West across the canyon of Marble Fork Kaweah River. Sequoia National Park, California. 1935.
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1935
Summary
Sequoia National Park, California. West across the canyon of Marble Fork Kaweah River, showing one of the great cliffs of white marble from which the stream takes its name. The cliff is cut from a vertical bed of marble transected by the canyon. To the left of the marble bed are thin beds of various dark-hued metamorphic rocks. All of these strata are the stubs of a huge fold that probably once rose to a height of several thousand feet, but whether the upper portion of the fold (anticline) lay to the right or left is unknown. Circa 1935.
Summary
Sequoia National Park, California. West across the canyon of Marble Fork Kaweah River, showing one of the great cliffs of white marble from which the stream takes its name. The cliff is cut from a vertical bed of marble transected by the canyon. To the left of the marble bed are thin beds of various dark-hued metamorphic rocks. All of these strata are the stubs of a huge fold that probably once rose to a height of several thousand feet, but whether the upper portion of the fold (anticline) lay to the right or left is unknown. Circa 1935.
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