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Painted Wall. Black Canyon of The Gunnison National Park, Colorado. 1962.

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1962

Summary

Album caption and index card: Greatest cliff in Colorado, Painted Wall, averages about 2,250 feet from rim to river. Cliff is carved from gneiss interlaced with pegmatite dikes. Deep fissures to the right of center are controlled by weathering along joints. The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument. Grizzly Ridge quadrangle, Montrose County, Colorado. 1962. Note: Published as frontispiece in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1191. 1965.

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U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Hansen, Wallace R.

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name photoLibrary hwr00124
number photoLibrary 15338
batch photoLibrary batch68
number_in_book photoLibrary 124

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