| Prof. Glazner's First Year Seminar, Fall 2003 |
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Geology of Eastern California |
Wednesday we drove to Yosemite National Park to study the effects of recent glaciation.
Note: these are the last pictures we'll be able to post until our return, as we will be heading to a high-altitude research station without internet access for Thursday and Friday.
Mt. Tom and Wheeler Crest, looking out the left side of the van. Note the smoke drifting around Mt. Tom (left). It blew up to the Bishop area from a late-season fire in the southern Sierra Nevada.
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Looking across Long Valley caldera, now home to many cows.
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Strange tendrils of smoke from the southern Sierra fire drifted across Mammoth Mountain. It looked very weird.
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On top of Lembert Dome.
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View from the top of Lembert Dome. Even with the smoke, the view is very nice. We're looking down the direction the ice flowed. At its peak it topped Lembert Dome and was thousands of feet thick.
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Ashley and Macallagh recounting the glacial history of Yosemite.
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Hiking down from the summit.
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