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Page 341
... valley , I attempted to unravel Nature's handiwork , which I knew was recorded in the landscape . I saw waterfalls leaping from valleys which seemed to end in mid- air ; I could see the tiny Merced River more than 3,000 feet below me ...
... valley , I attempted to unravel Nature's handiwork , which I knew was recorded in the landscape . I saw waterfalls leaping from valleys which seemed to end in mid- air ; I could see the tiny Merced River more than 3,000 feet below me ...
Page 342
... valley he found remnants of earlier valleys once occupied by ancestral streams . On the granite walls that rise almost vertically from the valley floor he detected scratches produced by glacier ice . All around him were the tools of ...
... valley he found remnants of earlier valleys once occupied by ancestral streams . On the granite walls that rise almost vertically from the valley floor he detected scratches produced by glacier ice . All around him were the tools of ...
Page 343
... Valley . During the last stage the terminal margin of the ice lay just west of El Capitan ( Plate VII , upper ) . The valley was deep- ened and the and steep walls were resmoothed repolished . The vegetation at this time , ap ...
... Valley . During the last stage the terminal margin of the ice lay just west of El Capitan ( Plate VII , upper ) . The valley was deep- ened and the and steep walls were resmoothed repolished . The vegetation at this time , ap ...
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