Mono Lake: Great Basin Edge
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Description: Information on Mono Lake, California. Includes volcanic history, formation of tufa, and other information on the lake and its environs.
Visiting school groups often observe scientists in the field. Here, a newly-banded Violet-green Swallow is released. The Geologic Big Picture: Great Basin Edge A sail on the lake develops a group of pictures of rare beauty and grandeur. Long ranks of snowy swans on the dark water; clouds of ducks enveloped in silvery spangles. The mighty barren Sierra rising abruptly from the water to a height of seven thousand feet, and stretching north and south for twenty miles with rows of snowy peaks. Ranges of cumulus clouds swelling in massive bosses of pearl--cloud mountains and rock mountains equally grand...
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