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Up They Came Photo Gallery
Radiolarian Chert
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Tectonic Taffy
As the front of the Kenai Mountains formed, it acted
as a gigantic snowplow. Thin layers from the oceanic
plate were scraped away and folded up like ribbons
of taffy to form the base of the overlying mountains.
This distinctive radiolarian or banded chert forms
the cliffs along the water's edge of Kachemak Bay's
south shore.
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Pillow Basalt
© Janet R. Klein |
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Bubbling Magma
A line of rocks and islands near Kachemak
Bay's south shore formed when magma infusions deep
within the earth bulged upward between the Farallon
and North American Plates. The resulting huge pillows
of basalt are visible at Gull Island, Sixty Foot Rock,
and Yukon and surrounding islands.
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