Sunday, September 20, 2009

Your geomorphology assignment...


for today is to consider the difference between pediments and alluvial fans. The image shown above (click to enlarge) is a pediment south of Wellington, Utah along US Route 6 (seen at left.) Those are the Book Cliffs on the right side of the image, containing Late Cretaceous mudstones and sandstones comprising the Mesa Verde Group.

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