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Mt. Cook (Aoraki), New Zealand

Mt. Cook, highest point in New Zealand. Also called Aoraki, it reaches an elevation of 3,724m (12,218 feet) (ID 140128-1)

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Earthquate damage, New Zealand

Earthquake-damaged home on cliff edge, Christchurch, New Zealand. The cliff failed during the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes. (ID: 140127-7)

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Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

Lake Tekapo and southern Alps, New Zealand. Lake Tekapo fills a glacial trough. New Zealand. (ID 140127-60)

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Fountain Formation, Colorado (square)

Tilted Pennsylvanian-Permian sandstone of Fountain Formation, Colorado (131024-28)

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Earthquake-damage. New Zealand

Earthquake-damaged home on cliff edge, Christchurch, New Zealand. The cliff failed during the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes. Note the basalt-filled channel exposed in the cliff face. (ID: 140127-34)

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Tilted Fountain Fm., Colorado

Tilted Pennsylvanian-Permian sandstone of Fountain Formation, Colorado (131024-9)

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Slate of the Galice Formation, OR

Slate of the Galice Formation, near Cave Junction, Oregon (ID: 140119-3)

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Uplifted marine terrace, New Zealand

Houses built on top uplifted marine terrace, Wellington, New Zealand. (ID# 140125-25)

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Mudstone-matrix melange, OR

Mudstone-matrix melange, Sixes River Terrane of the Franciscan Assemblage, Oregon. (ID: 140119-18)

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Stream Cobbles Oregon

Ultramafic cobbles in Rough and Ready Creek, drained from the Smith River Terrane of the Western Klamath Belt, Cave Junction, Oregon. (ID: 140119-12t2)

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Clouds, Forida

Clouds over the Gulf of Mexico, Florida. (ID: 140102-11)

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Fountain Formation, Colorado. (vertical

Pennsylvanian-Permian sandstone of Fountain Formation, Colorado (131024-6)

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Hogbacks of Fountain Formation, Colorado.

Strike valley and hogback eroded into Pennsylvanian-Permian sandstone and conglomerate of Fountain Formation, Colorado (131024-19)

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Fountain Formation, Colorado.

Pennsylvanian-Permian sandstone of Fountain Formation, Colorado (131024-7)

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Mazama Ash overlying basalt, Oregon

Ash from the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Mazama 7700 years ago (which formed Crater Lake) overlies basalt. (130922-108)

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Obsidian, volcanic glass. Oregon.

Obsidian, volcanic glass. Oregon. (130918-8)

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Lake Abert, Oregon –a pluvial lake

Pluvial lakes are those left from the Pleistocene epoch when the climate was wetter. They are now mostly playa lakes. (130922-16)

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Obsidian, volcanic glass. Oregon.

(130918-7)

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Quarried Cinder Cone, Oregon

LIttle Nash Crater, quarried for its cinders. (130901-9)

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Obsidian, volcanic glass. Oregon.

Obsidian, volcanic glass. Oregon. (130918-4)

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Belknap Shield Volcano, Oregon

2000 year old Yapoah basalt lava flow and Belknap shield volcano, near McKenzie Pass, Oregon. (130825-6)

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