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Townsley Lake (10396'), a beautiful alpine lake sitting below blue sky, clouds and Fletcher Peak (right), lies amid the Cathedral Range of glacier-sculpted granite peaks in Yosemite's high country, near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp.
Image ID: 23206
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Perseid Meteor Shower and Milky Way, Andromeda Galaxy and the Pleides Cluster, over Half Dome and Yosemite National Park.
Image ID: 28746
Location: Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Mariner Mountain, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, part of Strathcona Provincial Park, located 36 km (22 mi) north of Tofino. It is 1,771 m (5,810 ft) high, snow covered year-round and home to several glaciers.
Image ID: 21072
Location: Mariner Mountain, Strathcona Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada |
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North Peak (12,242') rises over lower Conness Lake, its water colored deep blue-green by glacier runoff. Mount Conness (12,589') towers in the upper left. Hoover Wilderness, Inyo National Forest.
Image ID: 36427
Location: Conness Lakes Basin, Hoover Wilderness, California, USA
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Half Dome and nighttime stars, viewed from Glacier Point.
Image ID: 27951
Location: Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California, USA
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Half Dome and the Glacier Point Road, Yosemite National Park.
Image ID: 36380
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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Panorama of Nameless Lake (10709'), surrounded by glacier-sculpted granite peaks of the Cathedral Range, near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp.
Image ID: 23211
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA
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Mountains, glaciers and ocean, the rugged and beautiful topography of South Georgia Island.
Image ID: 24580
Location: Grytviken, South Georgia Island | Zodiacal Light and planet Jupiter in the northeastern horizon, above Half Dome and the Yosemite high country.
Image ID: 28745
Location: Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Sunset over the Yosemite High Country, people on the precipice at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park.
Image ID: 36394
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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Self portrait, panorama of Exit Glacier. Exit Glacier, one of 35 glaciers that are spawned by the enormous Harding Icefield, is the only one that can be easily reached on foot.
Image ID: 19112
Location: Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, USA
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Thunderstorm Forming over Half Dome and the Yosemite High Country, from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park.
Image ID: 36362
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 7209 x 21430 |
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Glacial erratic boulders atop Olmsted Point, with the massive granite monoliths Half Dome and Clouds Rest in the background. Erratics are huge boulders left behind by the passing of glaciers which carved the granite surroundings into their present-day form. When the glaciers melt, any boulders and other geologic material that it was carrying are left in place, sometimes many miles from their original location.
Image ID: 23264
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Hikers ascend the Skyline Trail below Nisqually Glacier and Mount Rainier.
Image ID: 13889
Location: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA | Mount Rainier rises above Governors Ridge, Emmons Glacier.
Image ID: 13874
Location: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA |
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Panorama of the Minarets at sunrise, near Mammoth Mountain. The Minarets are a series of seventeen jagged peaks in the Ritter Range, west of Mammoth Mountain in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. These basalt peaks were carved by glaciers on both sides of the range. The highest of the Minarets stands 12,281 feet above sea level.
Image ID: 19126
Location: Mammoth Lakes, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 3249 x 29914 |
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Panorama of Exit Creek, early morning, summer, as it washes over the flood plain below Exit Glacier.
Image ID: 19109
Location: Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, USA
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Clouds Rest viewed from Olmsted Point. Clouds Rest is one of the most massive -- if not the singlemost massive -- granite monoliths in the world. A vast lobe of Mesozoic-era granodiorite magma cooled to rock and was gradually uplifted to its present altitude of 9926 ft. Later, glaciers cut it into its present shape.
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Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Glacial erratics atop Olmsted Point. Erratics are huge boulders left behind by the passing of glaciers which carved the granite surroundings into their present-day form.
Image ID: 09966
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Glacier, Skaftafell / Vatnajokull National Park, Southern Iceland.
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Location: Iceland |
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North Peak (12242'), Conness Lake and green glacial meltwater, Hoover Wilderness.
Image ID: 31059
Location: Conness Lakes Basin, Hoover Wilderness, California, USA
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Glacier, Skaftafell / Vatnajokull National Park, Southern Iceland.
Image ID: 35751
Location: Iceland | Glacier, Skaftafell / Vatnajokull National Park, Southern Iceland.
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Location: Iceland | Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled.
Image ID: 23266
Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA |
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Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled.
Image ID: 23267
Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA | Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled.
Image ID: 23285
Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA | South Georgia Island coastline, showing the island's characteristic rugged topography. 56% of the island is covered by 161 glaciers, which have created numerous large bays and inlets that provide excellent habitat for marine animals and seabirds. Mountains meet the sea in steep-sided seacliffs covered with sparse vegetation. The highest point on South Georgia Island is Mt. Paget at 2,915m.
Image ID: 24317
Location: South Georgia Island |
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Cloud's Rest at sunset, viewed from Olmsted Point. Clouds Rest is one of the most massive -- if not the singlemost massive -- granite monoliths in the world. A vast lobe of Mesozoic-era granodiorite magma cooled to rock and was gradually uplifted to its present altitude of 9926 ft. Later, glaciers cut it into its present shape.
Image ID: 25761
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Half Dome at sunrise, viewed from Glacier Point.
Image ID: 27737
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Half Dome and pre-dawn light, sunrise, viewed from Glacier Point.
Image ID: 27739
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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