(Photo by C.C. Plummer)
Glaciers
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Glacier in
Antarctica. Icebergs floating in ocean in background.
(Photo by C.C. Plummer) |
Deserts
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Double
Arch in desert landscape of Arches National Park.
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Monument Valley,
Arizona & Utah. Click on image for enlargement |
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| Wind moves
sand to form a sand dune. Death Valley, CA. Photo by C.C. Plummer |
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California
coastline. Uplifted, former wave-cut terrace and present
coastline, showing erosional features. (Photo by C.C. Plummer) |
| The San Andreas
Fault has displaced a stream channel. (Photo by C.C. Plummer) |
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Folded bedrock in Spain. (Photo by C.C. Plummer) |
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Olive
View Hospital, destroyed in the 1971 San Fernando, CA earthquake(Photo by C. C. Plummer) Click inside the blue frame for enlarged photo |
| Slice through
the earth (From Plummer, McGeary, Carlson, copyright WCB/McGraw-Hill) |
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"Black Smoker". Very hot water full of metalic sulfides spewed out into ocean at a mid-oceanic ridge. (Photo US Geologic Survey) |
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| Diagram showing
convergent plate boundary (copyright WCB/McGraw-Hill) |
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The Peruvian
Andes, second highest mountain range in the world.
(photo by C.C. Plummer) |
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Bingham Canyon open pit copper mine, Utah. Largest human made hole in the world. It is 1/2 mile deep. A full-sized train gives an idea of scale. Photo by C. C. Plummer |
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