High Sierra Erosion (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

University of Wyoming

High Sierra Erosion (2 of 2)

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Claire Lukens hikes up into the study site at Inyo Creek, in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Large sediment (some as large a house-sized boulders) come mostly from the upper elevations, where steep, bare, bedrock slopes erode quickly.

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Leonard Sklar Photo

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