The Geologic Story of Mount Rainier
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The Geologic Story of Mount Rainier is a work by Dwight R. Crandell. The title page describes it as a look at the geologic past of one of America’s most scenic volcanoes. The text says Eunice Lake, northwest of Mount Rainier, lies in a small bedrock basin that was scoured out by a glacier between about 15,000 and 20,000 years ago.
The text says ice-clad Mount Rainier, towering over the landscape of western Washington, ranks with Fuji-yama in Japan, Popocatepetl in Mexico, and Vesuvius in Italy among the great volcanoes of the world. The text says crevasses are a glacier’s most awesome features and a constant hazard for climbers, and that they form where adjacent parts of a glacier are moving at different speeds. The text says avalanches and mudflows like those described are normal events at Mount Rainier and are expected to happen again in the future.
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- Author
- Dwight R. Crandell
- Pages
- 56
- Language
- English
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- Popular Science
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