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Surf and sand dunes, Oregon Coast

Aerial view of incoming waves, shoreface, and asymmetric beach dunes on the Oregon Coast, just north of Newport. (100813-6)

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Oregon Coast Range

Aerial view of Oregon Coast Range (100723-185)

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Tidal flats and channels, Tillamook Bay, Oregon

Aerial view of tidal flats and channels, Tillamook Bay, Oregon coast. (100723-173) mudflat

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Tidal flats and channels, Tillamook Bay, Oregon

Aerial view of tidal flats and channels, Tillamook Bay, Oregon coast. (100723-158)

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Incoming waves and houses. Oregon (vertical)

Aerial view of incoming waves and houses. Oregon Coast. (100723-131)

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Cape Meares, Oregon

Aerial view of Cape Meares, Oregon, enshrouded by clouds. The headland, the one behind it, and the seastacks, consist of flows of the Columbia River Basalt Group. Netarts Bay and Spit lie in the background. (100723-124)

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Tidal migratory bedforms, Oregon Coast

Aerial view of tidal migratory bedforms at the mouth of Nestucca Bay on the Oregon Coast (100723-115)

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Netarts Bay and Spit, Oregon Coast

Aerial view of Netarts Bay and Spit, Oregon Coast. Note the partially submerged sand bars at the mouth of the bay. 100723-114)

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Estuary and spit, Oregon Coast (vertical)

Aerial view of the Salmon River estuary and adjoining spit, Oregon Coast, (100723-56)

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Pocket Beach and headlands, Oregon

Aerial view of pocket sandy beach and rocky headlands, Oregon Coast. (100723-45)

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100723-38

Aerial view of subaqueous bedforms and dunes at entrance to Siletz Bay estuary, Oregon coast near Lincoln City. Siletz River in background. Salishan Spit and breaking waves in foreground. (100723-38)

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Protected harbor at Depoe Bay, Oregon

Aerial view of protected Inner Harbor at Depoe Bay, Oregon, with coastline of Wanapum Basalt –CRBG. (100723-23)

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Yaquina Head, Oregon Coast

Lavas of the Wanapum Basalt of the Miocene Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) make up Yaquina Head, just north of Newport, Oregon. (10723-19)

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Yaquina Head, Oregon Coast

Aerial view of Yaquina Head. Lavas of the Wanapum Basalt of the Miocene Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) make up Yaquina Head, just north of Newport, Oregon. (10723-16)

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Pluvial Smoke Creek Desert, Nevada

Aerial view of evaporite-covered pluvial Smoke Creek Desert, Nevada, which spilled into Pleistocene Lake Lahontan. Looking northward towards Black Rock Desert. (090622-33)

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Steens Mountain, Oregon (vertical)

Aerial view of Steens Mountain, a tilted fault block in SE Oregon, at sunrise. (090121-2787)

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Basement and cover, Front Range, Colorado

Aerial view of the Precambrian basement and Paleozoic-Mesozoic sedimentary cover rocks (which form the hogback ridges), Front Range near Loveland, Colorado (090121-98)

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Atmospheric inversion, Salt Lake City, UT

Aerial view of Atmospheric inversion against the Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah. (090121-077)

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Storage tanks and oil refinery, Martinez, CA

Aerial view of storage tanks and oil refinery, Martinez, California (5D-0311)

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Right-lateral fault, southern Nevada

Aerial view of Right-lateral Strike-slip fault, southern Nevada (SrF-38)

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Chief Mountain Klippe, Montana (Pan)

Chief Mountain (right), a klippe of Proterozoic rock of the Belt Supergroup (Altyn Formation) emplaced by the Lewis Thrust over Cretaceous rock (outcrops just above the trees), Glacier National Park, Montana. Note also the structurally higher thrust just over halfway up the mountain. (090711-2)

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