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ALASKA
Mendenhall Valley and Auke Lake from above
Mendenhall Glacier in the summer
Mendenhall Glacier in the winter
Mendenhall towers
Juneau Icefield
Herbert Glacier
Juneau Icefield
Avalanche path - Looking from Douglas Island to Juneau
Striation marks - Mendenhall Valley
Bedrock smoothed by past glacial activity - Herbert glacier valley
Outwash plain - Herbert glacier valley
Fresh silty/sandy fluvioglacial sediments - Herbert glacier valley
Initial soil formation on coarse fluvioglacial sediments - Herbert glacier valley
A forest covering a moraine - Herbert glacier valley
An erratic covered by a thick moss carpet
Sequence of coarse/fine sand alluvial deposits - Eagle river
Sandy alluvial deposits - Eagle river
I will repost this photo to keep track on that tree ;)
Thick forest soil
A well-developed Andic Haplocryod formed from a metavolcanic rock
Robust root system
Massive uprooting
A very common feature in these forests, usually taking off the first few centimeters of soil.
Montain hemlock anchoring on a boulder!
Coastal erosion
Physical weathering - rock cracking
Redoximorphic features - Iron linning on larger pores and horizon transitions.
Redoximorphic features - Iron precipitation on former root channels
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