
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Precipitation of salt along edge of lake in Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah (5D-4788)
Download ImageEarthquake Damage, Wells, Nevada
Buildings destroyed by 2008 Earthquake in Old-town District of Wells, Nevada. (5D-4682)
Download ImageFault-block mountain and spring, Oregon.
Abrupt fault-bounded east side of Steens Mountain, SE Oregon and water from spring in Alvord Desert. (5D-4485)
Download ImageAlvord Desert, Oregon
Woman walking on playa surface of Alvord Desert, a pluvial lake in SE Oregon. (5D-4421)
Download ImageGrowing from a crack in the rock.
Pine tree growing out of a crack in granite, Stone Mountain, Georgia. (5D-2862)
Download ImageVehicle tracks on playa, SE Oregon.
Off road vehicle tracks on Alvord Desert, a pluvial lake in SE Oregon. (5D-4395)
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Sahalie Falls, Oregon
Sahalie Falls, a waterfall near the headwaters of the McKenzie River, Oregon (5D-4336)
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Sahalie Falls, a waterfall near the headwaters of the McKenzie River, Oregon (5D-4334)
Download ImageAngular unconformity, Mojave Desert, CA
Angular unconformity between nearly flat 4Ma Funeral Basalt overlying tilted and faulted Furnace Creek and Artist Drive Formations. Mining camp of Ryan in center. near Death Valley National Park, California. (5D-2933)
Download ImageRotational normal faults in gneiss
Rotational normal faults in gneiss –the faults terminate downward into a ductile shear zone in marble. (5D-2917)
Download ImagePotholes in granite.
Wate-filled potholes, formed from weathering, in granite, Stone Mountain, Georgia. (5D-2851)
Download ImageWeathering pits and pothole in granite.
Weathering pits and water-filled pothole in granite, Stone Mountain, Georgia. (5D-2861)
Download ImageWeathering pits and pothole in granite. (vertical)
Weathering pits and water-filled pothole in granite, Stone Mountain, Georgia. (5D-2860)
Download ImageGraded bed, sandstone and shale
Graded bed, sandstone and shale. About 2 inches from bottom to top. (5D-2450)
Download ImageSkolithos tubes in quartzite
Skolithos tubes in Cambrian quartzite, Mojave Desert. The rock unit is the Zabriskie Quartzite; bedding dips to the left, Skolithos, which are vertical worm(?) burrows are perpendicular to bedding. Photo is about 1.5 meters across. (5D-1306)
Download ImageHand samples of dolostone (dolomite)
Hand specimens of dolostone (dolomite). (5D-2825)
Download ImageBalanced rocks (vertical)
Balanced rocks on coastline, San Francisco Bay, California. (5D-2489)
Download ImageDeath Valley salt pan (vertical)
Salt flats of Death Valley National Park, California. The polygons are formed by precipitation of new salt in shrinkage cracks. (5D-1241)
Download ImageOffset stream channel in Carrizo Plain
Stream channel offset right-laterally by the San Andreas fault at Wallace Creek in the Carrizo Plain. (5D-1394)
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