Name: 63-VBK-03
Latitude: N37°52.619'
Longitude: W119°23.680'
Elevation: 2621m
Location: Pothole
GPS Accuracy: 3m
Direction: 120
Photo Date: 7/10/2008
Time: 10am

 
 
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Vale (1987) Reference: N/A
Vale (1994) Reference: 3
Photo Year: 1987

 
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USGS Reference:
Photographer: F.E. Matthes
Year: 1917


Caption: Yosemite National Park, California. Pothole Dome, a roche moutonnee of massive granite at the lower end of Tuolumne Meadows. The rock is characterized by many discontinuous, horizontal fractures which have somewhat promoted the reduction of the ridge by ice. Circa 1917.

 
Link to original USGS photo: http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/htmlorg/lpb026/land/mfe00467.jpg
 
Photo Credits: N.Wasserman (2008); Vale & Vale (1994). University of Utah Press; USGS
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